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To: SteveMcKing

Ignoring for a moment the question of whether or not these polls are accurate, you are wrong about there not being enough Black votes to matter.

After the 2000 election Karl Rove spoke often about the 4 million Christians who didn’t turn out to vote. He made a big push to get them out in 2004, including an unprecedented push in Black churches hitting the issues of abortion, gay rights, and gay marriage real heavy in the churches.

The strategy paid off. In 2004 Bush won more than double the number of Black votes in Ohio as he won in 2000. The 14% of the Black vote he won in Ohio gave him the state and the election. Had he lost Ohio, the Florida vote would have been meaningless. We would have President Kerry today.

The election is not won on the popular vote it is won in the Electoral College. In several key states, like Ohio, Democrats can’t win the state without getting 90% or better of the Black vote. Ed Rollins knew that and went after the Black social conservatives in Reagan’s 1984 landslide win. Rove followed that lead in 2004 and saved the election from going the other way.

The Democrat Party leaders wet their pants when they see the Black vote slipping anywhere. Any Republican candidate that can pull more than 10% of the Black vote is an odds on favorite to win the Presidency.

None of this is saying that I’m convinced that Dr. Paul can win that much of the Black vote. However, if he really could pull more than 20% of the Black vote he would walk away with the election.


98 posted on 10/30/2007 1:39:28 AM PDT by SUSSA
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To: SUSSA
"None of this is saying that I’m convinced that Dr. Paul can win that much of the Black vote. However, if he really could pull more than 20% of the Black vote he would walk away with the election."

That would only presume he'd hold all of the GOP vote, and you and I both know, ain't gonna happen.

100 posted on 10/30/2007 1:42:49 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: SUSSA

If Ron were your normal Republican candidate, the party unified and all, I would agree that the 33% of that demographic would be important. Ron would have to pull the conservative party members along, and IMO he’d lose ten times the votes there that he would gain in the group you address.


110 posted on 10/30/2007 1:53:17 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (We yen to be numba one. We find Crintons to be vewy good people. Worth every penny.)
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