[TitansAFC]

This is madness.

Herman Cain would not only garner less of the black vote than the other candidates, he would actually do the impossible task of bringing out more black voters for Obama than McCain did.

People who believe otherwise live in a fantasy world with no sense of the mindset of black voters in america today.

Black voters are just going to line-up to vote out the first African-American Democrat to put in a black Republican? Horsefeathers! Obama owns an approval rating is over 91% even TODAY (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=obama%20approval%20rating%20blacks&source=newssearch&cd=3&ved=0CDgQqQIwAg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fpost-partisan%2Fpost%2Fcain-and-the-black-vote-wishful-thinking%2F2011%2F03%2F04%2FgIQAQQfHlN_blog.html&ei=EtzPTrLEFez22AXxtNG8BQ&usg=AFQjCNFTEUGxoS7qSXJWpe-UZ60Q5oIvlw).

Utterly ridiculous to make this gamble. Bet the nation on a roulette number and you’ll have better odds of being right.

[buccaneer81]

Herman Cain would not only garner less of the black vote than the other candidates, he would actually do the impossible task of bringing out more black voters for Obama than McCain did.

You are out of your mind.

[chris37]

Yep, write them off.

They aren’t worth the effort or time, as far as I am concerned the only way to really deal with them is to let Mother Nature and Father Time deal with ‘em.

They are lost and not worth finding.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

” People who believe otherwise live in a fantasy world with no sense of the mindset of black voters in america today. “

Gloria Cain is a registered and active Democrat.
If Herman can’t convince her to become a Republican , what shot does he have with millions of strangers ?
Herman himself didn’t see the wisdom of joining the Republican Party until he was 50 and almost out of the business world.
Cain has said he has voted for Democrats in the past and he supported Bill Clinton in 1992.
Cain and the handful of black Republicans are the exception and will never be the rule until blacks themselves
decide the Republican way is the better way.

[dforest]

One thing is certain. Newt won’t be able to pull any black voters.

Cain will get quite a few. Those that like Alveda King and many conservative black people.

[MitchellC]

he would actually do the impossible task of bringing out more black voters for Obama than McCain did.

That's the most absurd thing I've read in a while.

Obama maxed out the black vote in 2008. If you were black and didn't vote for Obama in 2008, you almost certainly aren't going to vote for Obama in 2012.

Cain would not only garner less of the black vote than the other candidates

Utterly ridiculous. Gingrich, Romney, and Perry are exactly the kind of Bush-esque, rich white elites that black Democrats picture all Republicans to be. Those types are easily dismissed by blacks (Democrats in general actually) in a way that Herman Cain could never be.

Again, as I've said on another thread: the worst case scenario with Cain and blacks is that Cain does no better than other Republicans would have, but with Obama actually having to blow some of his resources to make sure of it. That is a net plus for us.

And I'll add to that here: if Obama and/or his proxies go full-on 'Uncle Tom treatment' on Cain, it would probably gain Cain massive sympathy with whites, who Obama is almost fatally damaged with at this point as it is.