Barbour (R) Hoping to Attract Record Black Vote in MS

Jackson, MS, Clarion-Ledger ^ | 11-01-03 | Goodman, Julie

[Theodore R.]

Republican Haley Barbour has made frequent appeals to black Mississippians this election year, holding meetings in their communities and asking for votes that traditionally go to Democrats.

Barbour, who is trying to unseat Democratic Gov. Ronnie Musgrove, often says he hopes to garner more votes in the African-American community than any other Republican candidate in Mississippi, and some black voters are taking notice.

[Theodore R.]

I predict that when all is said and done the Musgrove-Blackmon ticket will get 90 percent of the black vote, maybe more!

[Theodore R.]

*ping*

[WKB]

Missippy ping via Texas

[GraniteStateConservative]

Some have pointed to signs of "race-baiting" in Barbour's campaign, such as his attempt to link Musgrove's run to Barbara Blackmon, a black lieutenant governor candidate, even though the two campaigns do not run on the same ticket in Mississippi.

He's trying to associate Ronnie with a nutcase who'll lose badly-- who just happens to be black.

[WKB]

You're gonna love this one

[WKB]

Adorable ping

[The Old Hoosier]

Total hatchet job.

[KC_Conspirator]

The term "Southern strategy" dates to 1968, when Richard Nixon decided a substantial number of white voters, many of them Southerners, were unhappy with the progress of civil rights laws, said Fred Slocum, a Minnesota State University-Mankato political science professor who teaches Southern politics.

Total hatchet job is right. "Southern strategy" has been wrongly interpreted by liberals to say once again that Republicans are rascist and they went after the southern rascist vote. What it really means is that the democrat party went hardcore left and abandoned middle class, average American family values by 1968 (Remember the Chicago riot at the democrat convention?) and the GOP thought they could get votes in the south.

[WKB]

Total hatchet job.


I can just imagine the fun Ms Goodman is going to have for the next 8 years

[dixiechick2000]

"The term "Southern strategy" dates to 1968, when Richard Nixon decided a substantial number of white voters, many of them Southerners, were unhappy with the progress of civil rights laws, said Fred Slocum, a Minnesota State University-Mankato political science professor who teaches Southern politics."

"Southern Strategy" had to do with the election, not civil rights.

"Slocum said Barbour's tactics are not uncommon among Republicans who reason that black voters "are not going to support us, so we may as well try to maximize the white vote instead. And the tried and true approach has been covert racial appeals."

"In the South, there are still some lingering racial stereotypes that can be activated for political purposes and it's chiefly Republicans who do that," he said.

But while Republicans use such code language, Democratic opponents here do little to point it out, he said.

"The Republican campaign playbook in the South has been one of making covert racial appeals and the Democratic playbook has been of one of silence and evasion."

I conclude that Slocum, a professor who purports to teach Southern Politics, is an idiot.
I seem to remember his name in, at least, one other smear article written by this author.

What a total hit piece by that woman, Julie Goodman.
It reads like it was written 30 years ago.

[Theodore R.]

Are you actually saying that an "unbiased" reporter like this Miss Goodman might actually be "biased" after all?

[dixiechick2000]

I'm shocked, TR.

Why in the world would I say that? lol