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McCain Does the Right Thing on Racial Preferences
The Corner on National Review Online — Sunday, July 27, 2008 [image] McCain Does the Right Thing on Racial Preferences [Roger Clegg] Senator John McCain said today that he supports the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative, which would ban preferences based on race, ethnicity, and sex in the state s public contracting, education (including university admissions), and employment programs. Essentially identical initiatives will be before voters this fall in Colorado and Nebraska, and have been enacted in California, Washington, and most recently Michigan. Disappointingly, Senator Barack Obama immediately ...

McCain Endores Equal Treatment - FINALLY
La Shawn Barber's Corner — ... Asked point-blank whether he supported the ballot initiative, McCain said, “Yes, I do…I’ve always opposed quotas.” (Source) ...

McCain Opposes Affirmative Action
TalkLeft — ... Continuing his pronounced move to the extreme right, John McCain announced his support for an Arizona initiative to ban affirmative action: ...

Reporting on "Affirmative Action"
The Corner on National Review Online — ... stories on McCain's support for Ward Connerly's initiative to end state-sponsored racial preferences in Arizona. An additional point: Both stories claim that the initiative would "ban affirmative action." That's not true. Many people understand "affirmative action" to include measures to expand applicant pools, rather than put a thumb on the scale for underrepresented minorities, and the initiative would not bar such measures. But even if you leave aside the imprecision of the phrase "affirmative action," the verb "ban" is inappropriate here because the initiative would leave ...

7/29: Yes We Kaine?
Blogometer — ... McCain: "...they say that. But one, it didn't happen before, and two, we wouldn't let it happen. We wouldn't let it -- Americans wouldn't let them absorb that." Stephanopoulos: "How would you prevent that?" McCain: "We would make them shamed into it. We, of course, know how to -- American public opinion. And we would penalize them, if necessary. But they wouldn't. They would pass it on." MCCAIN V: Please Make This An Issue, John! Conservative bloggers are pleased that McCain has endorsed a ballot initiative that would ban affirmative action programs in AZ , even though ...