Concha: As Bleak Prospects Show, Democratic Race-Baiting Tactics Being Rejected

Mediaite ^ | October 31st, 2014 | Joe Concha

[walford]

As you may have heard, we’re now only four days away from the 2014 midterms and gubernatorial races mercifully coming to an end, save for a likely runoff in Louisiana. And as you’ve also heard lately, race–for all the wrong reasons–has become a central theme for the party in blue.

Speaking of the Bayou State, its likely-to-be-unemployed-after-said-runoff and current senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) had this to say to Chuck Todd (a good get via hustle by the new MTP moderator, by the way) regarding the reason behind her not inviting President Obama for help on the campaign trail:

“The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans. It’s been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a very positive light as a leader.”

So it isn’t the President’s toxic national approval rating (hovering at or slightly above 40 percent depending on poll) or the fact that Mr. Obama isn’t being invited to campaign for any vulnerable senators up north or west or east either. Nope. Ms. Landrieu says it’s about racism…the overriding subject for Democrats who don’t seem to prefer to talk more about Obamacare or economic or foreign policy issues on the trail this year.

Exhibit A: Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) on Thursday at a campaign event for Governor Andrew Cuomo, who will easily cruise to victory in deep blue New York and therefore isn’t exactly in need for hysterical hyperbole:

“They don’t disagree — they hate! They think if you didn’t come from Europe 30 years ago, you didn’t even make it. Some of them believe that slavery isn’t over and they and think they won the Civil War!”

Can’t blame the 84-year-old Rangel for thinking this way. He was likely following the lead of the current vice president, who once told an African-American audience during another campaign two years ago that the GOP will “put y’all back in chains” if they didn’t vote Democratic.

Yup…the bigots are so desperate they don’t even know how to properly race-bait anymore. Here’s Alma Adams (D-NC) last Saturday at a campaign rally for Senator Kay Hagan in the Tar Heel State: “We need to send Uncle Tom — Tillis, that is — home.” Thom Tillis is a white guy, but no matter.

So what does one member of left-leaning media think about these kind of tactics? Presenting Alex Wagner of MSNBC, she of a 41 in the demo in the latest ratings report…far and away the lowest number of any of the 27 programs on said report that includes late-night repeats:

“It shouldn’t have to be the threat of undermining civil rights that gets people to vote, but if it does, so much stronger the party is for it.”

Fortunately for those who aren’t blind ideologues and actually can smell this kind of nonsense from a mile away, prospects for Democrats are looking very bleak come Tuesday night. Nate Silver–who suddenly has no idea what he’s doing if you listen to the aforementioned blind ideologues–says via fivethirtyeight.com that Republicans have a 68.5 percent chance of winning back the Senate. The New York Times Upshot has it at 71 percent, while the Washington Post’s Election Lab has it at 95 percent.

And this is with a mostly-clumsy GOP not exactly running exemplary campaigns in terms of message and execution. As Charles Krauthammer proclaimed on Fox earlier this week, “If the GOP can’t win back the Senate in a climate like this, maybe the party ought to look for another country.”

If that happens, perhaps Hillary Clinton — the most likely Democratic nominee — will take pause before playing the race card from the bottom of the deck against whomever her Republican opponent in 2016 is (if that person happens to be white). As we’ll see Tuesday if the models above are any indication, it’s thankfully becoming a losing strategy that neither party should consider playing (See: Graham, Lindsey, R-SC, stupid joke).

Most Americans–except for those trying to make a name for themselves in politics or as a provocative pundit–are tired of gutter rhetoric and everything being seen through the prism of race and gender.

Hopefully the upcoming election helps proves it.

[walford]

This quote is telling:

>>Alex Wagner of MSNBC, she of a 41 in the demo in the latest ratings report…far and away the lowest number of any of the 27 programs on said report that includes late-night repeats:

“It shouldn’t have to be the threat of undermining civil rights that gets people to vote, but if it does, so much stronger the party is for it.”<<

So these people are willing to risk life and limb by fraudulently inflaming racial tensions, not caring if innocent shopkeepers' stores are looted or innocent pregnant women are punched out merely for being the wrong color in the wrong place at the wrong time.

If that's what it takes to get members of the Party of Jim Crow elected and re-elected, so be it.

Appalling.

[Fledermaus]

If that happens, perhaps Hillary Clinton — the most likely Democratic nominee — will take pause before playing the race card from the bottom of the deck against whomever her Republican opponent in 2016 is (if that person happens to be white).

Actually, IF the Republican opponent is black, the race card will be doubled down on.

[Clintonfatigued]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEntZUx24s8

[walford]

Actually, IF the Republican opponent is black, the race card will be doubled down on.

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Absolutely. We have seen the vitriol that black and female conservatives/Republicans get for daring to stray from the Democrat plantation.

[ConservingFreedom]

Yup…the bigots are so desperate they don’t even know how to properly race-bait anymore. Here’s Alma Adams (D-NC) last Saturday at a campaign rally for Senator Kay Hagan in the Tar Heel State: “We need to send Uncle Tom — Tillis, that is — home.” Thom Tillis is a white guy, but no matter.

The phrase is meant not to convey an idea but to evoke a Pavlovian response.

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[WilliamofCarmichael]

Democratic Race-Baiting Tactics Being Rejected

I think the best news is that the heretofore beneficiary of the likes of Obama-Holder demagogues, the race-grievance industry, and the MSM employees' hype about Black Americans always being the victims -- the "victims" themselves are rejecting it too.

These crime figures show what a tiny minority of all races are doing.

My point is they obliterate the notion claimed by the likes of Obama-Holder demagogues, the race-grievance industry, and the MSM employees that Black Americans are in constant danger from White Americans and must now fight back. "Every black child is a potential Trayvon who is regularly stalked by whites."

Murder for example.

Expanded Homicide Data
Table 6 data for multiple years.

FBI Homicides Statistics

Year of Stats	Race of Victims	Total	White Offenders	Black Offenders	Unknown & other
2012	White	3,128	2,614	431	83
	Black	2,648	193	2,412	43
2011	White	3,172	2,630	448	94
	Black	2,695	193	2,447	55
2010	White	3,327	2,777	447	103
	Black	2,720	218	2,459	43
2009	White	3,518	2,963	454	101
	Black	2,867	209	2,604	54
2008	White	3,643	3,036	504	103
	Black	3,024	230	2,722	72
2007	White	3,587	2,918	566	103
	Black	3,221	245	2,905	71
2006	White	3,709	3,026	573	110
	Black	3,303	208	3,034	61
2005	White	3,785	3,150	516	119
	Black	3,289	230	2,984	75
2004	White	3,727	3,123	522	85
	Black	3,067	228	2,784	55
1995	White	4,954	4,124	699	131
	Black	4,764	281	4,422	61

I did not find data for the years 1996 through 2003

www.fbi.gov About Us CJIS UCR Crime in the U.S. Here's the links to most of the FBI tables I referenced above.

Here's 2012

Here's 2011

Here's 2010

Here's 2009

• choose Continue to Crime in the United States, 2009
• choose Homicides
• choose Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

Here's 2008

Here's 2007

• choose Homicides
• choose Expanded Homicide Data Tables / Table 5

Here's 2006

• choose Expanded Homicide Data
• choose Expanded Homicide Table 5

Here's 2005

• choose Expanded Homicide Data
• choose Expanded Homicide Data Table 5

[Billthedrill]

Party over country, they’ll do it every time. I don’t think the Dems realize how sick people are of relentless hatred and racism - they’re not, and nobody they know is. I think they’re about to find out.

[walford]

As it is with Muslims, blacks are victimized by each other far more than all other demographics combined.

[gogeo]

“If the GOP can’t win back the Senate in a climate like this, maybe the party country ought to look for another country party.”

Fixed that.

[Intolerant in NJ]

‘Rats have a real dilemma with their race-baiting tactic - for years they’ve been scaring blacks into voting for them by threatening that if they vote for Republicans there’ll be terrible racial incidents like - say - the Trayvon Martin affair and Ferguson - but we keep having incidents like Trayvon Martin and Ferguson which ‘rats themselves keep publicizing to keep blacks scared - eventually black voting behavior for ‘rats will extinguish, since it’s not reinforced by an end to awful racial incidents - probably sooner than later.....