Desperate Republicans chase the black vote

Facing disastrous poll numbers and collapsing support ahead of vital elections this year, Republican Party strategists have taken firm aim at a surprise voting bloc - black Americans.The White House and top Republican officials have launched a blitz to persuade black people that their future will be better served by shedding decades of loyalty to the Democratic Party and voting Republican instead. Prominent black Americans, including a Hall of Fame football star, are Republican candidates in several high-profile races for November's mid-term elections.

Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, has been speaking at events hosted by traditional black civil rights groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People and the Urban League. The national committee has organised at least 50 events aimed at black Americans. Later this month, Republicans will hold their first workshops for training black candidates.If the Republican move succeeds, it will mark a reverse of one of the longest trends in US politics that has seen black Americans - who once voted Republican in the segregationist Democratic South and were often attacked by the Ku Klux Klan for doing so - shun the party after the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, when Republicans adopted a 'Southern strategy' of attracting mainly white voters. Republicans admit that they have their work cut out.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1774371,00.html

Part of the antidote to GOP propaganda would be to remind Afro-American voters of the GOP's history of code-word race baiting as well as Lee Atwater's "Willie Horton" ads.

Of course, if another hurricane or two slams into the Gulf Coast, Mother Nature might give Afro-American voters yet another reminder as to what good "friends" they have in the Republican Party.

http://salon.com/books/feature/2006/05/12/goldberg/

I listened to "most" of Goldberg's interview on Terri Gross' "Fresh Air" on NPR a few days ago. (I have not yet read the Salon article. You may have to click through ads to view the article. I have a Salon.com subscription, so I got right in.)

The RW also quit rallying against the Catholics and Jews now that they have a new and well-defined enemy in the homosexual agenda.

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story altogether. They already had about 10% of the Black vote BEFORE Katrina, after it, I doubt they could even get 1% of the vote. They fucked up, and are going to pay for it. You can't ignore a people for over 2 generations and expect them to vote for you. No one is going to lie back and allow these fucking backstabbing assholes back into power after what they did, or didn't do, in this case.

both 2000 and 2004, when votes were stolen, thrown away or just not even allowed, they opened the door for black voters to look in other directions.

For years, radio broadcast pukers like Rush Limbaugh, based their hate messages on lies that all black Americans were on welfare and that white Americans were being taxed to pay for that service. It caused a lot of non-think-for-themselves Democrats to join the GOP. Now, that it is coming out that radical religious groups are practicing bigamy and collecting welfare for the babies they make with 8-10 wives, that old Limbaugh lie is losing its legs.
Also, they are losing rw white voters because of the immigration problem and a lot of other unpopular policies of this administration...so where best to look to increase their voting numbers? The black vote of course.

Now, here is one GOP strategy...take a few black people and make them ridiculously rich (as long as they toe the party line like Cheney made Condi rich with oil stock, so I read). That may make large numbers of the rest of the African American population think, "Hmmmmm...maybe they have got something there." This beats out the Democrats who often seem ashamed to even acknowledge or appreciate the African American vote.

Money is God these days and with the job market being what it is,(especially when it comes to hiring blacks, a lot of African American voters may come to believe that they stand a better chance of gaining wealth with the "other" party. Especially young African Americans who have little real understanding of the importance of the Civil Rights battles fought on their behalf in the 1960s. Their attitude today is, "Why should I care? I need millions of dollars just to buy a home, a car and to send my children to college. I will go with the folks that have the big money. Afer all,counting my vote doesn't really matter to the party of my parents."

If Democrats would have really fought for the disenfranchised African American vote in both 2000 and 2004 they would not even have had to worry about attracting the so-called "moderate" or "swing" vote. They would have had more than enough votes to win legally. But, there was no great outrage and so perhaps the Dems really deserve to lose whatever members feel that they have been ignored by the party. It is sad, but true.

As an aside: There was an election in Newark, NJ a few days ago for Mayor. The race was between two African American candidates. One, named Cory Booker, was the favorite of the business community, but they never mentioned his party affiliation in print or on the air, to my knowledge.

I asked my daughter if she had gone to vote. She said "No" and I immediately began to fuss that she should and why didn't she? Her answer was that she had heard nothing at all about the Democratic candidate until a day or so before the election and in her words, "I just couldn't see myself voting for a Republican so I didn't vote."

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