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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsActual headline: GOP's push to woo blacks
http://news.yahoo.com/gop-struggles-recruit-black-voters-candidates-073023478--election.htmlI can see their team meeting for this right now.
"How can we woo blacks?"
"I KNOW! Let's impeach the first black president ever. That'll surely win 'em over!"
"Brilliant."
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I do not believe this is real. It has to be a joke?
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)an "affirmative action president", calling him lazy, and making fun of Michelle's body. You know, for starters.
safeinOhio
(32,531 posts)themselves.
underpants
(182,279 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)I better tell JustAnotherGen. Solved that mystery.
JustAnotherGen
(31,683 posts)Is kind of revealing
In 2012, blacks for the first time voted at a higher rate, 66.2 percent, than did whites, with a rate of 64.1 percent, or Asians or Hispanics, with rates of about 48 percent each.
Few of those votes went to Republican candidates; most African-American voters do not identify themselves as Republican. Exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and the networks showed that only about 6 percent identified themselves as GOP voters in 2004, and 4 percent did so in 2008 and 2012.
Once the party of choice for blacks after slavery ended more than a century ago, the GOP says it now wants those votes back. It is spending $60 million to court black voters, and a new initiative aims to recruit 300 women and 200 minorities to run for state and local office.
Koch Brother's Give $25 Million to the United Negro College Fund
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11877285
The shell game is on. What better way to initiate folks than at the University level of future high earners.
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)and vote for democrats anyway.
Just like the beer parties the Kochs were throwing at college campuses to persuade the kids to not sign up for Obamacare. I hope they ate and drank to their hearts content and signed up anyway.
Take whatever these pigs will hand out and do the opposite of what they want.
JustAnotherGen
(31,683 posts)You will be seduced by it. Also note the Koch's VERY close relationship to the Devos family.
You know - the people pushing charter schools - in 'inner cities'.
They are coming for - they have some plan to dumb us down. Once they do that - they gather more folks for their dominionist ideology based theocracy.
louis-t
(23,199 posts)Maybe they can accomplish that in a limited way, but at the same time they are suppressing the voting rights of black voters?
JustAnotherGen
(31,683 posts)But it's a matter of the 'right' black voters. It's where they are going. Pay attention real close - they are getting back the black elite that left in droves in 1994.
Cha
(295,926 posts)IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)that will work every time!
ANYTHING, except any sort of plans for more jobs, healthcare, education, or protecting voter rights.
In seriousness, they are actively targetting the religious types of all minorities. Many millionaires and corporate tools like Herman Cain have been in their pocket for a long time anyway.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Herman takes time out from harrassing women, to join the gop racists. He is considering running for the WH again. Some people just do not learn, do they?
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Well so far their capacity for evil has overcome their stupidity. Let's see if hate radio and Fox can pull this off
Scuba
(53,475 posts)rustydog
(9,186 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Is that supposed to be "screw"? Who wrote that, Senator Foghorn Leghorn, little Lindsey?
gordianot
(15,226 posts)As an older White male who personally knows moderate White Republicans I have heard their rhetoric and what they really think. My level of supreme disgust extends to all Republicans everywhere and those who demand payment for the slightest modicum of tolerance.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)who let the dogs out.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)'Cause you know you aren't even gonna try to make any policies that would actually help black people overcome racism and poverty. So you're only hope is to rephrase the policies in code.
Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)n/t
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)they could've sent it all to me; I could really use a car and a new house right now!
SPOILER ALERT: Not many black voters (if any at all) will fall for this, and they probably know it. I think this is more of an attempt of the GOP to woo white swing-voters and moderates who are not already on board by doing "outreach" and pretending to not be racist.
Cha
(295,926 posts)genius.