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Indian-Americans Gaining Clout in U.S. Politics
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyROCKVILLE, Maryland -- On a recent October evening, Rajeev Sharma told President Barack Obama and 50 other guests how his late father -- who left behind a wealthy family in India to study in Missouri -- took a job mucking out cow barns during graduate school in the 1960s, and that his father-in-law arrived in this country a decade later with $8 in his pocket. "They worked hard, became Americans, and now they're meeting the leader of the free world at the home of their children," an emotional Sharma said to Obama, as his wife, Seema, her parents and his widowed mother looked on. By evening's ...
Nikki Haley's Win: A Victory For Assimilation, Not Acceptance
By David Gibson - Politics DailyMany conservatives and Christians are touting Nikki Haley's convincing win to be the GOP candidate for governor in South Carolina as proof, along with Bobby Jindal's successful run for Louisiana governor in 2007, that both Republicans and the South are going post-racial, and that these Indian-American pols show how open the party really is. "For the GOP, this is the best case scenario," said David Brody, White House correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network, Pat Robertson's Virginia-based news station. "You have a Christian, Indian-American woman representing your party in a state ...
Haley Wins GOP Nod for Governor in SC
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBIA, S.C. (June 22) -- In a clear sign of the South's racial progress, Republicans overwhelmingly chose Nikki Haley, an Indian-American woman, to run for governor in South Carolina and easily nominated Tim Scott, in line to become the former Confederate state's first black GOP congressman in more than a century. Six-term Republican Rep. Bob Inglis fell to prosecutor Trey Gowdy, making him the 5th House or Senate incumbent to stumble this year. In North Carolina, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall won the Democratic nomination to challenge GOP Sen. Richard Burr in the fall. And Utah ...
Nikki Haley in GOP Governor Runoff in SC
By not in system - AOL News(June 22) -- The Tea Party, Sarah Palin, an Indian-American woman running for governor, and a black man on the Republican ticket in the Deep South? It's all coming together Tuesday in the state of South Carolina, where runoff primaries will determine Republican candidates for governor and Congress. ...
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