AFRICAN-American, Latino and youth votes have been largely credited for helping propel Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States. Women voters, however, also figured prominently in Obama’s victory as 56 percent of women who voted in the November 4 elections cast their votes for him.
Meanwhile, efforts by the Republican Party to woo the votes of women, particularly those who supported Senator Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries, by choosing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate only proved to be disastrous. Exit polls showed that four in 10 voters overall were influenced into voting for the Democratic ticket by the selection of Palin as the GOP’s vice-presidential nominee.
At the Oakland Convention Center, and in many other places across America, women of all color celebrated Obama’s historic victory with tears and chants of “Yes, We Can.”
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RICK ROCAMORA has won awards for his images and picture stories from Asian American Journalist Association, SF Bay Area Press Photographers Association, New California Media, Media Alliance; he was awarded a California Arts Council Art Fellowship and a Local Bay Area Heroes Award from KQED and Union Bank of California for his work about Filipino WW II Veterans. His work is widely exhibited in national and international museums and galleries. His work is part of a collection of American arts most recently exhibited at the Court of Saint James in the United Kingdom and the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. His work is included in the traveling exhibition “Points of Entry-A Nation of Strangers,” which was exhibited at the Smithsonian, Center for Photographic Arts, Museum of Photographic Arts, and other venues. His images are part of “Pork and Perks - Corruption and Governance in the Philippines” a National Book Award winner in the Philippines in 1994. “Second-Class Veterans” a film produced by Don Young that profiled Rocamora’s undying efforts to document the day-to-day lives of Filipino veterans was broadcast on PBS stations in 2003 and 2004. His book about Filipino WWII veterans, "America's Second-Class Veterans" was published in May 2009. He is also working on a project about Muslim-Americans after 9/11.