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McCain making play at NAACP for votes Obama should win
McClatchy Newspapers ^
| 2008-07-13
| William Douglas
Posted on 07/13/2008 4:47:53 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON Barack Obama and John McCain vie for African-American votes this week with appearances before the NAACP convention in Cincinnati, a stop with potential opportunities and pitfalls for both candidates.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; blackvote; electionpresident; laraza; mccain; mccainlist; naaclp; naacp; obama; outreach; racehustlers; racists
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To: rabscuttle385
Can you say Pissin in the wind? What an Idiot!
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posted on
07/13/2008 6:14:40 PM PDT
by
crazydad
To: rabscuttle385
McCain should stop wasting time on these sheep. The vast majority of blacks in this country have swallowed the Kool-Aid.
McCain should be on TV every day bashing that commie SOB Obama on everything that Stalinist does. If Obama passes gas, McCain should be on TV calling the Obamunist a hypocrite on globull warming for releasing methane. Hit this America-Hating D-Bag and hit him hard. Don’t stop until he is a bloody pulp on the ash heap of history with his beloved Soviet Union.
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posted on
07/13/2008 6:21:51 PM PDT
by
exile
("Get off the phone, ya big dope"- The Great One)
To: God luvs America
There is no downside to an appearance in the camp of the opponent. Independents and undecideds may well perceive his appearance at NAACP positively even though they themselves have nothing to gain in the process. If George Bush had attended and purveyed his "compassionate conservatism" in 2000 the world of politics might be very different today.
I see no virtue whatsoever in telling a large voting bloc, "F- you, I'll win without you.
To: Brilliant
No it is a required appearance for the centerist campaign McCain is running. He will not win any votes by going, but he will not risk losing votes from his middle of the road base by not going.
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posted on
07/13/2008 7:01:47 PM PDT
by
JLS
To: goldstategop
“Blacks will sooner vote for the KKK than they will vote for ANY Republican. Not in this lifetime.”
In 2004, President Bush got 11% of the black vote. That was a 2 percentage point increase over the 9% of the black vote that he got in 2000. In a really close election, 11% can be the difference between winning and losing. We all remember Florida’s 2000 electoral votes and the national election being decided by less than 300 votes in that state.
I have always find it wise not to give any potential constituency group more reasons NOT to vote for you.
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