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BY JONATHAN CAPEHART
The Growth and Opportunity Project, aka the autopsy, was heralded as the Republican Partys clear-eyed assessment of its 2012 presidential defeat. Autopsies are done on dead things, and ever since its March 2013 release, the GOP has done everything possible to stay dead.
The Republican Party is dead to African Americans. Not that there was much of pulse to begin with. Romney won 6 percent of the black vote to 93 percent for Obama, which isnt surprising since Romney was looking to unseat the nations first black president. But it is also not surprising considering all of the voter suppression efforts around the country.
That the GOP ought to try to appeal to African Americans was recognized in the autopsy. There are numerous outside groups that are studying the best way for the Republican Party to better reach African American voters, the report pointed out. The Republican Party should leverage the best practices identified by such organizations. You employ that best practices nonsense when you and your staff havent a clue what to do. And its clear that if Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee who is black, were still head of the party, at least two egregious episodes would not have happened.
A tweet from the partys official Twitter account on Sunday would not have celebrated Rosa Parks on the anniversary of her historic bus-boycott arrest by lauding her role in ending racism. Sure, the tweet was later corrected. But, come on, people. The lowest level black person at the RNC could have told them that the tweet as flat-out wrong and offensive. Not that anyone would have listened, assuming there are any low-level black people there.
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Blue Owl
(50,263 posts)n/t
n2doc
(47,953 posts)LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)That's what that smell is.
Excellent
spanone
(135,792 posts)die fuckers.
TlalocW
(15,374 posts)I think they're inflating Romney's numbers on the African American vote.
TlalocW
Z_California
(650 posts)Romney received 0 votes in more than a dozen Cleveland precincts. Yes, 0 votes. I'm not a mathematician but unless Ohio is just way out of whack with the rest of the country, it seems highly unlikely that a candidate with 6% support among African Americans could come away with 0 votes in in more than a dozen precincts.
I think McCain had 4% of the AA vote in 2008.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)And the fetus worshippers, for whom that is the only issue. And gun worshippers. And Fox propaganda believers. Maybe they add up to 6%.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...wielding enormous power, poisoning our discourse and successfully preventing real reform.
Dead? Perhaps, but more than alive enough to get most of what they want.