Why they move polling places, cut polling hours, require voter IDs that are hard to get, find ways to purge voting lists, and on and on and on. They know those numbers as well as any Dem, which is why they do everything they can to simply prevent minorities from ever getting to vote.

But don't blame all of the problem on Republican shenanigans.

We are responsible for getting out our own vote. We didn't do it in November, and we did not do well.

Obama was such a draw in 2008, but where did out voters go in 2010, which was THE key election for redistricting?

We did better in 2012 with Obama, but then hardly anyone showed up in 2014!

We must do well with our own GOTV in 2016. Let's hope whoever is the candidate is a real draw.

to try to lure Hispanic and Asian voters (with an extra emphasis on "might&quot , but I don't expect them to do squat for the Black community in order to win more of our support. I think they've pretty much written us off over the years and realized that most of us don't like their backwards economic agenda. There's also the matter of how they've treated the first Black president during the past 7 years, and how their message summed up is "the liberals want the government to take your money and give it to those people, but we can stop them."