Ohio Blacks Move to Bush

NewsMax ^ | 08/08/2004 | unknown

[headsonpikes]

...none ever in the Senate...

Edward Brooke, Massachusetts, a few Presidents ago.

[Bob]

(insert red face here) I typed to fast......LOL!

If he got 1 out of ten in 2000, but looks to get 3 out of ten (10!) this will be a blowout.

Nice catch, I have a habit of typing while I'm talking on the phone or to the staff here, now and then it causes the error you pointed out.

Understood. :=) I do the same.

A 30% figure would be great but I think that might be a bit much to hope for. Even 20% would be very significant. Anything higher would be terrific.

[zbigreddogz]

I thought I was forgetting one (I said I wasn't sure). He's the one.

Strange how we get these random statewide R's from Mass, but are outnumbered like 45-7 in the State Senate, but we've had the Governor's mansion for a long time, and occasionally have R senators etc.

Weird.

[hardhead]

Many blacks don't seem to equate queers with their struggle - but the dimwits are trying to spin it in that direction.

[colorado tanker]

There is no way the Two Johns rich white guys ticket can duplicate Bubba's numbers with African-Americans.

[Tamzee]

The first black Senators and Reps were all Republicans, see below... I also recall but can't find a Washington Post article mentioning that occasionally white Republicans were lynched with blacks to get us to stop helping them run for office.


"Seventeen Blacks were elected to serve in the U. S. House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate. Blanche K. Bruce and Hiram Revels from Mississippi were the first Blacks to be elected to the U. S. senate. Bruce served a full term, while Revels only served a year and a half. All of these elected officials were Republicans. As a matter of fact, 80% of the Republican voters in the South were Black men."

http://www.csusm.edu/Black_Excellence/documents/pg-r-reconstruction.html

[Tamzee]

Thank you most kindly for the ping :-)

[prairiebreeze]

BUMP for later read. Thunderstorms a gathering at the moment.

[Wolfstar]

Gillespie is quietly making huge inroads to real black leaders in cities across the country. It will pay off.

With all my heart, I hope it's true that at least some inroads are being made. I know this administration has tried harder than any administration in my lifetime to do substantive, practical outreach on the ground in black communities. I yearn for a fresh start between African-Americans and the Republican Party — not for political calculus, but because Leftism is so damaging to all people.

 

My tagline until the election:
A vote for Kerry-Edwards is a vote for Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Jacques Chirac, the UN, and Hollyweirdos like Michael Moore and Whoopie Goldberg. A vote not cast, or a vote cast for a minority party, is a vote for Kerry-Edwards (unless you’re a liberal/Leftist who’ll vote for Nader, the Greens, or stay home.)

[My2Cents]

Black Americans finally breaking out of the political plantation mentality. This is great news.

[My2Cents]

Spot on!

[mattdono]

I bet the demoRATs feel like Scooby Doo

Raggy! RUT RO!

[foreverfree]

bump

[onyx]

WOW!
If this trend holds,
it's all but over.

[My2Cents]

JFK made one phone call -- to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Birmingham jail -- and it set black Americans' political loyalties for a generation. Other then the sponsorship of civil rights legislation (which was not small thing), the Democrat Party has historically been the biggest barrier to black opportunity in the nation.

[Flightdeck]

To plagiarize John Leguizamo:

Blacks voting for Democrats is like roaches voting for Raid. It's suicide.

[My2Cents]

I noticed that when gay rights/ marriage bs was being compared to Civil Rights Movement of the 50's and 60's,the black community did something curious.....they went silent.

Not really. Many black leaders -- mainly black pastors -- took offense to this comparison, and were very vocal. One black pastor in Georgia went so far to say that if the KKK were to come out against gay marriage, he'd ride with them on that issue. I kid you not! That is serious trouble for the Demwads.

[mattdono]

$710.96... The price of freedom

Frederick Douglass Bump.

[My2Cents]

I yearn for a fresh start between African-Americans and the Republican Party — not for political calculus, but because Leftism is so damaging to all people.

Agreed! All the Democrats offer is institutionalized victimization. Civil rights legislation in the 60s was significant and substantive, but over the past 30 years, what the Democrats have offered black America is bondage to a cancerous ideology.

Is there any chance of giving Bill Cosby some prime time at the GOP convention? His recent comments are exactly what the GOP should stand for.

[ASA Vet]

I still contend the first minority president will be a GOP.

I agree, she will be.