The only thing Herman Cain has going for him is that Barack Obama was elected the first black president of the United States.
So Serious, Yet Such a Joke
Unfortunately for Cain, history shows that such a “precedent” doesn’t extend to black Republicans.
In the last one hundred years, only six black Republicans have been elected to national public office. Only five of the 101 black members of Congress elected in the last century were Republicans, and only one black Republican has been elected to the Senate in the last century.
Even on the state level, the first black Republican governor, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback of Louisiana, was also “the last black Republican governor.” Pinchback served a grand total of 35 days while (white) incumbent Gov. Henry Warmoth battled impeachment charges. And though Pinckney gained the title of the “first black Republican governor,” he was never actually elected.
This is not a trend that is likely to be broken in the 2012 election, mainly because the American people have a more favorable view of the racist, inarticulate and intellectually vapid Texan, Rick Perry, and the flip-flopping Mormon, Mitt Romney, than they do of Cain.
Arguably, the only reason Cain is in third place at all is that the other six Republican presidential candidates include (in order of their poll ranking): a philandering asshole; a pro-prostitution, anti-everything isolationist Libertarian; a nightmare in fake eyelashes; an advocate of banning blowjobs; another Mormon who ranks below Tim Pawlenty on the excitability index; and Gary Johnson, who is…uh…Who is Gary Johnson?
