President Obama won a second term last week, but it wasn’t a great week for other African-American candidates.
Despite Obama’s big win, there remain no black senators, only one African-American was even nominated for major statewide office, and black candidates lost seven of eight competitive House races, six of them by very close margins.
The end result: the number of African-Americans in the House will likely remain the same in 2013 as it was this Congress.
As of this
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