Posted on 10/13/2014 6:26:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Republicans need to pick up six seats in November to gain control of the Senate.
Consensus to date points to good prospects of this happening.
But one state where the picture remains unclear for Republicans is North Carolina. Republican challenger, speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives Thom Tillis, has failed to pull ahead of Democrat incumbent Senator Kay Hagan and average of latest polling shows him behind 3 to 4 points.
Mitt Romney won North Carolina in 2012 by three points. In the last ten presidential elections, Republicans prevailed in North Carolina eight times.
North Carolina is anything but a boilerplate blue state. And the Hagan-Tillis face-off is as pure liberal vs. conservative as you can get.
Tillis is an experienced legislator and solid conservative.
So whats the problem?
One issue is the volatile black vote. Not volatile as to their consistency to vote for Democrats but whether or not they show up to vote.
North Carolina, with a population that is 22 percent black, is a laboratory this November for whether the Republican challenger can successfully point to the dismal record of the Democrat incumbent regarding black progress and convince black voters that they should not vote for more of the same.
The big question in states like North Carolina, and with black voters nationwide, is how long will blacks continue to buy what they have been sold for years by liberals.
Hagans story line for black voters is the same as what liberals always tell blacks.
Dont vote for the conservative because the conservative wants to cut government money. And dont vote for the conservative because the conservative is for rich people, and theyre racist, and they, as Joe Biden said, want to put you back in chains.
But will these voters really believe that the black poverty rate in North Carolina stands at 34 percent, versus 13 percent among whites, because taxes are not high enough or because government spending is not expansive enough?
Or that the graduation rate of black males in North Carolina is, according the Schott Foundation, just 58 percent, because government is not spending enough on public schools?
Maybe blacks will finally grasp that government spending really benefits the political class and not the lower class.
Median income in North Carolina in 2013 was $45,906 compared to $90,149 in the national capitol Washington, DC-Arlington-Alexandria region.
The political class in Washington and the mainstream media can complain that outside money is being spent in North Carolina. But the fact is that because of the aggressive growth of government, all Senate races are national.
So yes, the National Rifle Association is getting its message out in North Carolina about the importance of 2nd amendment protection. While crime ravages most black communities, only 13 percent of blacks, compared to 26 percent of whites, own guns.
And yes, the Susan B Anthony List is getting its message out in North Carolina about the abortion extremism of liberals like Hagan.
While black women account for only 7 percent of the nations women of childbearing age, they account for 35 percent of the abortions and Planned Parenthood, the nations largest abortion provider, with 79 percent of its clinics targeting black communities, has pledged $3 million to support Kay Hagan.
And yes, black conservatives are in black communities in North Carolina pointing out that big government means slow economic growth, and this hurts blacks. The black unemployment rate in North Carolina is more than double that of whites.
In a recent Pew survey, only 26 percent of blacks nationwide said the situation for black people in this country is better today, compared with five years ago.
Black voters sent Kay Hagan to the U.S. Senate in 2008. Maybe as blacks start taking a closer look at Hagan, and other liberals, they will start having second thoughts.
Pandering and apologizing are the wrong way to go
150 years ago the lifeblood of over a half million white men became part of our soil in payment for the greatest mistake in our nation's history.
Slaves eventually gained citizenship, and TRILLIONS in 'interest' have subsequently been extorted from the average family, 99.9% of whom NEVER had ANY connection to slavery.
Any debt that was owing is long since paid in full.
I wish to God we'd have opted for flax>linen, or picked our own damned cotton.
Clearly, blacks aren’t the only problem since they are only about 13% of the population, but there are over 50% living free off the productive members of society. Why would those people give up their free cell phones you and I bought them? This Republic is doomed because we don’t have politicians who do what the country needs to be done instead of what gets them reelected.
Yes.
And those blacks who are not on the dole are the ones most likely to take advantage of affirmative action.
It really shouldn’t be a great surprise that they (and Hispanics) vote the way they do.
Fraud is serious problem and it seems to aided and abetted on a large scale by black churches and volunteers ensuring "no vote is left behind". It is anticipated that just having independent poll watchers sanctioned by the state will cut down on the voting scam's rampant in my area.
Beyond this initiative to keep the voting honest, the normal process is to appoint three people to each station, agreed upon between the County Chairs of the Republican and Democrat party, in open forum. This process allows each party to feign honesty in selection of trained poll workers; these people are paid a nominal fee, and they are essentially the government officials at for the elections at the voting stations.
The biggest problem I have personally seen is the aforementioned bus loads of voters who are bussed to every precinct with a name to vote at every station. This is organized fraud and makes one wonder how this can be considered an extension of the Christian Churches routine activities during election times.
I would be ashamed and couldn't live with myself if I could only get something through fraud, but then the rats have no shame
It’s all they know some things never change.
“If It Isn’t Close They Can’t Cheat” —Hugh Hewitt
Not really, being that there are only 23 paragraphs and 15 of them are single paragraphs.
Shaming them about taking the "free stuff" doesn't appear to work, more's the pity.
It is difficult to run against Santa Claus.
Yes. Next question?
Good luck with that. Telling black Americans that they are responsible for their own problems would be like telling a person who is hitting himself in the head with a hammer to stop it only to be told by the person holding the hammer someone else is hitting them in the head. Namely nasty, white racists.
Six or seven thousand black males are gunned down every year by other black males but black Americans choose to focus on a few cases where black males are killed by police (almost all justified shootings) to show they are still victims of terrible racism.
In short, telling the truth does no good. They are resistant to facts and reality.
Yep. Our last chance to turn them was over gay marriage, and it appears the majority has decided to just shut up and keep cashing their checks.
The Democrats can invent new programs, throw money in all kinds of directions, and march with Al Sharpton in every city. At the end of the day, in 2034, are things better? Has anyone ever paid attention to that platform for black concerns? Want to maybe give it a try?
Honest, principled, consistent politics. Anything other than that is pandering, and no one panders better than the Democrats, so why try to compete?
I voted only once
straight Republican.
The same way some “conservatives” buy the GOPE line, two voting blocks of a kind, just different parties...
Perpetually abused and taken for granted, treated like dirt and they come back for more, although the democrats do open the government purse to their abused block of voters. The GOPE just doubles down on the lash to theirs.
Of course, that candidate would be immediately lambasted as a terrible racist. Something like they do now anyway with many craven Pubbies (Rand Paul) wagging their tails hoping for a pat on the head from the race vultures. I guess an honest candidate couldn't hurt more than craven pandering does now.
What I'd like to see:
Republican: "Blacks are their own worst enemies. The ghetto culture is opposed to education, marriage, jobs, or adherence to the law. If they behaved better, their socio-economic status would improve. This is not whitey's fault. It's all up to black people to fix themselves."
Media: "That man is a racist!!"
I see no downside to this. It's the same-old same-old, but at least we get to tell the truth.
“It’s not your fault” > “get off your ass and work”
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