AP Poll: GOP outreach to blacks falters

[sabra]

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/politics/15894551.htm

AP Poll: GOP outreach to blacks falters
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - So much for the Republican charm offensive toward minorities. 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, disheartening news for a Republican Party that has been trying to curry favor with minority voters in recent years.

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.

Black voters have historically voted Democratic, and their votes are critical to Democratic hopes to win tight Senate contests in Tennessee, Missouri and Virginia.

Unhappiness among black voters is reflected by L.C. Washington, a 41-year-old Democratic graduate student from Montgomery, Ala., who says Bush is "the worst president in history," not to mention "the dumbest president I've ever seen - he's the devil." Washington lays blame for a laundry list of ills at the Republican Party's doorstep.

[KingFlorez]

1. I knew it would

The response to Katrina showed blacks exactly what the Republicans stand for.

[tblue]

2. Black people have historically voted for the common good

and, though many are very Christian and socially conserviative, we are not easily duped

[shanti]

16. who is the person in your avatar?

??

[BulletproofLandshark]

17. That's Randi Rhodes of AAR

[jaysunb]

19. Amen !

Well put.

Our Democrat brethern would do well to listen to what we're saying. They'd find a lot of common sense.

[Hav]

3. .

Allen(Racist-Virginia): "Hey n******, why don't you like us?"

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. Their spin? Media spin? "We are getting 0.0032% of the black vote - which is

far better than 0.0030%" or some other piece of crap spin?

[KamaAina]

5. The poll also shows that water is wet

and that the sun rises in the east. Any questions?

[me b zola]

6. The gop is delusional

The gop's idea of "reaching out to Black voters" is attempting to bribe Black church pastors with faith based initiative money. So far they have had, at best, luke-warm success with this tactic, but it still scares me.

[central scrutinizer]

7. reaching out to.....

......push them off the gravy train as they try to climb aboard. I love opportunists like Clarence Thomas who got a lot of help through affirmative action but then come out against it.

[still_one]

8. It should especially based on the Virginia and Tennesee

campaigns

In 2004 some black churchs were so anti-gay that they backed republicans. I hope they realize that what goes around comes around, and that they have been used. It sure appears that way

[gratuitous]

9. Watch your back, L.C. Washington

The last guy who called Bush the devil is still getting pilloried for it, weeks later. And that guy was kidding around.

And "GOP outreach," wotta laff! "Hey boss, the homeys still don't like us very much." "Touchy bunch; it was prolly that whole 'macaca' thing, huh? Fucken George Allen. What about all of 'em that Steele's recruiting in Maryland? I mean, with a tight focus, we can make four or five of 'em look like they'd fill the Superdome." "Uh boss? Mebbe you shoulden mention the Superdome?"

[warrens]

10. Color me shocked

I was so sure this would go well for the racist nazi geeks.

[LibDemAlways]

11. You can bet black voters will rush out to

support "macaca" - not. In 2000 Allen got something like 17% of the black vote. This year he'll be lucky to get 17 votes from black people.

[LibDemAlways]

12. Self-delete. Dupe.

[NorthernSpy]

13. That "Ford is an ambitious, race-mixing negro!" ad probably didn't help...

And that thing wasn't the work of some local wingnut, either; it came straight from the RNC. I don't imagine they'll find too many blacks who appreciated that.

[greeneyedboy]

14. gee, i wonder why.

[retread]

15. Wasn't there a poll showing chimpy's approval with African-Americans lower

than the margin of error?

[meow2u3]

18. Repug charm offensive towards minorities? WTH?

It's short on charm and long on offensive.

[NOLADEM]

20. I guess their "C'mon, Slavery was fun, wasn't it" Campaign didnt go over well

Let's check in with the Log Cabin outreach campaign.

[BronxBoy]

21. Well the bigger story here is...

not that Blacks are not gravitating to the Republican party. That has always been a joke. A myth floated by those who would have you think that the Republican party would hange their ways.

But if you spend any, ANY, substantial time in a Black community or talking to a cross section of our folk, you would know that this is and has always been a joke.

The bigger issue is that when we were disenfranshised in 2000 and 2004, the Democratic party did not raise holey fucking hell.

I'll post a more in-depth thread later