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Post by matt on Nov 1, 2012 23:39:04 GMT 10
Very interesting video:
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Post by spindrift on Nov 2, 2012 5:05:39 GMT 10
Only one black American....supporting a white honkie ...never see him in the audience when Romney is on the campaign trail.
In the years ahead it will be a Latino President...in charge of the gringo's..
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Post by slartibartfast on Nov 2, 2012 6:25:48 GMT 10
How many white americans support a black president?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2012 8:54:47 GMT 10
You're reducing the U.S. election to a vote on race Matty-Boy? Matty-boy is "twisted in the head". Matty-boy has been sucked in by "hallelujah, praise the lord" pentecostal cults. And we all know what pentecostals get up to. You only have to look at the post I made in another thread a couple of days ago (click on the link).... |
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Post by pim on Nov 2, 2012 8:59:06 GMT 10
No I don't think Matt is trying to reduce the US elections to a vote on race. But what I do think Matt is doing is clutching at straws.
The Republicans in the US have become the White Backlash Party and in fact that particular course was set for them with the "Great Society" laws of the Johnson Presidency in the 1960s which dismantled Jim Crow. Johnson won i 1964 against Goldwater who scared the bejesus out of America with his sabre rattling threats to nuke Mocow. I don't want to trawl through US political history of the 1960s with George Wallace as the unreconstructed anti-bussing Gov of Alabama, Martin Luther King etc etc, but LBJs desegregation laws basically delivered the South the the Rpublicans and they cleaned up under Nixon, then Reagan ... and so on. White Americans vote more often and are a more reliable voting bloc so it's a vote that can be mobilised. It's the basis of the Republicans' electoral strength.
Obama on the other hand would win easily if he managed to mobilise blacks and Latinos to the same degree and that's the challenge for him. Polls put black support for Obama at over 90%. It's a no-brainer of course. Why would an American black vote for a Republican? And yet, in amongst the millions of blacks, if you look hard enough, you're goinna find a black individual who is going to vote fo the other side. So what. So the guy in Matt's video is part of the 1% of blacks who will vote for Romney.
The real problem for Obama is getting out the vote. Blacks and Latinos support him, but they don't necessarily vote. And that's the problem for him.
In a real sense, Hurrican Sandy could end up being the best thing ever for Obama's campaign. The world was treated to footage of Obama being Presidential and the inevitable comparisons were made with Bush and Katrina - comparisons that made Obama look very good.
Money can't buy this sort of publicity. It's pure electoral gold. Romney could only stand on the sidelines and fume.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2012 9:36:38 GMT 10
In a real sense, Hurrican Sandy could end up being the best thing ever for Obama's campaign. The world was treated to footage of Obama being Presidential and the inevitable comparisons were made with Bush and Katrina - comparisons that made Obama look very good. Money can't buy this sort of publicity. It's pure electoral gold. Romney could only stand on the sidelines and fume.  |
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