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The Red and the Black - Seeking black votes could be the GOP’s secret weapon.
National Review Online ^ | March 25, 2013 | Deroy Murdock

Posted on 03/25/2013 8:46:49 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: RHS Jr
How can Rinos be so stupid to think they will ever get any of their votes.

There is a way, but RINOs will never try it. See post 19.

21 posted on 03/25/2013 11:34:43 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: chris37

There it is. They might try running an actual Conservative and they wouldn’t have to worry about anything else.


22 posted on 03/25/2013 11:36:19 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: Carry_Okie

Well done. Have you noticed that many took the essay as a call to pander to blacks? I’m shaking my head.


23 posted on 03/25/2013 11:52:42 PM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem

Lol

The stupidity and ethnic and cultural suicide simply never ends

Stupid white folks may actually deserve their extinction


24 posted on 03/25/2013 11:55:27 PM PDT by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstrucbtion in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: RHS Jr
Nationally, registered independents are closer to 40 % of the electorate. From Mike Barone last November:

Starting next month, Americans in 25 states will have Republican governors and Republicans in control of both houses of the state legislatures. They aren't all small states, either. They include about 53 percent of the nation's population.

At the same time, Americans in 15 states will have Democratic governors and Democrats in control of both houses of the state legislatures. They include about 37 percent of the nation's population.

And the GOP needs to move left? I don't think so.

The independents didn't want illegal aliens getting driver licences. It was about three quarters of them and two thirds of rats on that question the last time I looked.

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender(LGBT) cohort may be about a few percent of the electorate.

25 posted on 03/26/2013 12:54:38 AM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem

I’ve concluded it’s time to stop getting angry at NR type media outlets and Republicans(Conservatism Inc.) and realize they will keep pushing idiocy because it allows them to keep the power they now have - they don’t care if it’s temporary power because they know the alternative is none. I’m middle aged now and over all these years not once have I seen the pubs or NR types state the GOP should run on a clear anti-racial preference platform, i.e. something that might actually work but would exclude them from the D.C. ‘Smart Set’ brie and chablis parties. It’s time to stop being Republican and looking to NR for ideas.


26 posted on 03/26/2013 12:55:23 AM PDT by kreitzer
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To: neverdem

Seeking the racist socialist vote...
NO not all blacks are socialist or racist...
JUST MOST OF THEM ARE.. pitiful but true..


27 posted on 03/26/2013 12:58:31 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: neverdem

The GOP can “seek” Black votes until the cows come home; they still won’t get any.

At least, not until they’ve learned to hand out cash benefits taken from Whites.


28 posted on 03/26/2013 12:59:56 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Better to have a new tea party reach those moderate women. The GOP is both damaged and corrupt.


29 posted on 03/26/2013 3:26:56 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: neverdem

‘If Republicans seek black votes’

How is that different from seeking the white vote? I mean we are all the same, right?


30 posted on 03/26/2013 3:55:42 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: chris37

The two things are not mutually exclusive, unless the GOP attempts to attract the black vote by pandering to the likes of the NAACP.


31 posted on 03/26/2013 4:20:56 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: neverdem

The GOP seeking black votes is like the US Secretary of State seeking Middle East peace. They keep chasing a fantasy that anyone with an IQ above room temprature could tell them will never happen.


32 posted on 03/26/2013 5:59:49 AM PDT by Hugin
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To: neverdem
Have you noticed that many took the essay as a call to pander to blacks? I’m shaking my head.

IMO, The propensity is primarily lack of familiarity with black culture. I had the "advantage" of living on the waterfront in downtown Oakland, CA for nine years and went to a local junior college there. It was quite the education sitting in the locker room listening to the conversations unseen in the next aisle. They think we're stupid chumps.

33 posted on 03/26/2013 7:36:42 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: chris37

Actually many of the black people I know here in the “Cradle of the Confederacy” would seem to naturally belong to the base of the GOP, talk to them in private about specific issues and many seem to be far more conservative than Rush Limbaugh but they vote the other way. I am personally acquainted with one black former Marine who sat on my couch some years ago and told me that he cannot understand why black people vote Democrat, the same man has spoken at two different Tea Party rallies I have attended. He was very well received and applauded. There are others like him.

Of course it is dangerous to even make the assumption that who we vote for even matters any more. I suspect that we are already at the point that the only thing that matters is who COUNTS the votes.


34 posted on 03/26/2013 7:44:38 AM PDT by RipSawyer (I was born on Earth, what planet is this?)
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To: neverdem
As natural a conservative group as the amnestied Hispanics would be.

That said, I think the GOP should be able to make inroads with Asian voters, who fall at the opposite end of the maker --- taker spectrum.

35 posted on 03/26/2013 7:50:24 AM PDT by white trash redneck (Just one of B. Hussein Obama's "typical white people")
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To: Deagle
Yes I do give up on Republicans and am going Libertarian or any other party that has a clue..

"Having a clue" excludes the pro-open-borders anti-age-of-consent Libertarian Party. You might consider the Constitution Party: http://www.constitutionparty.com/.

36 posted on 03/26/2013 7:51:03 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: FreedomPoster

If the GOP loses 90-100% of its base, and attracts 6-10% of 15% of a population within this country, which amount to 1.5% or less...

Their crushing and total defeat is going to be mutually exclusive the likes of which they have never seen and likely are incapable of understanding.


37 posted on 03/26/2013 9:21:56 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: RipSawyer

I know those people are out their, but they are too rare to matter.

Furthermore, even if they did matter, whether or not the GOP holds and office over a democrat does not matter.

We have serious, serious problems in this country.


38 posted on 03/26/2013 9:23:29 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: neverdem

I don’t see Republicans winning the Black vote any time soon, but 1) overtures to the African-American community may help Republicans with swing voters, and 2) the Black turnout for the Democrats is bound to go down next time, particularly if (as expected) their nominee is White.


39 posted on 03/26/2013 9:57:05 AM PDT by x
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To: neverdem

Yeah. Right. Go after the votes of a group that votes 85%+ for Democrats (95%+ in last two Federal Elections). It made more sense to go after Hispanic votes.
This clown is brilliant.


40 posted on 03/26/2013 10:01:13 AM PDT by Little Ray (No "Comprehensive" Immigration Reform. Fortifiy the Borders First.)
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