Republican National Committee spends big to persuade Jersey minorities to vote GOP

Star Ledger ^ | October 26, 2013

[SMGFan]

TRENTON — The Republican National Committee is spending more than a half-million dollars to get New Jersey Hispanics and African-Americans to vote GOP, part of its Election Day blitz to lure voters to the polls on Nov. 5.

[SMGFan]

"In Jersey City today, 80 Hispanic voters will collectively shed their Democratic voter affiliation and register Republican, the RNC said."

Yippee! /s

[fieldmarshaldj]

So they paid them $6,250 each ?

[GeronL]

That would probably be cheaper

[US Navy Vet]

Can you say “Fools Errand”?

[thestob]

I’d be guessing they are trying to up Christie’s % of the minority vote by a little bit, so they can spew that talking point when they foist his fat ass on us in 2016

[rrrod]

Hispanics maybe, blacks never...is what it is........

[SMGFan]

haven’t heard CC name any Democrat State Senators or Assembly members who should be defeated...

[Lancey Howard]

Wow. How much “free sh**” are the Republicans offering?

[elpadre]

money would be better spent electing more of the base - the conservatives, that is!

[vaudine]

Will this REALLY offset the conservatives they are begging to leave the party? I don't think so.

vaudine

[MaxMax]

What’s the gimmick, Vote for the other Democrat party?

[slowhandluke]

What a waste of money.

It would have been nice if the Republicans had reached out to the Conservatives a bit and supported Steve Lonegan for Senate. That was close enough that a bigger effort might have won it, and that effort certainly would have carried over to the November elections. As it is, I'm sure that they've pissed off more conservative votes than they will win among the Hispanics in Jersey City or elsewhere in the state.

Maybe antagonizing the Lonegan supporters is why they have to pick up a few new voters in Jersey City.

[GeronL]

The point is this is what the GOPe would rather spend money on, since they don’t spend any to help conservative candidates

[RedMDer]

[birdsman]

We need Conservatives to explain to them WHY we’re conservative, and why it would benefit them to vote for conservatives. I used to be a democrat and considered myself to be liberal. It wasn’t until I started to actually pay attention before I became conservative.

[leprechaun9]

They may want to save some of that money to try and get support from life long REPUBLICANS!

See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3084050/posts

The CHRISTIE lawn sign that I had up just came down!

[morphing libertarian]

and who in the NJ GOP would fit that description?

[from occupied ga]

Republican National Committee spends big to persuade Jersey minorities to vote GOP

Waste of money. Better to just buy their votes like the Democrats do

[God luvs America]

effing fools...hey; how about they embrace people like Starr Parker, Deneen Borelli, Thomas Sowell, Allen West, etc...you know- black Americans who are real conservatives and are more than willing to get the message out??