Congressional Black Caucus members called on President Obama Friday to address the skyrocketing African-American unemployment rate.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in November 2009 for African-Americans is 15.6 percent.

The Obama administration's Keynesian stimulus must targeted to front end projects

in urban areas and not to the state governments.

Small businesses and consumers buy and sell on the local level.

This is where the job creation and deficit restraint occur.

President Obama is an urban president and a Clinton or Reagon state government type.

Attorney General Martha Coakley has defeated Rep. Michael Capuano, City Year co-founder Alan Khazei and Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca to win the Democratic nomination in the race to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Martha Coakley is holding on for her political life.

The Rasmussen poll places her(36%) lead at 15 points with 10% undecided.

Congressman Michael Capuano is now at 31% in some polls

Alan Khazei the Kennedy family candidate is now in third place and moving up by the hour.

For business person Stephen Pagliuca the train has left the station.

He now finds himself dead last in a four person race.

Fuzzy Zoeller remark after Tiger 1997 Masters tournament victory; He's doing quite well, pretty impressive. That little boy is driving well and he's putting well. He's doing everything it takes to win. So, you know what you guys do when he gets in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not to serve fried chicken next year. Got it." Zoeller then smiled, snapped his fingers, and walked away before turning and adding, "or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve.

Representative Michael Capuano is the second person in this short version of the race for the seat once held by Senator Edward M Kennedy.

The front- runner Martha Coakley is hearing foot steps.

Perhaps,the real question is how will the so-called "Gender Divide" effect this race.

Coakley supported the Hillary in 2008 and most the

male politicians support the President.

Will President Obama's Afghanistan strategy make political capital for 2010 election or will it turn into a LBJ trap?

Political analyst Jerry Pippin joins us to discuss situation.

Mary Norwood says she's not conceding the race. "We have not gotten enough good information from the county itself."

Politics of race has dominated Atlanta politics since the civil war Maynard Jackson was elected the city’s first African-American mayor in 1973 .

Mary Norwood is in place to be city’s first white mayor in 36 years pulling votes from mostly "white area"(Buckhead) of the Atlanta.

"I live in a red neighborhood in a blue city in a red state in a blue country," said Buckhead resident Mary Norwood.

Atlanta City Council President Lisa Borders,Reverend Joseph E. Lowery,former Governor Barnes and International Brotherhood of Police Officers have endorsed Kasim Reed for mayor.

Ivan Eberhart a Chicago man and father four has filed, Pro Se, a petition for writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court, which presented three questions:

1) Whether the Seventh Circuit Appellate Court contradicted rulings of this Court and other circuits, including itself, by denying a certificate of appealibility when District Court denied petitioner’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim without holding an evidentiary hearing.

Justice Thurgood Marshall predicted in his dissent in the landmark Strickland v. Washington Supreme Court decision that there would be too much of a variance between circuits in identifying when counsel's performance was "below reasonable standards" and Mr. Eberhart contends that granting cert in this case would give the Supreme Court the opportunity to remove the vagueness that surrounds the Strickland ruling.

2)Whether the Seventh Circuit departed from this Court’s ruling and the rulings of other circuits in determining what constitutes actual innocence?

Eberhart points out that Judge Zagel, in granting a new trial which the appellate court overturned, stated in granting the trial and in sentencing after the appellate ruling that "Ivan Eberhart did not receive a fair trial and deserves a new one."

3)Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in determining that employing a special verdict form as an end-run around this Court’s rulings in Apprendi and Booker, is not a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.

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