Very weird flyer by Blackwell against Strickland in Ohio...odd one.

[madfloridian]

Putting out a flyer like this makes me wonder if there is any sense at all in the collective brains of the GOP leaders.

http://www.cleveland.com/weblogs/openers/index.ssf?/mtlogs/cleve_openers/archives/2006_07.html#162790

"Black voters should be afraid of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland, who is white.

That’s the implied message of a glossy new piece of campaign literature being distributed by Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell, who is black.

It features an image of a black man, dressed in a T-shirt and baggy sweatpants, who looks as if he’d just seen a ghost, mouth agape and hands up. The image is also distorted, which makes the man’s head as big as his torso. The headline reads: “Strickland for Governor? NO WAY!”

Residents in Cleveland’s East Side suburbs, which is home to more blacks than Cleveland’s West Side suburbs, received the flyer.

The flyer also cites numerous Strickland votes that Blackwell believes make him “wrong on education, wrong on religious freedom, wrong on crime, wrong on marriage rights and wrong on small business.”

Blackwell spokesman Carlo LoParo took umbrage with the assertion that the campaign literature has any racial overtones.

“We didn’t make Ted Strickland white and or Ken Blackwell black,” he said."



Thanks to Renee in Ohio at HEP for finding and sharing this.

[Mythsaje]

1. I've got a counter-flyer...

"Blackwell...even if you DON'T vote for him, he'll try to steal your vote anyway."

:evilgrin:

Damn, I'm a bastard.

[rucky]

2. He thinks black voters are stupid.

but still feels the need to suppress their vote at every turn.

On the other side of the coin, there are some legitimately stupid white GOP-ers who won't vote for Blackwell because he's black. I'm not sayin' Strickland should leaflet the white GOP strongholds with that exact message - but it may be to his benefit to post a photo of his opponent somewhere in his campaign materials.

just sayin...

[Hidden Stillness]

3. Step One of "The Set-Up"

It reminds me of the tactic used by the corporate Republican Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans, who was such a total disaster during the hurricanes last year. Falling behind in the polls to challenger Mitch Landrieu, Nagin made this weird "chocolate city" comment, supposedly jumped ahead in the polls, and then, when Nagin shockingly "won re-election" and many people thought it was another stolen Republican election, myself among them, the whole Nagin campaign and Republican media had their phony hook-"explanation"; that the black voters ran to the polls to vote for Nagin as soon as Nagin said "chocolate." This may be used as the same phony ruse here: put out a weird race-bait, then when Republicans have stolen the election by a fake "vote count," they have the ready-made excuse that it was this flyer that supposedly actually did the trick. Their media, as always, will not investigate.

[EC]

4. I think all those angry Blacks that were kept from voting, knows

exactly who kept them from voting and I'm betting they are very vocal about it...

[caligirl]

5. So what would be the best way to point out Blackwell stole

the votes of black voters and suppressed the black vote in the last Presidential election?

[rucky]

6. Go to the tape: Show the lines in Franklin county in 2004. n/t