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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts) Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:14 PM Sep 2012

I am amazed at Romney's ability to draw an all white crowd in Virginia Beach

I lived in that area, up on the Peninsula for 7 years, and I know for a fact that that part of the state is very racially diverse.

He's not going to win this thing with just courting old white people…. He should know this.

Doesn't he get that this new Southern Strategy thing of his going to come back and bite him in the ass?

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I am amazed at Romney's ability to draw an all white crowd in Virginia Beach (Original Post) MrScorpio Sep 2012 OP

I suspect ... 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2012 #1

their strategy is get the old white (largely male) vote and stop the rest of us from voting... hlthe2b Sep 2012 #2

I lived in VA Beach and Norfolk for 20 years . . . fleur-de-lisa Sep 2012 #3

What if Romney (the man) doesn't know it? nc4bo Sep 2012 #4

They're just there for the post-rally accordion concert BeyondGeography Sep 2012 #5

Retro Virus Cahow Sep 2012 #6

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

1. I suspect ...

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:17 PM

Sep 2012

He knows it; but has no appeal to anyone but older and (largely) uneducated white folks. If he could draw in others, he would be trying.

hlthe2b

(102,236 posts)

2. their strategy is get the old white (largely male) vote and stop the rest of us from voting...

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:18 PM

Sep 2012

It can't possibly work if we GOTV. It can if we sit back on our heels.

I can only hope we GOTV.

fleur-de-lisa

(14,624 posts)

3. I lived in VA Beach and Norfolk for 20 years . . .

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:19 PM

Sep 2012

Although the area is racially mixed, there are a lot of bigots. I thought the deep south was bad, but southeastern Virginia has it's share of hateful rednecks as well.

nc4bo

(17,651 posts)

4. What if Romney (the man) doesn't know it?

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:21 PM

Sep 2012

What if The Romney Campaign keep him in a political bubble, only showing him GOP produced bullshit?

What if they give the advice to ignore all non-GOP produced BS telling him all others are lies?

BeyondGeography

(39,370 posts)

5. They're just there for the post-rally accordion concert

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:21 PM

Sep 2012

Cahow

(14 posts)

6. Retro Virus

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:23 PM

Sep 2012

You got that "Old White People" thing nailed tight!

The few customer's I have who are GOP are in their early 70's, haven't changed ONE THING in their homes since the 70's when they got married and think "The whole world is going to hell in a handbasket."

They stopped growing 40+ years ago and want life to return to Father Knows Best.

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