Posted on 10/13/2014 6:26:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Republicans need to pick up six seats in November to gain control of the Senate.
Consensus to date points to good prospects of this happening.
But one state where the picture remains unclear for Republicans is North Carolina. Republican challenger, speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives Thom Tillis, has failed to pull ahead of Democrat incumbent Senator Kay Hagan and average of latest polling shows him behind 3 to 4 points.
Mitt Romney won North Carolina in 2012 by three points. In the last ten presidential elections, Republicans prevailed in North Carolina eight times.
North Carolina is anything but a boilerplate blue state. And the Hagan-Tillis face-off is as pure liberal vs. conservative as you can get.
Tillis is an experienced legislator and solid conservative.
So what’s the problem?
One issue is the volatile black vote. Not volatile as to their consistency to vote for Democrats but whether or not they show up to vote.
North Carolina, with a population that is 22 percent black, is a laboratory this November for whether the Republican challenger can successfully point to the dismal record of the Democrat incumbent regarding black progress and convince black voters that they should not vote for more of the same.
The big question in states like North Carolina, and with black voters nationwide, is how long will blacks continue to buy what they have been sold for years by liberals.
Hagan’s story line for black voters is the same as what liberals always tell blacks.
Don’t vote for the conservative because the conservative wants to cut government money. And don’t vote for the conservative because the conservative is “for rich people”, and “they’re racist”, and they, as Joe Biden said, “want to put you back in chains’.”
But will these voters really believe that the black poverty rate in North Carolina stands at 34 percent, versus 13 percent among whites, because taxes are not high enough or because government spending is not expansive enough?
Or that the graduation rate of black males in North Carolina is, according the Schott Foundation, just 58 percent, because government is not spending enough on public schools?
Maybe blacks will finally grasp that government spending really benefits the political class and not the lower class.
Median income in North Carolina in 2013 was $45,906 compared to $90,149 in the national capitol Washington, DC-Arlington-Alexandria region.
The political class in Washington and the mainstream media can complain that outside money is being spent in North Carolina. But the fact is that because of the aggressive growth of government, all Senate races are national.
So yes, the National Rifle Association is getting its message out in North Carolina about the importance of 2nd amendment protection. While crime ravages most black communities, only 13 percent of blacks, compared to 26 percent of whites, own guns.
And yes, the Susan B Anthony List is getting its message out in North Carolina about the abortion extremism of liberals like Hagan.
While black women account for only 7 percent of the nation’s women of childbearing age, they account for 35 percent of the abortions and Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, with 79 percent of its clinics targeting black communities, has pledged $3 million to support Kay Hagan.
And yes, black conservatives are in black communities in North Carolina pointing out that big government means slow economic growth, and this hurts blacks. The black unemployment rate in North Carolina is more than double that of whites.
In a recent Pew survey, only 26 percent of blacks nationwide said the situation for “black people in this country is better today, compared with five years ago.”
Black voters sent Kay Hagan to the U.S. Senate in 2008. Maybe as blacks start taking a closer look at Hagan, and other liberals, they will start having second thoughts.
There is that 47% to start with. It isn’t going away.
Yes, because Democrats give them Free Stuff.
Yes. Now and forever.
Best to hope that black voters stay at home rather than try to convince them that liberalism is what is hurting them. Liberalism is literally killing their babies and they vote for them anyway.
No more AfroAmerican Express ?
No more AfroAction set-asides ?
Shirley, you jest, Ms.Parker ! ?
The truth is, Progressive Leftists are opposed to individual liberty as defined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The only real complaint they have about chattel slavery in America two hundred years ago is that the slaves were privately owned.
But they get orgasmic over the idea of slavery to the state.
Democrats never pass up on opportunity to tell us why enslavement by the state is for our own protection and our own safety, because life under the anarchy that conservatives want to impose is just too risky and dangerous. We can't have any of that inhumane "on-your-own economics" that conservatives advocate.
Thereby proving that you no longer have to be black to be an Uncle Tom.
bingo.
Pandering and apologizing are the wrong way to go.
One black Lousiaiana DNC Rep switched to GOP... Elbert Guillory
Of course they will. Based on election results, more than 90 percent of them have brains made up of skin pigment.
As long as they continue to get free stuff, yes they will.
A light went off for me last week when Rush was reading some stats about the 22 point margin of difference between single women voting democrat and other groups ...
No wonder the DNC tries to keep them single, on the pill for free, getting free maternity care, abortions, food, cell phones, rent, etc.
So long as they are helpless, they will vote for the DNC.
Sad....
More than Half of my ancestors were Cherokee, Trail of Tears, etc. I don’t let that steal my joy today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Long article.
Short answer:
“yes.”
Absolutely; by keeping them single through the “war on women” propaganda they ensure that a lot of American women will remain single (and often childless) while they are increasingly surrounded by darker children jabbering in foreign tongues. I expect this to continue until those same women realize they are feeding, schooling, and housing those children through their taxes...
Heck, it only requires the PROMISE of free stuff in a lot of cases. When the asshats get questioned about where du stuff at, they get to blame the racist gop-e for denying them what’s, uh, rightfully theirs(?).
You see, the problem with holding out hope that somehow people who live off the government are going to someday wake up to the error of their way, is that it doesn't take into account the very mind-set of those who have been living that way for a generation or more. They believe, falsely, that whatever they get from the government, food stamps, welfare payments, Section 8 housing, is OWED TO THEM. Those entitlements, in their mind, are THEIR STUFF. That's why they will never change and the only way for it to change is when the whole corrupt system collapses. . . .and it WILL collapse, because, ultimately, it robs the individual of his God-given divine creative core. . .and is, in the final analysis, an abomination to God and to His mighty work, created in His image. . . that is, the human being. . .a marvelous work, but one with a strange proclivity for handing over the divine for 30 pieces of silver.
Te question is whether Hagan has enough cash to pay for the votes.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/06/The-Pro-Slavery-Roots-of-the-Modern-Left
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