Posted on 12/11/2019 4:39:43 AM PST by Kaslin
Some polls in recent weeks have provided an encouraging picture for President Donald Trump of strengthening support among black voters.
I like these kinds of reports. But I wonder how much of reality they are really capturing.
The Wall Street Journal, for instance, reports on new polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation showing outsize support from blacks for "Medicare for All."
According to this report, 74% percent of blacks compared with 69% of Hispanics and 44% of whites support a single-payer health care plan.
Even when told that there would be a high likelihood that such a plan would mean eliminating private insurance and raising taxes, a large majority of blacks still support the idea.
This isn't exactly the kind of polling data I anticipate from a population that is supposedly discovering that socialism is not a good idea.
Additional recent polling from The Economist/YouGov on Dec. 1-3 gives more reasons to question that there are seismic changes taking place in black political attitudes.
The pollsters asked, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"
Among all respondents, 46% said that they are better off now, and 32% said they were better off four years ago.
However, among blacks, only 30% said they are better off now, and 42% said they were better off four years ago.
Given the headlines about a robust economy and historically low unemployment rates, you have to wonder what black voters are thinking.
Black unemployment is now at a historically low 5.5%. This is 4 full percentage points lower than the 9.4% unemployment rate where black unemployment stood exactly four years ago. Such a change is transformational. Yet it doesn't seem to have impacted black political thinking.
Hispanics also do not seem to be swept away by the good economic news. Despite Hispanic unemployment now at 4.2%, 2.2 percentage points less than it was four years ago, only 37% say they feel better off now, and 39% say they were better off four years ago.
In contrast, 50% of whites say they are better off today, and only 29% say they were better off four years ago. White unemployment now stands at 3.2%, 1.2 points less than four years ago.
Layering on to the sobering news about black attitudes toward those now in charge in Washington, according to The Economist/YouGov poll, 71% of blacks compared with 50% of the general population say the country is "on the wrong track."
And 73% of blacks compared with 45% of the population at large say the House should impeach President Trump.
I think all of this should ring a loud wake-up call for Republicans, and for blacks and Hispanics.
Republicans should wake up to the fact that very good economic news that positively impacts all Americans does not seem to be moving black and Hispanics voters to a more positive attitude toward President Trump.
Blacks and Hispanics should wake up to the fact that if, indeed, they get the country larded down with the big government they seem to want, they, their children and their grandchildren will pay a dear price.
Thirty-one percent of blacks and 38% of Hispanics are under the age of 21 compared with 23% of whites. The burdens of increasingly large government spending, and the debt that goes along with this, will fall disproportionately on those parts of the population that are now the youngest -- African Americans and Hispanics.
And the costs of an economy that grows more slowly, the inevitable result of expansion of government, will also fall disproportionately on those who most need economic growth -- African Americans and Hispanics.
As I have been saying for many years, Republicans need to communicate more effectively with our minority communities about public policy ideas. If they don't, our entire country could wind up paying a great price in 2020.
Thirty-one percent of blacks and 38% of Hispanics are under the age of 21 compared with 23% of whites. The burdens of increasingly large government spending, and the debt that goes along with this, will fall disproportionately on those parts of the population that are now the youngest -- African Americans and Hispanics.
And the costs of an economy that grows more slowly, the inevitable result of expansion of government, will also fall disproportionately on those who most need economic growth -- African Americans and Hispanics.
This requires a mindset with an orientation towards the future, not simply the here and now. That is woefully missing in a lot of African Americans and Hispanics.
Kaiser Family Foundation=uber Left.
Besides almost no candidate is pushing this nonsense anymore.
How does the GOP “communicate more effectively with our minority communities” when their hostility to the GOP, whites, and conservatism is politically and culturally defining?
That may be true, but it’s not like Kaiser has an interest in seeing any group support single-payer healthcare.
Yes, because they need "special" communication. Every other "community" can look the hell around and see the truth for themselves.
It doesn’t appear that the Blacks and Hispanics they asked, can do math or have good memories.
“As I have been saying for many years, Republicans need to communicate more effectively with our minority communities about public policy ideas. If they don’t, our entire country could wind up paying a great price in 2020.”
Tilting at windmills and arguing with the Bell Curve is a exercise in futility.
Nevertheless, black support for President Trump is growing. Dems have a very thin margin for error here. They cannot afford to lose much of the black vote without relegating themselves to permanent minority status.
The employment numbers are astounding, especially given President Trump’s short time in office.
Meanwhile, dems and Fake News put 100% of their time into Romper Room antics.
Black unemployment has never, in the history of the republic, been this low.
Latinos are feeling the full impact of the Trump Tax Cuts. That demographic tends to lean entrepreneurial and represents a large faction of small business owners.
I would never take any poll seriously without knowing who paid for it.
And, always keep in mind, we will see unprecedented reverse Bradleyism this time.
This is what democracies do. The voters vote themselves freebies, paid for by taxing someone else. That’s how democracies fail.
But Kaiser does know a Lib Administration will be far more favorable towards them than a Conservative one.
Kaiser is single payer. They are a prototype of what the government wants: a clinic where you get assigned to a doctor, it is impossible to see specialists, and you wait in long lines for everything.
Not only that, Kaiser will be at the forefront in bidding to run the government clinics.
Star needs to wake up: most minorities don't want to be employed. They want to be taken care of, and they want white people to do it. Period.
There should not be a “black vote” or a “white vote” or any other group vote. There should be an “American vote.” Unfortunately, that’s an impossible dream, since the democrats have created groups and set one fighting against another for a piece of the pie.
What they should be doing is encouraging all people to work hard and create a bigger pie, then there’ll be more to eat for all.
Exactly
Democracies and corrupt Representative Constitutional Republics
Shame on you. What you are is a racist. You should not call yourself a perfect lady. You are anything but
It is not Single Payer health,
it is You Pay Other’s health insurance.
Republicans should be calling it, You Pay Other’s.
Democrat lies and bad premises go unchallenged.
Apparently blacks are too easy to lie to.
Bell curve.
TIME TO BRING THIS UP
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