Posted on 09/11/2016 9:17:08 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
In 2002, John Thune lost a South Dakota US Senate race by 524 votes after being ahead by 3,729 votes at 3:41 a.m. with no counties containing Indian reservations having reported. Then a “suspicious” batch of votes for incumbent Democrat Tim Johnson came in from the state’s Indian reservations. They amounted to 4253 votes and Thune lost by a handful of votes.
In 2004 Thune tackled an even bigger target when he challenged Democrat Senator Leader Tom Daschle. This time things were different. This time Thune reached out to Russell Means, the leader of the American Indian Movement and a very influential man in Indian circles.
Reports that leaked out about their conversation indicated that Means assured Thune there would be no voter fraud on the reservations. Means campaigned to his fellow Native Americans saying that a vote for Daschle is a vote for business as usual and that only means more unemployment, alcoholism, violence and suicide.
This is essentially the message Donald Trump delivers to African Americans.
Much has been made of the fact that Trump could get as much as 20% of the Black vote. On its face this does not look like a big deal. It still means Hillary Clinton wins by a wide margin and locks up several key states’ Electoral College votes.
Nevertheless, the value of a Trump surge to 20% of the Black vote has...
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Just saw on Fox a reporter reading off poll results that Trump has 25% of the Black vote in Ohio.
Interesting point...
Ohio and Florida should go Trump and pretty solidly.
GOTV in Southeast Ohio and the FL panhandle.
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