Posted on 09/13/2006 7:23:23 PM PDT by dukeman
Washington, DC -- With the balance of power in Congress hanging in the air, a leading African American businessman says black voters in the United States should put their historical pro-life values above political party. That means voting for pro-life candidates rather than supporting Democratic candidates across the board.
Herman Cain is best known as the former chairman and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza. He is a political commentator and was a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
“More and more African Americans are pro-life," Cain said in a statement LifeNews.com obtained. “Our message to African Americans is simple -- it's time you vote for candidates who support our values."
Cain will underscore that message with a $1 million advertising campaign in key states and congressional districts targeting black radio programs and urban radio stations young African Americans enjoy. Some of the ads focus on abortion.
The campaign is a second go-round based on a highly successful Ohio campaign in 2004 that helped President Bush garner 17% of the African American vote in the Buckeye State – double his vote total from the 2000 presidential race.
The ads appeared in Dayton, Cleveland and Cincinnati Ohio, as well as in Colorado, Minnesota, Florida, Georgia and other states.
The ads are funded by Americas PAC, a Cain-backed organization, which former Al Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile said did a great job in turning out black pro-life votes.
Americas PAC's African American radio strategy “hampered our ability to expand the off-year electorate in 2002," Brazile said.
The new campaign should resonate again with black voters as polls show African Americans are more pro-life than Americans as a whole.
In an August 2004 poll sponsored by Pace University and Rock the Vote, 54 percent of all Americans declared themselves pro-life while just 44 percent said they supported legal abortion. However, African-American voters took a pro-life position by a larger 59 to 42 percent margin.,p>
As a snapshot of that support, polls in Florida found that 77 percent of black Americans backed a measure on the 2004 ballot to notify parents before a minor teenager's abortion. Some 65 percent of Florida voters in general voted for the measure that November.
With black voters so strongly pro-life, black commentator Star Parker says that the increasing desire to support pro-life candidates this election is the beginning of a trend.
"Black pastors and their congregants are waking up to the fact that the liberal agenda that they have been supporting all these years does not liberate but denigrates, dehumanizes, and enslaves," Parker said.
Since the 1973 Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited abortions, 15 million abortions have been performed on black women. African-American women also have abortions hat much higher rates than do white women.
PING
GO HERMAN!
TREMENDOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS so much for the ping!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE THIS MAN!
The defection of high visibility people (like Bill Cosby) and those willing to their money where their mouth is (like Mr. Cain) is the beginning of the end of the RAT plantation.
GO HERMAN PING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man, I hope he spends some in Pa.
ping.
That is great!
I think Herman...is just one.
I saw a clip of Michael Steele today..and he was telling his voters that he plans on going to Washington and shaking things up...
I was thinking earlier today...that to hear the dems crying about how WE possibly CAUSED a civil war in Iraq, by going there and getting rid of Saddam...
that a civil war is the WORST thing in the world...
If true, and it was WRONG for America to fight a civil war...then I guess they would be okay with the idea of slavery being still used...(I know that wasn't the ONLY reason for the war...just like the WMDs wasn't the ONLY reason for the Iraq War).
GREAT POINT! VERY GREAT POINT!
they have holes in everything they cry about!
God bless Herman Cain!!! I hope it is concentrated in 4 states; Pa for Stallworth, Md for Steele, OH for Blackwell and ???
I look forward to seeing its demise. This mentality is something I briefly went through myself I'm embarrased to admit.
The Democrats/MSM/LIBS are going to be furious about this.
ping
We were young and naive. Also, having walked in their shoes and now looking back in a new light of faith simply makes us better and stronger conservative soldiers.There is no shame in leaving the evil mist to join the righteous light of American Patriotism.
Herman Caine is great. I voted for him in the primary, over Johnny Isakson.
While Isakson has been much better than expected, I still would have liked to have seen Herman get that one.
I forget who said that................FRegards
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