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'The Democratic Party gets a lot of mileage out of blaming problems in the Black community on White people,' says the Manhattan Institute's Jason Riley ..."There's a racial spoil system in place... It's very lucrative..." ...But now, the tide appears to be turning as President Biden loses support among Blacks and Hispanics, which gives Democrats incentive to change their messaging. "Joe Biden's numbers among blacks and Hispanics have really fallen off considerably. To a point where Democrats can't win elections if they're only getting 65 70% of the black vote," Riley said....

President Donald Trump has garnered the highest percent of nonwhite voters of any Republican presidential candidate in 60 years, while also doubling his support from voters in the LGBTQ community from 2016. ..According to preliminary data from exit polls, conducted by Edison Research for the National Election Pool, Trump has received 26 percent of votes from nonwhite voters....Dating back to 1952, the only Republican presidential candidate who received more support from nonwhite voters than Nixon was President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956.... ...According to the exit poll, 28 percent of Americans who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender said...

Universal theories can have a certain tidy attraction. In science, they can result in revolutionary breakthroughs — Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity comes to mind. In the messy realm of human affairs, however, universal theories have a tendency to fall apart. Ruy Teixeira, of the leftist Center for American Progress, provides a textbook example of a brilliant man developing a theory for determining the course of politics in America. In the 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority, Teixeira and coauthor John Judis asserted their theory that minority voters who prefer Democrats grow as a share of the electorate by 2...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday offered his Republican Party a prescription to win: show up. Christie, fresh off a 22-percentage point win for re-election, said the GOP must go into Hispanic and black communities, talk with seniors and campaign in traditionally Democratic-leaning areas. It’s what helped him become the first New Jersey Republican in a quarter century to capture more than 50 percent of the vote. It also has done nothing to tamp down chatter about a 2016 presidential bid, something many have encouraged. “I know everybody is going to be speculating about what may come in my...

Much has been made this election of the "undetected" voter, from new voters to cell-phone voters. But there is another undetected voting block that will make a crucial impact on this election: Serbian-Americans. There are up to two million Serbian-Americans, about a million of them registered voters. It is estimated that two-thirds of them are concentrated in seven battleground states: in Ohio (esp. Cleveland), Wisconsin (Milwaukee), Florida, Missouri (St. Louis), Pennsylvania, Michigan (Detroit), and New Jersey. In the past they had been split along party lines, with a slight majority favoring Democrats. Not this year. Thanks to a “get-out-the-vote” campaign...

LITTLE ROCK - Many credit President Clinton's visit to Pine Bluff four years ago on behalf of Mike Ross as turning the tide for Ross in the 4th District congressional race. Ron Oliver, state chairman of the Democratic Party, said Friday he hopes Clinton's visit Sunday will have the same effect for John Kerry and give the Democratic presidential nominee the bounce needed to win the state on Tuesday. "Yes, he could easily have the same effect this time," Oliver said about Clinton's appearance Sunday at a rally at the Aerospace Education Center near the Little Rock National Airport. The...

President George W. Bush couldn't make time for an interview with Black Entertainment Television, but he did sit down last week in the White House's Map Room with Mario Kreutzberger, also known as "Don Francisco," host of Univision's variety show, Sabado Gigante, for an interview that will air Oct. 30. Bush was interviewed for the show Oct. 21, just two days after declining a long-standing invitation from BET saying the President couldn't fit it into his schedule, according to BET. Democratic candidate John Kerry will also appear on Sabado Gigante Oct. 30. His interview (both interviews were about 12 minutes...

Last week in St. Louis Missouri, a racially-charged pamphlet has been the latest attempt made by Democrats to win minority votes in the African-American community. “This is what they used to do to keep us from voting,” proclaims the brochure, featuring a photo of a 1960’s snapshot of a firefighter hosing a colored person. “Now Attorney General John Ashcroft is trying to prevent African Americans from voting at all. Don’t let them do it again." Missouri Democratic spokeswoman Sarah Howard insists she absolutely will not pull the flier. This is an outrage. This year the attempts made by both parties...

I wasn't going to post this, but I'm about ready to stroke out. Why are we always on defense? We need to take the fight to democrats before it's too late. They're trying to scare minorities into voting for them. Well the President needs to run ads in urban areas describing his Opportunity Zones, School-Choice Plan, and his faith based iniatives. He needs to encourage African Americans and Latinos to vote for him on November 2nd. The democrats always talk about wanting to improve the lives of minorities, well President Bush actually has a plan to do so. The word...

MIAMI (AP) -- With just three Sundays left before Election Day, Sen. John Kerry is asking for all the help he can get from black voters and the Almighty. The Democratic presidential nominee attended two church services Sunday, instead of his usual one, worshipping first with Haitian Catholics and then with Baptists, where the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton tied his election to the civil rights struggle. "We have an unfinished march in this nation," Kerry said at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, as many congregants waved fans handed out by the campaign with his slogan, "Hope is on the...

Some drivers along George Washington Way honked in support Thursday afternoon as they passed the long line of women and children waving flags and political signs in support of John Kerry, while others yelled out their support for George Bush. And an hour later, Tri-City members of the Hispanic National Republican Assembly gathered to cheer and jeer while watching Bush and Kerry debate, then hit the phones to urge other Hispanics to vote. National polls show the votes of women and Hispanics could be the deciding factors in the contentious election. "I feel very strongly that women should take the...

A group of Democratic insiders that has spent some $40 million on advertising against President Bush is rolling out new campaign commercials telling urban blacks “don’t keep getting played” and accusing Bush of turning his back on them. “Bush has a plan for America. But you’re not part of it,” says one television ad being released Monday. Another claims: “Bush said prosperity was right around the corner, but he wasn’t talking about the corners in your neighborhood.” The Media Fund plans to spend a relatively large amount for minority media — about $5 million between now and Nov. 2 —...

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA - Don King, the wild-haired boxing promoter, is touring the country with Republican National Committee (news - web sites) chairman Ed Gillespie to tout President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election. "Only in America," as King often says — and he did at a stop in Philadelphia Wednesday. "People understand that George Walker Bush is the man with the plan to make America better," King, sporting an American flag tie and plenty of diamond-encrusted jewelry, told a group of black business leaders at a downtown jazz club. "Sometimes, just sometimes, it ain't too...