Meet Mia Love. You’ll be seeing a lot more of the Republicans’ first black congresswoman.

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[Raymann]

For at least half a century, the party of Lincoln has battled charges that it is racist, sexist and anti-immigrant.

Today, voters from a conservative state made those arguments a little bit harder to make. In Utah, Mia Love became the first black Republican woman — and first Haitian American — elected to Congress.

For the GOP — a house divided that faces significant demographic hurdles to winning the White House in 2016 even as it celebrates President Obama’s shellacking — this was huge. A party threatened with extinction among African Americans and immigrants now has someone to brag about in Washington. In a wave election less about fresh Republican ideas than fervid disapproval of all things presidential, Love’s compelling personal story is an oasis. She’s not just a black face in what’s often described as a party full of angry old white men. She’s a path forward.

[donaldo]

Well done Mia. Just what the doctor ordered.

[elhombrelibre]

It was a wonderful night with Mia's win and Senator Tim Scott's in South Carolina. The canard that whites won't vote for blacks was again proved false. We'll vote for people without regard to color as long as that vote is a vote for responsible, competent, constitutional government. Many of us won't vote for Democrats regardless of color when the that vote is a vote for irresponsible, incompetent, unconstitutional government.

[grania]

There are other black congresswoman. Mia Love is the first Republican black congresswoman, and she's the first Haitian American HOR rep from either party.

She's crushed a lot of stereotypes....the old fashioned real American way.

[Sicon]

And yes, I know J.C. Watts is no longer in Congress. So, let's throw Tim Scott in there instead. And hey, didn't Scott win in one of those former Confederate states? You know, the ones Mary Landrieu tells us are so racist?

It clearly never occurs to these people that maybe it is their policies/ideologies that cause people to win or lose elections? I have a hard time imagining what it is like to see the world as they do, through the prism of identity politics.

[donaldo]

Yes indeed. And also the images of Brian Sandoval and Susana Martinez. No race baiters or poverty pimps need apply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susana_Mart%C3%ADnez

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Sandoval

[sockmonkey]

Will Hurd (R) just beat incumbent Pete Gallegos (D) in TX 23rd Congressional District. Hurd is bi-racial. Mother, white, Father, black. I doubt anyone even knew or cared, but on the local news all of a sudden, he is being described as “the first African American to win TX 23”..

[Servant of the Cross]

MIA!

[InterceptPoint]

Mia Love, Congresswoman. What a nice thing to wake up to on this Wednesday morning. You are going to just love this gal.

[txrefugee]

Terrific young Christian woman! We were praying for Mia and now will pray that she will be blessed with success.

[winner3000]

“She’s not just a black face in what’s often described [unfairly by the Washington Post] as a party full of angry old white men. “

There. I fixed that.

[PapaBear3625]

Mia Love won Utah's 4th Congressional District, which is 86% white.

Allen West represented Florida's 22nd Congressional district, which is 82% white.

J C Watts represented Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District, which is 80% white.

I see a pattern here. A black Republican candidate can win in a predominantly white district, but no Republican of any color will ever win in a predominantly black district.

[petercooper]

Awesome!

[Terry L Smith]

AT LAST!! AN ANTI-SHEILA JACKSON LEE WHO SPEAKs REAL ENGLISH!!!

[randita]

A party threatened with extinction among African Americans and immigrants now has someone to brag about in Washington.

This is so condescending. I'm sick to death of identity politics. Congresswoman Love is a love and determined young lady who deserves better than to be referred to as part of a quota system.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Nice!

[nfldgirl]

Exactly! Do NOT forget Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina! Such a gracious, humble, honest, caring servent of the people who epitomizes the kind of statesmen we need in Washington taking care of the nation’s business. May God bless them both, Senator Scott and Congresswomen Mia Love!

[Heart of Georgia]

“identity politics”

I don’t understand the mindset, either.

All I know is what I’ve observed about the democrats:

They love power, not country. The only way they can keep power is by dividing the US into groups.

Then they run around the country, meeting with each group (Hispanics, blacks, homosexuals, etc.) telling them what they want to hear — that their group is the most important.

[Zenjitsuman]

Obama hasn’t done anything for blacks economic interests.

In fact Obama wants to have black laborers face a wave of 30 million more low income earners wanting to take away jobs in the black communities.

[nuconvert]

” We’ll vote for people without regard to color ..”

As opposed to Dems who vote BECAUSE of the color of a person’s skin. After all, that’s how we got Obama

[mrsmel]

Don’t you just love the way they lay the premise that Republicans “have been battling charges”, as if those charges just materialised out of nowhere, and the media looks up and whistles?