Minority Republicans have blocked Democratic initiatives on health care and other domestic issues.
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You'll notice that he didn't attend the NAACP conference last year as a candidate for the GOP nomination, and he didn't participate in a debate on minorityissues.
John Mueller, of America's University of Rochester, argues that democracy has had a good, if imperfect, record of dealing with minorityissues, particularly when compared with other forms of government.
She is widely published and is an international public policy speaker on gender and minority equality issues and appears regularly in print media and TV.