Harvard Institute of Politics says Millennials breaking for GOP.

[Savannahmann]

18. You should have looked at some of the links

There were several, and each one was used to back up a specific assertion.

For the outreach. Let's look at one, and then take it to another link. The Call and Post, a traditional Black Newspaper. They endorsed John Kasich. John Kasich the Republican Governor of Ohio. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2014/governor/oh/ohio_governor_kasich_vs_fitzgerald-3758.html

They list several reasons, but this is the biggie.

When it came down to the monstrosity of monetary benefits and contracts associated with the quickly approaching Opportunity Corridor in Cleveland, Kasich went above and beyond expectations. Opportunities like the Opportunity Corridor usually means “inopportunity” for us, but not in this case. Of the $267 million in construction contracts on the Corridor, Kasich set aside a staggering 20 percent for minority-owned and disadvantaged firms. That’s about $22.7 million dollars “specifically” for Black-owned businesses, not to mention an additional half a million dollars thrown in for job training of area residents. And even this came with some maneuvering from him on our behalf with the Federal Government and Turnpike Board.

The Republican went way above expectations and earmarked twenty percent of the contracts for Black owned businesses. Way above expectations to say the least. That is the kind of outreach I'm talking about. Is John Kasich the stereotypical Republican? No, but there are very few of them left.

Rand Paul campaigned in Detroit recently. http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2014/10/republicans_try_pushing_into_d.html

While Residents are seeing their water turned off, Rand shows up and talks about how his economic plan would help the city. It would bring jobs to the city, manufacturing jobs, which generally speaking pay pretty good.

So the outreach is happening. The Republicans are putting in the effort, some are putting in more, some are putting in less. But they are putting in some effort, and as the poll from Harvard shows, it's having an effect. We'll have to wait for the exit polls, but we can't take the Black community for granted any more. We have to earn those votes, we have to earn the votes of the people. We can't just sit back laughing that the Blacks would never vote for the Republican. They are. The black community is starting to see that there are a handful of Republicans that are going to pay attention, and they are going to respond. Because if you give them a choice between someone paying attention, and someone paying lip service, which way are the people going to go?

The Latino Community is rebelling against the Democrats, because we've been paying lip service to them. We've lost a lot of support in the Hispanic community, double digit loss of support. 71% of Hispanics voted for President Obama in 2012. Today, it is 59% that wants the Democratic Party in charge. These numbers are denounced as impossible, but they are reflected in polls across the nation. Daily Kos sees it. Huffington Post sees it. Democrats doing poorly in elections all over.

There is an old adage. You can't fix it if you don't know what's broken. I'm trying to tell the Democrats, and the Democratic Party what is broken, so we can fix it. I've been trying all year. Those who are dismissive now, will be shocked on election day. They'll be all over denouncing the idiots who voted for the Republicans. They'll blame the media, they'll blame the candidates, and they'll blame everyone but the party.

We have got to stop making the classic mistakes. We have to stop pretending that the Republicans are idiots who are going to roll over and die just because we hate them. They want to win, and they are working for it. Right now, it's a minority of the Black Community that is leaving us for the Republicans. But how long can we hemorrhage that kind of support and stay viable as a national party? How long before we are the fringe party with a token of representation in Congress?

They are not idiots. They are wrong on a number of issues IMO. But they are not idiots. We have to take them seriously, and we have to pay attention and meet them argument for argument, debate for debate, and we have to earn those votes with hard work and tireless dedication. We can never let our supporters think that they don't matter. We can never turn our backs on those who got us where we are. We are losing support, and it's hurting us. Do we denounce those who leave as traitors, or do we work to get them back?