[Hot Tabasco]

Excellent article but fails to mention that the majority of the black/white public who vote socialist do so in the high pockets of union/church control. Example being, Detroit where the majority of people are black and attend churches, the churches with the aid of the U.A.W. bus the voters to their respective polls in mass and give them candidate specific literature on which to base their votes. This was most evident in the 2000 election

Such precincts are over-ripe for voter fraud to occur and there is no doubt in my mind that such fraud exists. The same can also be said about the other socialist bastions here in Michigan: Dearborn, Flint, Bay city and Saginaw.

These voters do not have the interest in politics to know what is right or wrong for them and come election time, only get out to vote because their church leaders or UAW representatives are willing to pick them up and drive them to the polls. These same folks do not watch the news, read the newspapers and only rely on their peers to help them make their decisions come election time.

While Michigan has a Republican governor, I think 2000 was the telling story about the socialist drive to stock our government with fellow socialists and this does not bode well for Tuesday's election of governor here in Michigan.....

[mafree]

Excellent article but fails to mention that the majority of the black/white public who vote socialist do so in the high pockets of union/church control. Example being, Detroit where the majority of people are black and attend churches, the churches with the aid of the U.A.W. bus the voters to their respective polls in mass and give them candidate specific literature on which to base their votes. This was most evident in the 2000 election.

You make a good point here in that most of the "organized" Black political action happens through the unions and the churches. Both are essential to this happening. Why? Well, a proportionately high number of Blacks belong to unions and many who do not are favorable towards unions. The unions have money, organization, and numbers, not to mention the ability to scare their members around job-related issues. Mess with the J-O-B, you mess with the only thing standing between most folks and homelessness. Especially when they have little or nothing in wealth or savings.

What the unions do is go to Black churches where they will be able to mobilize blocs of Black voters. They will not go to every Black church, especially to those percieved as leaning Republican, but they will find a receptive home in most Black churches.

Can the GOP successfully use the unions and the churches to get more of the Black vote? That would seem to be almost impossible without compromising some GOP core values in order to promise all kinds of goodies and special protections to Blacks.

Yet, one way I could begin to see it happening is if Republican-leaning unions (yes, there are a few) and GOP-voting union members start organizing and start working with Black churches (and other organizations) that are at least willing to consider GOP issues and candidates.

Any other ideas?