A Manipulative GOP Plays Another Race Card

You'd think the National Republican Committee would have learned its lesson about the nominating Convention and race when officials disclosed a few days ago they were overtly aiming their core messages at disaffected white voters - - background, here - - but NBC Evening News has just reported that Convention officials have seated delegations near the front pf the hall and TV coverage from the small, but relatively diverse territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico.

So there will be some relatively non-white faces on TV tonight, except those delegates from territories and not one of the 50 states of the District of Columbia cannot vote in the November election for the candidates they are nominating.