(CNSNews.com) – A Gallup poll released Friday revealed that the majority of Americans (70 percent) believe that college admissions should be based solely on merit and that a person's racial/ethnic background should not be a factor.
The survey found that 50 percent of blacks agreed that merit should be the sole factor in admissions, while 44 percent believed that race/ethnicity should be a factor, compared with 29 percent of Hispanics and 22 percent of whites who thought race should be a factor.
CLEVELAND — They finally hosted a championship parade after decades of sports futility, and now they're a week away from hosting another grand spectacle: the Republican National Convention.
The crush of more than 1.3 million people at last month's parade in honor of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers resulted in not a single arrest. But that event did not feature Donald J. Trump, the brash and brazen candidate whose rhetoric often inspires protest. Nor did it subject Clevelanders to the extraordinary security detail of a presidential nominee.
