Rendell: Race Factor Could Hurt Obama [Democrat Governor of Pennsylvania, of course.]

AP by way of Google ^ | 12FEB08 | Associated Press

[PermaRag]

This sounds a little bit familiar....

Remember the New York Mayoral election where Giuliani beat that piece-of-crap racist incumbent David Dinkins?

We were told then by the usual race-pimps (Sharpton, Jackson, etc.) that Dinkins only lost because of racism, because white racists were not willing to vote for someone of a different skin color from their own.

It turned out that the pimps were correct - sort of. The numbers revealed that whites were split about 60-40 for Rudy. But blacks voted over 90% against the candidate whose skin color was different from their own.

So remind me again, Rev-rund Al & Chezzie Chackson, who are the true racists? You know, the ones who fit your own description of "racism" so well?

I can't heeeear you.....

[Vigilanteman]

No. The sleazebag Rendell will crank out his Democrap machine no matter who is the nominee. They need his machine and will reward him accordingly.

[ErieGeno]

If he is not elected, it will be only because the racist white voter outnumbered the racist black voter.

He will not be elected because he has accomplished NOTHING in his life!

[traditional1]

"All of the black folks in my area voted for President Bush"

And with a black candidate, vs. any white candidate, which way would they be voting?

[familyop]

..."a black candidate, vs. any white candidate?"

Well, they're older veterans and their families. They'd probably vote for Duncan Hunter, if he were still running. Now, some of them will probably vote against Hillary and the rest for McCain.

There was a little humor in my response, though. This is a remote area. We're all rednecks in a general sense, regardless of color. There are rednecks for Hillary, and there are rednecks against Hillary. Most of the rednecks against Hillary are veterans (probably except one white woman, who was an officer and is also a contractor), lower income men and young people. Most of the rednecks in favor of Hillary here are school teachers, other government employees, lawyers, older woman business managers, drug addicts, and the like.

[familyop]

Oh...and some white, retired women. They seem to favor Hillary quite a bit.

[hinckley buzzard]

...there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate...

Why does anyone not believe this?

Of course you are right. That's the main reason the 'rats haven't elevated their black toadies to positions of power. I expect this will be a factor also in Ohio, where the 'rat party is thick with a) rural poorly educated hillbillies and b) blue collar union thugs who resent affirmative action-type programs while they watch their fat union jobs and bennies melt away.

I don't know much about PA but I expect the "firewall" to work for Clinton in Ohio.

[dr_who_2]

If you don’t vote for Obama, you’re a racist. How original.

[Intolerant in NJ]

"You've got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate," Rendell told the editorial board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette...Meanwhile here in the People's Democratic Republic of New Jersey, the wife of a connected 'rat politician in one of the big counties right across the river from Rendell's Pennsylvania remarks to my wife "If that N word wins he'll appoint all his N word friends to big jobs to run things and we'll be done for" - Rendell knows his tolerant, diversity-loving party very well - lots of olde tyme 'rats will never pull the lever for Obama - of course, when Obama loses it will be the 'pubs who'll be blamed and called racists, but Fast Eddie will know different......

[familyop]

My point is that we're not happy with the nominee in our Party, and there's still a lot of time between now and the general election. Matters important to most of us haven't been addressed, yet.

Why Republicans Will Lose in 2008
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969426/posts

Why Republicans Will Lose in 2008, Part II
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969429/posts

The most influential constituents wanted to give us the choice between McCain and Hillary. But they're getting what they asked for.

The problem came from the 19th Amendment--not the 15th.

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How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

JOHN R. LOTT Jr.
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (download links for whole document at bottom of page)

September 1998

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 60
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1, pp. 1163-1198, December 1999

Abstract:

This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.

[Jaysin]

I agree with you 100%.

I had a southern roomate in the army who was a hardcore democrat—I never understood why—he was the most conservative redneck I ever met, but some family affiliation thing made him a hardcore dem.

All I can say though is he would never ever ever ever vote for a black man, and certainly a muslim black man for president. bottom line.

[Caipirabob]

"You've got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate," Rendell told the editorial board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in remarks that appeared in Tuesday's paper.

Read: Core Democrats, like the types who fought along side of Al Gore's father and Democrat Senator and KKK Grand Dragon Robert Byrd against the civil rights act. The same people who would have my wife and children drinking from a separate water fountain and sitting in the back of the bus. Yes... Democrats...

[L98Fiero]

“And with a black candidate, vs. any white candidate, which way would they be voting?”

The answer to that question are in the results of the Dem primaries. The white vote is split between Obama and Hillary and the black vote is solidly Obama, over 90% in some areas.

The real truth is, in a “black vs. white” race, far higher percentages of whites will vote for the black candidate than vice versa.

The fact that most blacks (I feel comfortable calling 80-90% of those who voted “most”) will vote strictly on racial lines when given the opportunity is applauded. The expectation of the relatively few whites to do the same is considered racist.

[Revenge of Sith]

> blacks voted over 90% against the candidate whose skin color was different from their own.

They voted 97% for Dinkins and Dinkins got 98% of the black vote when he beat Giuliani four years earlier.