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Can Rand Bring Blacks Back to the GOP?
Posted on 7/19/14 at 8:19 am
Posted on 7/19/14 at 8:19 am
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Fifty years after Goldwater, the Kentucky Senator is trying to repair the GOP's image with African-American voters.
James Poulos
07.18.14
Fifty years ago this week, a divided and feverish Republican Party nominated Barry Goldwater to lead them to victory. Instead, he led them to a smashing defeat.
There are many reasons for that catastrophe, and some on the right enjoyed a hearty last laugh when Lyndon Johnson abandoned the White House. But ridding themselves of Johnson did not mean that Republicans got back the black vote. Black Americans deserted the Goldwater GOP en masse, and they never came back—not even in the party’s ultra-dominant Reagan years. To be sure, the Reaganaut Jack Kemp made African Americans a powerful pitch. But Kemp belongs to a different time, and that time has now been long in passing.
Now it’s fallen to Rand Paul to revive his party’s standing with black Americans. After the splashy performances that sealed his reputation (a filibuster here, a standing ovation at Berkeley there), Paul has settled into something of a grind as the rest of the GOP’s presumptive presidential contenders take turns trying to cement themselves as the party’s antithesis to all things Paul.
Most recently, that’s meant a public poking contest between Paul and Rick Perry over the merits and demerits of Barack Obama’s Iraq policy, such as it is. Their dueling opinion columns crystallized the party’s central conflict: re-litigating the Bush legacy at large.
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Posted on 7/19/14 at 8:21 am to RollTide4Ever
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Senator Rand Paul Is Not Afraid of Black People
Roland S. Martin
July 16, 2014
There is no white Republican elected official today who is coming close to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's effort to reach out to black voters.
When the GOP opened an outreach office in Detroit, Paul was there. Earlier this month, he spoke about education reform to a group of African-Americans. Last year, Paul gave a speech at historically black university, Howard University, where he owned up to the party's failure to connect with black voters. And he has taken positions that have irked some in the GOP, including discussing voter suppression efforts and the failures of mandatory minimums in the criminal justice system.
What Paul is doing is not going to these venues and waving the GOP flag. He's raising issues that are in the wheelhouse of black voters and, at least, getting them to listen to his perspective.
Critics, namely hardcore Democrats, see Paul as nothing more than a charlatan trying to bolster his credentials in advance of a 2016 presidential run. OK, fine. Maybe that is the case. But black voters can't on one hand say Democrats take us for granted, and then when a white Republican extends his hand, we can't cut it off.
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Posted on 7/19/14 at 8:36 am to RollTide4Ever
10-15% max. Blacks will never vote for any White that cuts advantageous programs for their race. Just like most Whites won't vote against a 'Thad Cochran' who brings home the (QE) bacon to them.
But he may do some societal good re race relations. Hell, it can only go up after Obama/Holder; since they've put us in the place of one economic collapse away from going over the race-war edge.
But he may do some societal good re race relations. Hell, it can only go up after Obama/Holder; since they've put us in the place of one economic collapse away from going over the race-war edge.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 8:43 am to RollTide4Ever
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There are many reasons for that catastrophe, and some on the right enjoyed a hearty last laugh when Lyndon Johnson abandoned the White House. But ridding themselves of Johnson did not mean that Republicans got back the black vote.
And just look how blacks in America thrived.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 9:09 am to RollTide4Ever
Sure, all he has to do is explain to the blacks how the Democrats have been duping them for so long. THat's sure to gain votes.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 9:10 am to RollTide4Ever
Yeah he could peel off 5% if he stays the course. I'd like to say that black unemployment would help, but with all the programs in place to pay for them to stay that way, who the hell knows? But 3-5% gets the job done, IMO. If the dems don't throw up a black candidate, then the stay at home bunch should make victory possible.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 9:43 am to RollTide4Ever
:raceboard:
Posted on 7/19/14 at 11:14 am to RollTide4Ever
Also, I thought this board disliked the GOP as much as they do democrats?
Posted on 7/19/14 at 2:20 pm to RollTide4Ever
No. Too many blacks on the government dole to convert to conservativism. No matter how good the GOP candidate and how bad the DNC candidate, a majority of blacks will always vote Democrat. No being racist, just being honest.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 2:23 pm to RollTide4Ever
The exodus of blacks from the GOP can be traced much further back than Goldwater. Warren Harding's shitty response to the Mississippi flood really damaged the image, and then Roosevelt made them a part of his coalition.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 2:39 pm to RollTide4Ever
not unless he promises them more money
Posted on 7/19/14 at 2:45 pm to RollTide4Ever
The GOP's biggest problem is the perceived hostility toward minorities. They're going to have to overcome that problem, and it's going to take multiple election cycles to change that image.
Problem is that in the short term they have to hold their base together and that base includes the Angry White Man (TM).
Problem is that in the short term they have to hold their base together and that base includes the Angry White Man (TM).
Posted on 7/19/14 at 2:46 pm to RollTide4Ever
I won't have any faith in the black community until they started voting the way most black folks I know claim to believe: conservatively.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 3:34 pm to RollTide4Ever
There are some responses in this thread that is not helping Rand Paul at all in his outreach.
We all know how poorly off blacks have been under the democrat party and continuing to vote for them but reminding them of that in a harsh way will not get you anywhere. You catch more flies with honey, not vinegar.
Anyway, if Rand can get 10 to 17% of the black vote, he wins the general comfortably.
We all know how poorly off blacks have been under the democrat party and continuing to vote for them but reminding them of that in a harsh way will not get you anywhere. You catch more flies with honey, not vinegar.
Anyway, if Rand can get 10 to 17% of the black vote, he wins the general comfortably.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 7:49 pm to RollTide4Ever
quote:en bloc? No.
Can Rand Bring Blacks Back to the GOP?
Regardless, Rand's efforts are long overdue from a GOP stance.
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