Posted on 10/16/2008 1:17:00 PM PDT by pissant
MINNEAPOLIS — The first vote Tracy Hatfield ever casts in Minnesota will belong to Barack Obama.
Here in the heart of north Minneapolis' black community, on a block dotted with board-ups and Section 8 subsidized rentals, this once homeless mother answers the door with her 3-year-old grandson, Travonte, clinging to her leg.
"I can't wait to vote," Hatfield, 44, tells Veronica Andrews, an area church member who is out on her first door-knocking drive for Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate.
"It's not a black thing, it's not a white thing," Hatfield says. "It's just different. Everyone around here is going to vote. I wish the kids could vote."
This year's presidential campaign is expected to generate record voter turnout in black communities across the nation -- partly through the efforts of young, new volunteers such as Andrews, joining a black political mobilization that hasn't been seen in decades. National efforts to date have registered an estimated 1.3 million new voters, more than 60 percent of them minorities.
In critical battleground states such as Florida, the Obama team is targeting 600,000 black voters who are registered to vote but who don't show up regularly on Election Day. A big turnout by new, or newly interested, black voters there and in other pivotal states such as Virginia and North Carolina could redraw the electoral map for Obama on Election Day.
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Bwahahaha! That number is so ludicrous as to be laughable!
Every 4 years we hear about hugh GOTV efforts by Democrats.
Sure /sarc
What are they? A bunch of damned racist who won’t vote for whitey?
See any problem with the new revised headline? If the original headline worked for you, I would expect the revised version to be equally acceptable.
Both are acceptable to me. But the PC police would have the FBI investigating for civil rights violations.
*cough, cough* BULL$H!T *cough* (It's a black thing.)
"Everyone around here is going to vote. I wish the kids could vote."
Hey, don't you worry! With the help of ACORN and the corrupt Democrat party, THEY CAN!
The first thing that struck me about this post is that hatfield is 44 years old and has never voted in her life. I have been voting since I am 18, although there were a few years in my late 20’s early 30’s that I didn’t vote—I had been moving around a bit.
Why, you didn’t write the headlines ... LOL.
f the PC police, that’s just intimidation by another name.
So basically, these individuals are voting based on the race of the candidate. Which of course means they are racists.
HATFIELD?!! HAHAHA. TOO RICH!
“...wish kids could vote...
...Hey, don’t you worry! With the help of ACORN and the corrupt Democrat party, THEY CAN”!
My thot exactly!
You know, if you are not motivated enough to care about voting in your countries elections, so be it that’s your choice. To coddle people who can’t can’t even function on a daily basis without someone paying their way is insulting to me.
My gosh, I think if our forefathers could travel time and see what has become of their sacrifices and the gift they had given us in the Constitution, they would say we need a revolution.
They are targeting less number of blacks then the ones who voted in 2004? In Florida 900,000 blacks voted in 2004.
Not time for a Far-Left, America-Hating, Black-Theology, Baby-Killing, Wealth-Spreader, Liberal Marxist!
No matter what color his skin!
If someone like Ken Blackwell or Mike Steele were our nominee this year, I wonder what these voters would be saying....
My thoughts are: If you’re on welfare, you should not be able to vote, there I said it.....
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