Posted on 10/28/2006 12:56:42 AM PDT by teldon30
WASHINGTON - African-American voters could decide whether Democrats or Republicans win control of the House of Representatives or the Senate on Nov. 7, and Democrats are working overtime to ensure that they turn out to vote.
But that may be harder this year than it traditionally has been, for several reasons.
African-Americans are less loyal to the Democratic Party than in previous decades. Many are disillusioned with voting after feeling shut out in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004. And the Republican Party is working aggressively to attract more African-American voters.
So Democrats are pulling out the stops in their courtship of this longtime solid, faithful voting group.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., for example, is a former president of the Congressional Black Caucus. He's campaigning for his own re-election, and he's helping Maryland Democratic Senate candidate Ben Cardin - who's white - compete for African-American votes in Cardin's race against Republican Michael Steele - who's African-American.
This weekend, Cummings is leading a get-out-the-black-vote bus tour through Maryland, New Jersey and Ohio.
"If we have a situation where Mr. Steele were to win, the Republicans would treat it as a major victory for them with the African-American vote and spin it to the high heavens," Cummings said. "We realize we have to work hard to capture every vote."
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Yea, the Democrats have been so helpful to most minorities up to this point. (Sarcasm off)
Sorry, but I stopped reading right there.
No blacks were "shut out" here that I've ever seen. - Quite the contrary.
No, but the Democrats have been telling them they were shut out for so long, they now believe they were and always will be. Since Democrats can never admit they actually lost an honest election because their ideas sucked, every time they lose, they have to blame it on dirty tricks, rigged Diebold machines, etc. As usual, they ate away like termites at the common good, undermining trust in the system for their own selfish partisan reasons; in this case, keeping minorities convinced that evil Republicans had disenfranchised them so they wouldn't consider how much better off they'd be if they left the Dem plantation for the GOP camp. But it worked so well, many minority Dem voters are now saying, "Well, if my vote never counts, why bother voting at all?" Their cynical strategy has come back to bite them in the rear, and never has such a chomp been so richly deserved.
Pandering like crazy. With all that action, though, over all those years, you would think there would be something to show for it.
Re. your post #5 ~~
Spot on analysis!
I was speaking to my neighbor the other day, a really nice man who happens to be black; he hates Michael Steele, and thinks Lynn Swann is a mental lightweight. He also said that Fast Eddie Rendell is a sleazoid crook; but guess who he's voting for - Fast Eddie! I think he just hates black Republicans.
As Emeril would say: BAM!
I guess we've regressed to enforcement of the Runaway Slave Act.
The house boy is heading out into the fields to convince the hands that slavery is a good thing.
Secure, or imprison with dependency?
They are talking about the belief pushed by the Dems that there was and is a conspiracy to "disenfrancise" black voters. Now the Dems are suffering from the side effect of pushing theories of conspiracy and vote tampering- if your vote doesn't count, why bother in the first place?
Not good news for Dems when they have to work to secure one of their base voting blocks.
The democrats: Enslaving blacks for 180 years!
My old dad registered as a Republican in KKK country in 1947. He was told he was the only white Republican in the county, by the sneering democrat party sc*mbags who ran the place.
Therein lies the explanation why blacks are abandoning the Rat party. The hypocrisy is so obvious that even Stevie Wonder can see it.
Expect to see more blacks leave as the Rats pander to Hispanics who are taking over traditionally black jobs and businesses.
"Pandering like crazy. With all that action, though, over all those years, you would think there would be something to show for it."
Yeah, besides the destruction of the black family.
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