Even though Afghanistan's two COIN commanders had visibly failed in a war against an under-armed, undermanned, none-too-popular minority insurgency, and even though the doctrine of counterinsurgency would soon be tossed off a moving drone and left to die in the Afghan rubble, Petraeus once again made it out in one piece.
An earlier Gallup poll ranked atheists as the least popular hypothetical minority presidential candidates, and the group that people would most disapprove of their child marrying.
There is no question that the president is far more popular among minority voters than Mr. Gore, and his appearance today on "The Tom Joyner Morning Show," broadcast nationwide on the ABC Radio Networks, was part of a strategy to spur a large Democratic turnout for a candidate who many minority voters say leaves them cold.
As for a successor, Nixon chose the popular House Minority Leader, Gerald Ford, of Michigan, described by the Journal as "pleasant but plodding party wheelhorse who often speaks and apparently thinks in clichés" — in other words, not anyone's first choice as a potential President.
Donald Trump conned (a popular vote minority) of the voters to make him president, largely through starring on the reality show "Celebrity Apprentice".
This is especially true, experts say, for non-sequel films and films popular with minority moviegoers, who can be harder to survey because they are a statistically small and not reliably representative cross-sampling of respondents.
In North Carolina, the reduction in early voting hours and the elimination of same-day voter registration that is popular with minority voters could impact Democratic Senator Kay Hagan's re-election fight with Republican Thom Tillis, a key piece in the Republican push for a Senate majority.
And who can forget a few years back when the bright, gaudy, rhinestoned nail designs popular with minorities made the jump from chavvy to chic as soon as the masses cottoned on?
His article has been seized upon by students and faculty members who say it was yet one more example of insensitivity from the Emory administration, which in September announced sweeping cuts that some say unfairly targeted programs that are popular with minorities.
And Pew says that geosocial services and automatic location-tagging are most popular with minorities.
