They gave it their best shot, using everything from fear-based radio ads telling blacks that Democrats want to “snuff their seed,” to trotting out the tiny numbers of black Republicans at campaign stops and displaying them prominently. But new polls show the GOP hasn’t really reached black voters.
Black voters are far less likely to approve of the way President Bush is doing his job than voters generally and they are more likely to feel that the country is on the wrong track…
In what could be a particularly bad sign for Republicans in next week’s midterm elections, black voters also are more likely to say that the Iraq war was a mistake and that recent disclosures of scandal and corruption in Congress will be very important to their vote, according to an Associated Press-AOL Black Voices poll conducted Oct. 23 through Monday.
You can’t blame the Republicans for trying. Many black Democrats feel taken for granted and ignored so Repubs hoped they were ripe for picking.
And having personally just worked on a campaign for a black state representative, I have to say it seems like white Democratic candidates get healthy black support but the reverse is not always true. Unless you’re talking about Barak Obama, of course, and then people of every hue can’t gush enough.*
But black Democrats find themselves in the same pickle as white fundamentalist Christians — what cha gonna do? No matter how much the Republicans take evangelicals for granted, or how pissed off the Christian right gets, it’s not like they’re going to come over to our team instead.
So we’re all stuck. The Democrats are stuck with morons like John Kerry and the candidate Republicans love to hate most — Hillary Clinton. The Republicans are stuck with George Bush and John McCain and George Allen. And third parties keep coughing up hairballs like Ralph Nader. We’re all screwed.
* Including me.
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