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October 29, 2012

Video: Black Voters Disappointed In the Liberal Democratic Agenda
— Ace

Interesting video by Rebel Pundit at Breitbart.

The video made me think of the Bradley Effect, which is usually thought of as whites falsely claiming they will vote for a black candidate, thus inflating the black candidate's standing in the polls, as compared to actual votes.

I'm wondering if there isn't a black Bradley Effect in play at the moment.

Blacks support Obama -- they say -- by 92-8. That makes sense, as blacks generally vote for Democrats by 90-10 or, at worse, 88-12. With a black president on the ballot, 92-8 seems pretty likely.

Except... except for the fact of Obama's record, which is generally miserable, and specifically miserable when it comes to soaring black unemployment and rising black poverty rates.

Plus, some progressive social policy adventurism, which is generally unpopular in the black community.

Now, the Bradley Effect posits that there is a "socially preferred" answer and, people being people, they offer the socially preferred answer -- sure, I'm voting for the black candidate -- in higher rates than they actually vote for that candidate. The voting booth makes no judgments, whereas in the usual sort of poll you're on the phone with a human being, who might.

It seems likely to me that within the black community there is an even stronger social preference to stating that one is supporting the first black president.

And so the polls might overstate Obama's support among blacks. Given the very high passions of some blacks about this -- Stacy Dash was vilified with the worst sort of racist and sexualized insults -- it just might be that more blacks are voting for Romney than are willing to say so aloud.

Now blacks only make up 12% of the population, and even a robust Bradley effect would only account for a 5% swing within that 12%; so we're not talking about large numbers of votes here.

Still, in a tight election, in a state like Pennsylvania... who knows.

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1

I still think that blacks will defect from the Dems en masse over gheybob "marriage."

They just won't vote.

Posted by: imp at October 29, 2012 02:01 PM (UaxA0)

2 I'm sure this post is "teh racist" in some manner.

Posted by: wooga at October 29, 2012 02:01 PM (vjyZP)

3
Wait, so black people don't want the countr yot move forward to some bizarre THX1138 genderless fucked up society?

I thought they did!

That's what the Frankfurt school dropouts in the Obama-land want, so I thought that since they support this guy so heartily, and don't wnt to ever have to work again for a single thing, they would follow forward!

I am shocked.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Bunny at October 29, 2012 02:02 PM (bjtq8)

4 Anecdote =/= data etc but I noticed when I was parking today that my next door neighbors' car has a Romney sticker on it. My next door neighbors are black.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at October 29, 2012 02:02 PM (Gk3SS)

5 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.Most black people realize this.

Posted by: steevy at October 29, 2012 02:03 PM (6o4Fb)

6 Doesn't scan with the black people I know... Pro-Obama all the way...

Posted by: The Robot Devil at October 29, 2012 02:03 PM (GtCbF)

7 Remember, we don't care if the black Democrats vote for Romney; we just want them to stay home.

Posted by: logprof at October 29, 2012 02:04 PM (jKE+Z)

8 Given the kind of racist attacks black Republicans are subjected to if they come out of the closet, I'd say the "Bradley Effect" is probably much more pervasive and intense for them than just about any other group.

Posted by: Jason at October 29, 2012 02:05 PM (YT5Q5)

Barky has certainly shut up about 'all things Ghey', since all those black pastors spoke up about the Ghey Marriage thing.

Posted by: wheatie at October 29, 2012 02:05 PM (ipkPX)

10 I don't know. My former roommate, an obsessive cult member since 2008, saw his own small investment business collapse under Obama, failed to get several more small businesses off the ground, lost everything, ended up homeless, selling plasma and performing in low-rent gonzo porn just to make a few extra bucks, and only has a roof over his head now because he's caring for a sick relative.

He told me last night that he voted for Obama again. He voted early.

It's a cult, and a lot of cult members are prepared to go Jonestown with it, apparently.

Posted by: Kensington at October 29, 2012 02:05 PM (znT2j)

11 Did I bury the lede? My roommate is black.

Posted by: Kensington at October 29, 2012 02:05 PM (znT2j)

12 My husband works with quite a bit of black people,hispanics too.hear a lot in the "break room" when heating up your lunch-seems some were a little worried after the first debate, some are planning to vote third party and some have said to hell with it

Posted by: concealed carrie at October 29, 2012 02:06 PM (dE+KV)

13 8 Given the kind of racist attacks black Republicans are subjected to if they come out of the closet, I'd say the "Bradley Effect" is probably much more pervasive and intense for them than just about any other group. I direct you to the post just below this one.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 29, 2012 02:06 PM (GEICT)

14 I am surprised there's no adam and steve PAC to take Obama's ghey luv into the inner city.

Posted by: joeindc44 is still above water level at October 29, 2012 02:06 PM (Z3ckx)

15 8 The "inclusive" left is anything but.Anyone who goes off the reservation gets targeted as harshly as any average white guy.Gay,black,Jewish,whatever,if you aren't left you are open to demeaning attacks.

Posted by: steevy at October 29, 2012 02:07 PM (6o4Fb)

16 yeah let's hope many of the unemployed/or small business citizens in america jump off the hope and change and unicorns , and want something more substantial than words, they want their jobs, homes, and pride back.

Posted by: willow at October 29, 2012 02:07 PM (hX8cq)

17 I like to say that government is made up of "Stuff White People Like." Really, Obama, in his ploy to fundamentally transform America, sold it to blacks as they had been on bottom, and now they were going to be on top. The expectation was that he would pay their mortgage and gas bill and whatnot. Instead, he is an academic liberal full of SWPL. Like Bill Ayers with a tan. Early on the whispering campaign was that he wasn't "authentic." Well, even white bread like Bill Maher figured that out. So I think that, yes, a lot of blacks will support him for reflexive Democrat reasons, and some will support him for race, but, really, the proof that a black man can be President is made, and a black kid rubbed his head and everything to make sure it was for real. So they can move on.

Posted by: Golan Globus at October 29, 2012 02:07 PM (vE/sd)

The black, Baptist Church in our area is totally O-bah-muhh-fied still.

Like Colon Powell, skin color trumps all else.

Posted by: Tim from Nashua NH at October 29, 2012 02:07 PM (LUJDk)

19 I LOVED Stacey Dash in "Mo' Money." And she has a brain. Fap, fap, fap the boy is fapping!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 29, 2012 02:07 PM (+tqYo)

20 Obama rode his shenanigans and tool for graft as a Community Organizer to political office. The people Obama allegedly organized are in greater poverty now for his passing. It is still said by local altruists that the Obamas moved themselves up by moving poor black folks down.

Posted by: Dept. of Accuracy Dept. at October 29, 2012 02:07 PM (+I8Mq)

21 yeah, also, depressing the black vote means also depressing inner city voter fraud. Unless you really believe St Louis and other cities truly have100% voter turnout for realz.

Posted by: joeindc44 is still above water level at October 29, 2012 02:07 PM (Z3ckx)

22 And are you ready for the punchline involving my former roommate?

In spite of the economic ruin his life has become under Obama, he said "social issues" were the deciding factor.

I was speechless.

Posted by: Kensington at October 29, 2012 02:08 PM (znT2j)

23 I don't know. My former roommate, an obsessive cult member since 2008, saw his own small investment business collapse under Obama, failed to get several more small businesses off the ground, lost everything, ended up homeless, selling plasma and performing in low-rent gonzo porn just to make a few extra bucks, and only has a roof over his head now because he's caring for a sick relative.

---

Bush's fault.

Posted by: mediumheadboy at October 29, 2012 02:08 PM (aHR5E)

24 I thought any mention of Stacey Dash was required to have pictures.

Posted by: CUS at October 29, 2012 02:08 PM (84pE9)

25 I wouldn't count on black votes for Romney. That tends to be a very monolithic voting bloc. Wasn't it Jay-Z or someone who said Romney would be a better president, but he's voting for Obama because he's black?

"Because he's black" is the all-purpose answer, Jesse Jackson's legacy in the destruction of the black community.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 29, 2012 02:08 PM (Y0jT/)

26 with regards to the Bradley effect? This is what we see in the UMW and other organizations, the powers that be tell ya one thing, but when you get to the voters booth? Eff 'em. Vote like your country depends on it, because it does.

Posted by: TheThinMan at October 29, 2012 02:08 PM (odBf4)

27 If blacks would ever wake up to what has happened to them for nearly 50 years, the Democrat party and liberalism would be finished. Utterly finished. How can we bring this about?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 29, 2012 02:08 PM (+tqYo)

28 Keep Obama in President!

Posted by: Barky's Hardcore Base at October 29, 2012 02:08 PM (jKE+Z)

29 Socially-preferred answer are detrimental to democracy. So, of course the Democrat Party favors them and does everything to maximize their impact.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 29, 2012 02:09 PM (SAA1o)

30 It's a cult, and a lot of cult members are prepared to go Jonestown with it, apparently.

The silver lining there is that elections in the future will be much easier on us.

Posted by: Methos at October 29, 2012 02:09 PM (hO9ad)

31 I think blacks would just stay home.

Posted by: Dr Spank at October 29, 2012 02:09 PM (4cRnj)

32 @22 social issues?
how selfish is it to vote for obama so that gheys can hypothetically get married? What other social issue is there?

Posted by: joeindc44 is still above water level at October 29, 2012 02:10 PM (Z3ckx)

33 8 Given the kind of racist attacks black Republicans are subjected to if they come out of the closet, I'd say the "Bradley Effect" is probably much more pervasive and intense for them than just about any other group. Posted by: Jason at October 29, 2012 06:05 PM (YT5Q5) --No doubt. Now we're seeing the same hatred dished out to gays, but at least in some circles a gay man can be just a man, but a conservative Black cannot hide his race.

Posted by: logprof at October 29, 2012 02:10 PM (jKE+Z)

34 "Because he's black" is the all-purpose answer, Jesse Jackson's legacy in the destruction of the black community.

---

If there is in fact a place called Hell, I hope FDR and LBJ's torments are particularly horrific.

Posted by: mediumheadboy at October 29, 2012 02:10 PM (aHR5E)

35 Post #10 - that says everything right there about Democrats and voting.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 29, 2012 02:10 PM (Y0jT/)

36 11 Did I bury the lede? My roommate is black.

Posted by: Kensington at October 29, 2012 06:05 PM (znT2j)

As long as your roommate is not a Lutheran, you're okay.

Posted by: Ammo Dump at October 29, 2012 02:11 PM (YYyqq)

37 "Bush's fault."
==========

Yup. He blames the Republicans for everything.

It's a cult, and Barack Obama is the cult leader.

Posted by: Kensington at October 29, 2012 02:11 PM (znT2j)

38 Blacks generally do not like Teh Gheys, and religious blacks are totally against Teh Gheys. More and more we are seeing that the individual grievance groups that make up the dummycratic hive really don't get along all that well, and that can depress the turnout when it counts.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 29, 2012 02:12 PM (jucos)

39 They're bargaining.

Did they say nice things about Romney?

I'd love to believe otherwise but I don't. As long as a group thinks in terms of community and getting their fair share from the federal government, they are on the wrong track and are doomed.

Don't call their bluff!

Posted by: Dang at October 29, 2012 02:12 PM (R18D0)

40 When are we going to have a post about who the fucking Irish are going to vote for?

Posted by: Dr Spank at October 29, 2012 02:12 PM (4cRnj)

41 Live in Chicago western suburbs. Romney sign on the lawn, couple people asked where I got it. Illinois has no chance to elect R&R, but we want these fckers on their heels. we WILL cast more votes against TFG than DE casts for, so we got that going for us...

Posted by: TheThinMan at October 29, 2012 02:12 PM (2WENO)

42 Obama went back to Washington to monitor the storm now we will see once and for all that he can "lower the level of the ocean"

Posted by: bobbymike at October 29, 2012 02:13 PM (9trNv)

43
yep, the just won't vote, but in deference to the Math Witch being near Halloween we have .12 X .05 = .006 or a six-tenths of 1 percent times 6 million voters = 36,000 votes.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2012 02:13 PM (PHb2k)

44 ROMNEY? HE SUCK!

Posted by: Obama's Genius Base at October 29, 2012 02:13 PM (znT2j)

tinyurl.com/9km8a44
tinyurl.com/9uuevk7

These two commercials are playing on BET in Ohio

Posted by: Dr Dave at October 29, 2012 02:14 PM (2VWva)

46 14 I am surprised there's no adam and steve PAC to take Obama's ghey luv into the inner city.

Posted by: joeindc44 is still above water level at October 29, 2012 06:06 PM (Z3ckx)

With a soundtrack composed of a vigorous ball sack to ass slapping.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 29, 2012 02:14 PM (BuSM8)

47 --No doubt. Now we're seeing the same hatred dished out to gays,

Oh that's not new. I've been told that being a queer conservative is exactly the same as being a Jew leading people to the ovens for, well, far longer than I'd care to admit. (See re: lawn, the getting off of) It's boring. The new one is that it's like the chicken supporting Tyson which makes my eye twitch because of the stupid.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at October 29, 2012 02:14 PM (Gk3SS)

48 And she has a brain. Fap, fap, fap the boy is fapping!

Do it shirtless in the rain with a horse head on your shoulders, and you'll get on the TV!

Posted by: wooga at October 29, 2012 02:14 PM (vjyZP)

49 VOTE LIKE YOUR COUNTRY DEPENDS IT

Posted by: TheThinMan at October 29, 2012 02:15 PM (2WENO)

50 That video makes me hopeful, but... A black woman at work told me she doesn't trust Romney because he doesn't let his wife talk. Yep. This is what we are up against.

Posted by: DeepBeam at October 29, 2012 02:15 PM (eKWTg)

Instead, he is an academic liberal full of SWPL. Like Bill Ayers with a tan.

He's NOT an academic. That's just Red crap to bolster his non-existent resume. He never held a faculty position, never published a jot. Being invited to give a few lectures doesn't make an academic.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 29, 2012 02:15 PM (U+DUu)

52 Anyone who supports Barky is an America-hater, cheering on the death of our nation. Plain and simple.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 29, 2012 02:15 PM (X3lox)

53 Don't think about blacks in terms of the *population* but in terms of Democratic voters.

That is, if 90 percent of blacks vote Democratic, blacks are 12 percent of the population, and the Democrats gets 50 percent of the vote, then blacks represent almost 22 percent of Democratic votes.

Democrats can't afford to lose *any* black vote--especially when their ground game is based on turnout. It's much easier going through a neighborhood and getting people to the polls when you know that 90 percent of the votes will be with you than when it's more of a mishmash.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at October 29, 2012 02:15 PM (vouc9)

54 ROMNEY? HE SUCK! Posted by: Obama's Genius Base at October 29, 2012 06:13 PM (znT2j) ----------------------------------------------------------- The written word simply cannot express the beauty of Ms. Obamapho's spoken word.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 29, 2012 02:15 PM (jucos)

55 anyone read this? http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/331892/benghazi-obama-emerges-fog-war-bing-west#

Posted by: concealed carrie at October 29, 2012 02:15 PM (dE+KV)

56 45 You know... It strikes me that BET is rather... what's that word... one never hears it so I'm prone to forgetting it... oh yeah... racist.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 29, 2012 02:15 PM (SAA1o)

57 They will just not vote, which is fine. I don't think AA's will ever vote republican, it's just ingrained in them to vote demo.

Posted by: Mitchy at October 29, 2012 02:16 PM (I1MMF)

58 He's NOT an academic. That's just Red crap to bolster his non-existent resume. He never held a faculty position, never published a jot. Being invited to give a few lectures doesn't make an academic. Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 29, 2012 06:15 PM (U+DUu) Bingo. By merit, Barky never would have made it out of high school.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 29, 2012 02:16 PM (X3lox)

59 Doesn't scan with the black people I know... Pro-Obama all the way...

I see black people sometimes on my crazy drive home from the bars in the morning. They seem to be pretty solidly in favor of Obama. Or maybe I'm just hallucinating again.

Posted by: Chris Matthews at October 29, 2012 02:16 PM (QKKT0)

60 That is, if 90 percent of blacks vote Democratic, blacks are 12 percent of the population, and the Democrats gets 50 percent of the vote, then blacks represent almost 22 percent of Democratic votes.

I was told there would be no math on this blog.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at October 29, 2012 02:17 PM (Gk3SS)

61 shit *ON*

Posted by: TheThinMan at October 29, 2012 02:17 PM (2WENO)

62 54 It's spelled (O)bamafo, foo.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 29, 2012 02:18 PM (SAA1o)

63 Failed to get several more small businesses off the ground, lost everything, ended up homeless, selling plasma and performing in low-rent gonzo porn just to make a few extra bucks, and only has a roof over his head now because he's caring for a sick relative.

Posted by: Kensington

Man, if that was about a chick instead of a dude? Totally hot story. Smokin' HOT. I'm picturing a nurse outfit with hot pants or something. Sponge baths. Yep, totally hot.

Posted by: Dang - feverishly twisting the end of his moustache at October 29, 2012 02:18 PM (R18D0)

More and more we are seeing that the individual grievance groups that make up the dummycratic hive really don't get along all that well

Imagine Jewish feminists talking up abortion to Hispanic women, and emo environmentalists bleating about the endangered hissing cockroach to blue collar union guys. Hilarity ensues.

It's probably why Air America went under. What exactly could you say to all Democrat groups simultaneously that wouldn't enrage at least one of them? "Knowledge is good?," the Faber motto? Almost anything would probably start a barroom brawl among them.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 29, 2012 02:18 PM (U+DUu)

65 47 --Oh that's not new. I've been told that being a queer conservative is exactly the same as being a Jew leading people to the ovens for, well, far longer than I'd care to admit. (See re: lawn, the getting off of) It's boring. The new one is that it's like the chicken supporting Tyson which makes my eye twitch because of the stupid. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at October 29, 2012 06:14 PM (Gk3SS) Lady Parts are only for voting, Waitress Sandwiches and cigars. Right?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 29, 2012 02:19 PM (GEICT)

66 That is, if 90 percent of blacks vote Democratic, blacks are 12 percent
of the population, and the Democrats gets 50 percent of the vote, then
blacks represent almost 22 percent of Democratic votes.

Crap. I thought the answer was 60 mph.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 29, 2012 02:19 PM (QKKT0)

67 I once knew a AA lady, she was pretty and had a Obama phone. She wanted to call her friend who worked in Libya but the Obama phone doesn't connect to Libya, her friend has never been heard from again.

Posted by: Mitchy at October 29, 2012 02:19 PM (I1MMF)

Here's another Jimmy Carter comparison. In 1976 Southerners had the first chance in almost a hundred years to vote for a mainstream Presidential candidate from the Deep South. Carter was very much a New South Democrat, the antithesis of George Wallace and Lester Maddox. Carter took every Southern state except Virginia. (What a difference 36 years makes: Ford won California, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey and Connebticut. )

Four years later Carter carried Georgia but no other southern state.

A lot of people, black and white, voted for Obama in 2008 because they wanted to elect a black president. A lot of them will vote differently this year.

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at October 29, 2012 02:19 PM (GQ3W3)

Much if not all of the reported "Bradley Effect" was due to "leading" pollsters (not just one of them) not conducting surveys in the Central Valley and similiar agricultural-oriented parts of California - where voters were fleeing Governor Moonbeam and the state Democratic Party for reasons from the death penalty to Medflies.

"It costs too much to send people out there to interview voters."

"We only need to interview in the largest counties in the state."

"Be reasonable, this is what the other(s) is/are doing..."

It was a lot of fun at the LA DNC affiliate that night...as both their pre-election poll and their exit poll blew up in their faces (just like the 2004 exit polls blew up).

So, to a considerable extent, the "Bradley Effect" was a face-saving lie from Day One.

Hopefully a preview of 11/6/2012 at the NYT and MSDNC.

Posted by: Frederick Stephan at October 29, 2012 02:19 PM (cc7il)

70

I'm down wit Obama because he has the checks.

Posted by: Peggy Joseph at October 29, 2012 02:19 PM (lDWQr)

i've always thought that the democrats have so fallen in love with the hispanic vote and agenda that it will turn off alot of the black vote and they may well return to the party of their grandfathers

Posted by: kj at October 29, 2012 02:19 PM (AW9md)

72 58 But isn't merit racist? Invented by Dead White Males to oppress Blacks...

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 29, 2012 02:19 PM (SAA1o)

73 Oh that's not new. I've been told that being a queer conservative is exactly the same as being a Jew leading people to the ovens for, well, far longer than I'd care to admit. (See re: lawn, the getting off of) It's boring. The new one is that it's like the chicken supporting Tyson which makes my eye twitch because of the stupid. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at October 29, 2012 06:14 PM (Gk3SS) --And some of those are the same people who worship Fidel Castro, who actually *has* herded people with AIDS into camps.

Posted by: logprof at October 29, 2012 02:20 PM (jKE+Z)

74 Obama pay my phone bill and mortgage. He also give me atm card that I can buy smokes with.

Posted by: Black American at October 29, 2012 02:20 PM (I1MMF)

Bingo. By merit, Barky never would have made it out of high school.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 29, 2012 06:16 PM (X3lox)

Come to think of it, we haven't seen his high school diploma or transcripts either, have we?

Barky's natural station in life? Toss-up between news reader and concierge in some upmarket Chicago hotel.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 29, 2012 02:21 PM (U+DUu)

8 The "inclusive" left is anything but. Anyone who goes off the reservation gets targeted as harshly as any average white guy. Gay,black,Jewish,whatever, if you aren't left you are open to demeaning attacks.

Posted by: steevy at October 29, 2012 06:07 PM (6o4Fb)

The Gays, Lesbians, Blacks, Jews, and others that leave the Dem reservation are often treated very harshly, because dem activists know their voices and votes will screw up the activist gravy train / ricebowl. After all, if the activist cannot deliver, what use are they? Dem activists are just like the Mafia, and will do anything to keep their "business" going.

A little intimidation and slander is just democrat activist business as usual.

Posted by: MSM will not cover this story at October 29, 2012 02:21 PM (zLp5I)

77 foolish to think blacks would ever vote for Romney. But I can see them saying to hell with it and just staying home. Which is just as good for our side.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2012 02:21 PM (z9wd2)

78 61 shit *ON*

Posted by: TheThinMan at October 29, 2012 06:17 PM (2WENO)

testicles *OFF*

Posted by: Rachel Maddow at October 29, 2012 02:21 PM (YYyqq)

79 71 To be honest,blacks have almost always voted for big government.They may have registered as Republicans in the old days but they always voted big government.

Posted by: steevy at October 29, 2012 02:22 PM (6o4Fb)

80 Kensington.. you just can't fix stupid.

Posted by: jewells45 says Romney wins in a landslide at October 29, 2012 02:22 PM (1hNQS)

81 I'm tempted to go on DU and moan about how Obama has abandoned progressives and we should all vote Green. Then I remember what happened to Pinocchio.

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at October 29, 2012 02:22 PM (GQ3W3)

82 Irish Americans overall are pretty reliably a Democratic voting block.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2012 02:22 PM (I7UGD)

83 BREAKING : Hurricane Sandy is raping people!!

RAPING PEOPLE!!!

Posted by: Shep Smith, reporting from Fire Island at October 29, 2012 02:22 PM (4cRnj)

84 A black woman at work told me she doesn't trust Romney because he doesn't let his wife talk.

Yep. This is what we are up against. Posted by: DeepBeam

Yes, but have you seen her do pantomime? She is fantastic.

Posted by: Dang - sipping spice milk tea in his skinny jeans at October 29, 2012 02:22 PM (R18D0)

@77

maybe not blacks in the 18-35 range but i can see 35 and up voting for romney

Posted by: kj at October 29, 2012 02:23 PM (AW9md)

86 Pinocchio became a real boy?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2012 02:23 PM (I7UGD)

87 75 Radio voiceover guy.

Posted by: steevy at October 29, 2012 02:23 PM (6o4Fb)

88 You know what Romney named his Buick station wagon?

Amistad.

True story.

Posted by: Stephanie Cutter at October 29, 2012 02:24 PM (QKKT0)

89 83 BREAKING : Hurricane Sandy is raping people!!

Hide your wife, hide your kids, cuz Sandy is raping everybody up in here.

Posted by: Antoine Dobson at October 29, 2012 02:24 PM (vjyZP)

90 You forgot women. Women who leave the Democratic plantation get all sorts of attacks from the tolerant left.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2012 02:24 PM (I7UGD)

91 82 Irish Americans overall are pretty reliably a Democratic voting block. Not me, or my fam, or those of the pasty skin and freckles that I know. But we're not your standard Irish Catholics.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 29, 2012 02:25 PM (GEICT)

92 But isn't merit racist? Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 29, 2012 06:19 PM (SAA1o) Yes, it is. "Merit" derives from "merry white".

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 29, 2012 02:25 PM (X3lox)

A gay friend of my sons is voting Romney and has said so on his FB page. The hate that followed from his so called "friends" was disgusting. I jumped in and tried to help him out but these people are just certifiable. I finally gave up. He sent me a private message thanking me for trying. I felt so bad for him. He's lost several friends over this, but as I said.. I guess they weren't really friends to begin with. He's still very hurt over it though.

Posted by: jewells45 says Romney wins in a landslide at October 29, 2012 02:25 PM (1hNQS)

94 Lady Parts are only for voting, Waitress Sandwiches and cigars. Right?

What have I said about taunting Happy Fun Alex?

And some of those are the same people who worship Fidel Castro, who actually *has* herded people with AIDS into camps.

Yup. Of course, pointing this out will result in accusations of lying and but but but Reagan started AIDS and it's all the Republicans fault because reasons. Really, the gay left is simply *boring* in how predictable the justifications are for those who are actually homophobic.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at October 29, 2012 02:25 PM (Gk3SS)

95 Pinocchio became a real boy?

Go on.

Posted by: Hairy Reed at October 29, 2012 02:25 PM (QKKT0)

96 87 75 Radio voiceover guy. Posted by: steevy at October 29, 2012 06:23 PM (6o4Fb) --The passage from his book where he says "Chee-CAH-NOHSSSSS" is like fingers on a chalkboard to me.

Posted by: logprof at October 29, 2012 02:25 PM (jKE+Z)

97 Is InstaPundit permanently a group blog now? I know he used to let others take over when he was on vacation. But he's been letting others post there for seemingly months now. And he still posts, so he's not on vacation. Seems like it's been a group blog now since early summer.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 29, 2012 02:25 PM (R+6Q+)

98 "79 71 To be honest,blacks have almost always voted for big government.They may have registered as Republicans in the old days but they always voted big government." They voted Federal government. Understandably, I would argue, since state's rights hadn't exactly been such a winning proposition for them. The Great Society has been a disaster for them though. Everything's changed but the voting patterns remained.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at October 29, 2012 02:25 PM (uhAkr)

99 Another guy with a horse head is filmed skating in the hurricane. It's the new fad!

Posted by: Redd at October 29, 2012 02:26 PM (Lom3Z)

100 It's a cult, and a lot of cult members are prepared to go Jonestown with it, apparently.

Posted by: Kensington at October 29, 2012 06:05 PM (znT2j)

Try the grape drank. It masks the cyanide better, yo.

Posted by: LL Kool Ayd at October 29, 2012 02:26 PM (JJ+PT)

101 96 I didn't say he would be GOOD at it.He's a SCoaMF at everything I'd bet.

Posted by: steevy at October 29, 2012 02:26 PM (6o4Fb)

102 LIE TO ME!! LIE TO ME!!

Posted by: Obligatory Pinocchio Punchline at October 29, 2012 02:27 PM (jKE+Z)

103 Peggy Joseph, whilst a delusional fool, at least spoke like a normal person, unlike that freakshow with the Obamaphone.

Posted by: Kensington at October 29, 2012 02:27 PM (znT2j)

104 People finally waking up that identity politics don't accomplish anything but take demographics for granted?

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at October 29, 2012 02:28 PM (KCvsd)

105 Okay, I'm not a Pats fan but Gronkowski calling the Palace Guards "Those nutcracker dudes that guard the house" is some funny shit.

Posted by: logprof at October 29, 2012 02:28 PM (jKE+Z)

106 He's NOT an academic. That's just Red crap to bolster his non-existent resume. He never held a faculty position, never published a jot. Being invited to give a few lectures doesn't make an academic. Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 29, 2012 06:15 PM (U+DUu) I didn't mean that he was an academic. I mean he *is* just like he is a Nobel Peace Prize winner. No, his liberalism is the academic type, right out of the faculty lounge. I bet if you did a linguistics study of it, you couldn't tell the diferrence between his liberalism and Bill Ayers.

Posted by: Golan Globus at October 29, 2012 02:28 PM (vE/sd)

107 a black woman i know told me that i was lying to her when I said Abe Lincoln was a Republican.

& well, I have a law degree. she doesn't have a GED.

but i just don't know SH*T

Posted by: kelley in virginia at October 29, 2012 02:29 PM (HNwOT)

108 99 Another guy with a horse head is filmed skating in the hurricane. It's the new fad! Posted by: Redd at October 29, 2012 06:26 PM (Lom3Z) --So it's called "SJP-ing"?

Posted by: logprof at October 29, 2012 02:29 PM (jKE+Z)

109

3 Wait, so black people don't want the countr yot move forward to some bizarre THX1138 genderless fucked up society?

----------

Buy. Buy more. And be happy.

Posted by: Om at October 29, 2012 02:29 PM (IrbU4)

110

97Is InstaPundit permanently a group blog now?

HEH!

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at October 29, 2012 02:29 PM (GQ3W3)

111 Jewells-Tell your sons gay friend to go on over to "Gay Patriot" website if he hasn't done already. It won't bring back his "friends" but they'll often have posts about the intolerant left and it might make him feel better.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2012 02:29 PM (I7UGD)

112 Try the grape drank. It masks the cyanide better, yo.
Posted by: LL Kool Ayd

Dude, their souls belong to us.

Posted by: Grape Flavor Aid, not those Kool-Aid bitches - who'd they ever kill? at October 29, 2012 02:29 PM (R18D0)

113 104 Identity politics facilitate Leftist hegemony... so there's that.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 29, 2012 02:29 PM (SAA1o)

114 What have I said about taunting Happy Fun Alex? That dinner and drinks must be bought before you're down with it?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 29, 2012 02:30 PM (GEICT)

115 same black woman told me that the gubmint owed her money cause they raised the gas prices.

Posted by: kelley in virginia at October 29, 2012 02:30 PM (HNwOT)

116 Is InstaPundit permanently a group blog now?

It's a group blog through the election at least, Glenn had a post up about it a bit ago.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at October 29, 2012 02:30 PM (Gk3SS)

117
I don't just want a win, although I will take it, but I want a total repudiation of barry obastardmcfuckstickjerkwad by all demographics.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2012 02:30 PM (PHb2k)

118 I'm wondering if there isn't a black Bradley Effect in play at the moment. ----------------------------------- Stop wondering. When the returns come in on election day you'll be embarrassed for even broaching this question.

Posted by: Scoop at October 29, 2012 02:30 PM (AzwZn)

119 If anything it's a reverse, reverse Bradley effect. Blacks say they'll vote for Obama 92-8. The actual number might be 95-5. Some might be embarrassed about how they'll ultimately vote. That said, however, if Obama doesn't get at least 90% of the black vote not only will Romney be the next president it won't nearly be close enough even for the Dem-media-union cabal to steal.

Posted by: Tsar Nicholas II at October 29, 2012 02:31 PM (pmsMR)

120 same black woman told me that Obama was against abortion. I didn't even try to show her the Illinois Senate bills.

this woman is a registered voter. yippee

Posted by: kelley in virginia at October 29, 2012 02:31 PM (HNwOT)

121 This fucking storm better not fuck up this fucking election!

Posted by: steevy at October 29, 2012 02:31 PM (6o4Fb)

122 I've seen posts to the effect that some union members are also SAYING that they will vote for BO - to avoid problems with their union leadership - yet they are actually going to vote for Romney. hmmm

Posted by: carolina at October 29, 2012 02:31 PM (jjmSa)

123 115 Well, then Obama should pay up... Perhaps in phones.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 29, 2012 02:31 PM (SAA1o)

124

Don't think about blacks in terms of the *population* but in terms of Democratic voters.

That is, if 90 percent of blacks vote Democratic, blacks are 12 percent of the population, and the Democrats gets 50 percent of the vote, then blacks represent almost 22 percent of Democratic votes.

Democrats can't afford to lose *any* black vote--especially when their ground game is based on turnout. It's much easier going through a neighborhood and getting people to the polls when you know that 90 percent of the votes will be with you than when it's more of a mishmash.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at October 29, 2012 06:15 PM (vouc9)

This is the reason Hillary will not throw Obama under the bus on Benghazi. Imagine pissing off 1/5 of your base? There is no way she hurts Barack before the election. She would be viewed as a traitor to the race. Even by blacks that despise Barack Obama.

No, Hilary will stand by Barack on Benghazi Libya through November 7.

Posted by: rd does not believe the MSM at October 29, 2012 02:32 PM (zLp5I)

125 blacks will vote for O. take that to the bank

Posted by: kelley in virginia at October 29, 2012 02:32 PM (HNwOT)

126 115 same black woman told me that the gubmint owed her money cause they raised the gas prices. Posted by: kelley in virginia at October 29, 2012 06:30 PM (HNwOT) Not to go all tin foil hat, but gas prices have been slowly climbing for awhile here in NE FL. Last 3 weeks? Dropped by 30 - 35 cents.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 29, 2012 02:33 PM (GEICT)

127 That dinner and drinks must be bought before you're down with it?

And dessert. Don't forget dessert.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at October 29, 2012 02:33 PM (Gk3SS)

128

Reagan started AIDS

As we now know from the Mitrokhin archive and gaining access to KGB archives, the KGB started that "the CIA engineered HIV to hold blacks down" crap back in the 80s. They planted the story in some newspaper in India (IIRC) that they'd penetrated (the sources above detail their efforts at penetrating news media everywhere). They laughed their asses off when the story took wing, almost as much as the stories about J. Edgar Hoover being a cross-dresser (another of their exploits).

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 29, 2012 02:33 PM (U+DUu)

129 Okay, how 'bout a 'Bama iPad and a carton of KoolsÂ™ for each time you vote for Obama?

Posted by: The Democrat Boss Man at October 29, 2012 02:34 PM (R18D0)

130

@117

the media has pulled out all the stops trying to get barky re-elected if he loses that is a repudiation,and hopefully it opens the floodgates to the demise of the mainstream media

Posted by: kj at October 29, 2012 02:34 PM (AW9md)

131 Ah, makes sense if Insty is doing a group blog through the election. Good to know. I've been reading blogs long enough now to notice the pattern when a single person blog goes group -- it's often due to an unmentioned health problem with the individual or his immediate family. So I was getting a bit concerned that there was some health issue. Good to hear that's not the case.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 29, 2012 02:35 PM (R+6Q+)

132 126 Strategic reserves?

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 29, 2012 02:35 PM (SAA1o)

133 ...performing in low-rent gonzo porn...

Story of my life.

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 29, 2012 02:35 PM (HtUdo)

134 99 Another guy with a horse head is filmed skating in the hurricane. It's the new fad! ------ The '80s called; they want their meme back.

Posted by: Anachronda at October 29, 2012 02:35 PM (xGZ+b)

135 @111.. I did. I go there quite a bit and I recommended it to him. Haven't followed up to see if he has been there or not. I have to admit I am pretty damn proud of him for sticking to his guns.

Posted by: jewells45 says Romney wins in a landslide at October 29, 2012 02:35 PM (1hNQS)

136 I've seen posts to the effect that some union members are also SAYING that they will vote for BO - to avoid problems with their union leadership - yet they are actually going to vote for Romney. hmmm
Posted by: carolina

Shit. Just had a McCain/Palin election flashback.

Posted by: Dang at October 29, 2012 02:36 PM (R18D0)

137 I think a lot more blacks say they are going to vote for Obama than are actually going to vote. They won't go vote for Romney, they will stay home. And because of that, we're racist or something.

Posted by: Golan Globus at October 29, 2012 02:36 PM (vE/sd)

138

the ABC/CBS.NBC news casts have all gone to one hour tonight.

Sandy is going to be the big story for the next 4 days.

Posted by: rd does not believe the MSM at October 29, 2012 02:36 PM (zLp5I)

139 128 The KGB? Never.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 29, 2012 02:36 PM (SAA1o)

140 Not to go all tin foil hat, but gas prices have been slowly climbing for awhile here in NE FL. Last 3 weeks? Dropped by 30 - 35 cents. Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 29, 2012 06:33 PM (GEICT) --Same up in North Dakota. Must be nationwide. I hope my fantasy of Stephen Harper bumping up the oil prices comes to pass shortly.

Posted by: logprof at October 29, 2012 02:36 PM (jKE+Z)

141 Gas is down 50 cents here in NorCal.

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna not greg/gerg at October 29, 2012 02:37 PM (9+ccr)

142

Off topic a bit, but here in MD (annapolis area), it's been raining a lot, some wind, I've been thru worse t-storms then this. I'm grateful, because Irene was horrible for us, and I was really afraid this was going to be the same. So far so good.

I'm almost afraid to type this because it's still early, but overall it hasn't been too bad here.

Posted by: 49 other states who want attention at October 29, 2012 02:37 PM (pwTow)

143 Sorry to bring the decimal multiplication, morons, but Ace has difficulty unless it involves converting "percent alcohol" to "proof."

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at October 29, 2012 02:37 PM (vouc9)

144 127 And dessert. Don't forget dessert. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at October 29, 2012 06:33 PM (Gk3SS) I was thinking Peppermint Chocolate Chip Milkshake of Bigotry to seal the deal.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 29, 2012 02:37 PM (GEICT)

145 135 What, you think there's no such thing as fads?

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 29, 2012 02:38 PM (SAA1o)

146 "Reagan started AIDS'

Before or after he invented crack cocaine?

Posted by: Dang at October 29, 2012 02:38 PM (R18D0)

147 Based on the polls, I think the black vote, percentage wise, will decline for the JEF, but not much. His problem is motivating them to vote at all. Hence, his hanging with the Pimp with a Limp, Jay-Z et al. and 1st Lady Mrs. Patrick Ewing hitting BET and urban radio as part of the GOTV effort.

Posted by: eureka! at October 29, 2012 02:39 PM (cTjRR)

148 Who needs the KGB when you got me?

Posted by: Calypso Louie at October 29, 2012 02:39 PM (jKE+Z)

149 Posted this on the dead thread: Hmmm: John Sexton ‏@verumserum Faked? Madison police now say Kyle Wood has recanted his story of an attack at his home: http://www.cityofmadison.com/incidentReports/incidentDetail.cfm?id=13821

Posted by: Y-not at October 29, 2012 02:39 PM (5H6zj)

150 I was thinking Peppermint Chocolate Chip Milkshake of Bigotry to seal the deal.

I shall take this offer under advisement. Gah. Cannot wait until those are back on the menu, it better be soon!

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at October 29, 2012 02:40 PM (Gk3SS)

151 AIDS/crack

Better stand back.

Posted by: Dang at October 29, 2012 02:40 PM (R18D0)

152 So ... Sandy's ashore and the news demons seem really disappointed that there isn't more damage. On Fox, they've been reduced to reporting wind gusts, since sustained winds aren't ~~impressive~~ scary enough.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 29, 2012 02:40 PM (X3lox)

153 Posted by: Y-not at October 29, 2012 06:39 PM (5H6zj) --Great all we need is our own Tawana Bradley.

Posted by: logprof at October 29, 2012 02:40 PM (jKE+Z)

154 Sandy is going to be the big story for the next 4 days.

Until the October Surprise against Romney. Which I imagine will be nothing more than "He's Mormon, and Mormonism is WEIRD!"

Posted by: wooga at October 29, 2012 02:40 PM (vjyZP)

155

I've seen posts to the effect that some union members are also SAYING that they will vote for BO - to avoid problems with their union leadership - yet they are actually going to vote for Romney. hmmm

Posted by: carolina at October 29, 2012 06:31 PM (jjmSa)

Should the Republicans run a few ads in urban areas saying, "When you are in the voting booth, no one will know how you voted, and you do not have to vote for every candidate."?

Posted by: rd does not believe the MSM at October 29, 2012 02:41 PM (zLp5I)

156 I thought there would be a whole lot more Stacey Dash pics in this article. Boo!!!

Posted by: Witchfinder at October 29, 2012 02:41 PM (pLTLS)

157 stupid sock

Posted by: spypeach at October 29, 2012 02:41 PM (pwTow)

158 Posted this on the dead thread:

Hmmm:

John Sexton ‏@verumserum
Faked? Madison police now say Kyle Wood has recanted his story of an attack at his home:

http://www.cityofmadison.com/incidentReports/incidentDetail.cfm?id=13821 Posted by: Y-not

D r a m a .

Posted by: Dang - doing his nails in a baby blue chiffon outfit at October 29, 2012 02:41 PM (R18D0)

159 154 News ghouls.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 29, 2012 02:41 PM (SAA1o)

160 Posted by: 49 other states who want attention at October 29, 2012 06:37 PM (pwTow) --------------------------------------------------- Frederick County here. Flooding all over the place already and the worst hasn't hit yet. The wind is really kicking up.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 29, 2012 02:42 PM (jucos)

161 I notice that CBS news is building a narrative for bad economic numbers based on hurricane Sandy.

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at October 29, 2012 02:42 PM (KCvsd)

162 152 I was thinking Peppermint Chocolate Chip Milkshake of Bigotry to seal the deal. --------- I shall take this offer under advisement. Gah. Cannot wait until those are back on the menu, it better be soon! Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at October 29, 2012 06:40 PM (Gk3SS) A solemn oath my friend, that the instant we see they're available, every effort to contact the other. AoS, Twitter, etc.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 29, 2012 02:42 PM (GEICT)

163 >>Great all we need is our own Tawana Bradley. Yep.

Posted by: Y-not at October 29, 2012 02:43 PM (5H6zj)

164

Local news tonight: Is it too late to buy flood insurance?

Well, DUH.

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at October 29, 2012 02:43 PM (GQ3W3)

165 Dammit! Get back on that plantation!

Posted by: Simon LeGree at October 29, 2012 02:43 PM (XvHmy)

166 On Fox, they've been reduced to reporting wind gusts, since sustained winds aren't impressive scary enough. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

Oh yeah? Watch this! *huffs and puffs a bit and then falls to his knees*

Posted by: Sustained Winds at October 29, 2012 02:44 PM (R18D0)

167 blacks will vote for O. take that to the bank ----------------------------------- Yep. Wish casting it to be any different is the domain of fools. When did blacks discover tennis and golf? Hint: It wasn't with Arthur Ashe and Lee Elder.

Posted by: Scoop at October 29, 2012 02:44 PM (AzwZn)

168 The most interesting person in that video was the older lady who said that most people in her community had no idea where jobs came from. They think jobs come from the government and don't understand it's the mom and pop shops that really provide jobs. That's really what we're up against.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2012 02:44 PM (TMB3S)

169 167 The Soviet Union?

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 29, 2012 02:45 PM (SAA1o)

170 On Fox, they've been reduced to reporting wind gusts, since sustained winds aren't impressive scary enough.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

Oh yeah? Watch this! *huffs and puffs a bit and then falls to his knees*
Posted by: Sustained Winds

I got this... *starts breaking shit like fences and small tree limbs - throws a lawn chair into the pool*

Posted by: Wind Gusts at October 29, 2012 02:45 PM (R18D0)

171 Sandy is going to be the big story for the next 4 days.

Since they're not getting the damage ~~expected~~hoped for look for some vandalizing

Posted by: Dept. of Accuracy Dept. at October 29, 2012 02:46 PM (BAnPT)

172 A solemn oath my friend, that the instant we see they're available, every effort to contact the other. AoS, Twitter, etc.

Deal. *pinkieswears*

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at October 29, 2012 02:47 PM (Gk3SS)

173
Great video. I just don't know what the solution is for those communities other than to leave. Yes it would be beneficial, although short term extremely painful, for the govt funding to end, but I doubt that will happen until the US financial collapse.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2012 02:48 PM (PHb2k)

174 93 A gay friend of my sons is voting Romney and has said so on his FB page. The hate that followed from his so called "friends" was disgusting. I jumped in and tried to help him out but these people are just certifiable. I finally gave up. He sent me a private message thanking me for trying. I felt so bad for him. He's lost several friends over this, but as I said.. I guess they weren't really friends to begin with. He's still very hurt over it though. Good for him for his courage. It's not easy to swim against the tide of peer pressure. As an ex-liberal, I know what it's like to lose friends over politics. When I "changed" about 15 years ago, some friends abandoned me and I abandoned some others. I still have some other friends from back then, but our relationships are considerably strained and I don't care to talk politics with them. I'm of a mind that we should take the offensive, and threaten to cut off friends and relatives who plan to vote for Obama again. Tell them before the election. Maybe try to shock some sense into them. Those who voted for him the first time were ignorant, uninformed, and misguided. Those who vote for him a second time are evil.

Posted by: rickl at October 29, 2012 02:49 PM (sdi6R)

175 >>> a black woman i know told me that i was lying to her when I said Abe Lincoln was a Republican.

--------------------

Fuuuuck. SMOD can't get here fast enough.

Posted by: Punahou Death Stare at October 29, 2012 02:49 PM (sTS/8)

176 146 135 What, you think there's no such thing as fads? -------- Oh, there are fads. It's just that the new fad is calling a fad a meme. Gotta get with the program, dude.

Posted by: Anachronda at October 29, 2012 02:50 PM (IrbU4)

177 174 A solemn oath my friend, that the instant we see they're available, every effort to contact the other. AoS, Twitter, etc. -------- Deal. *pinkieswears* Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at October 29, 2012 06:47 PM (Gk3SS) Awesome. Celebratory chest bump?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 29, 2012 02:51 PM (GEICT)

178 I thought the new meme was calling stuff fads. Again. But just for a little while.

Posted by: Dang at October 29, 2012 02:53 PM (R18D0)

179 Awesome. Celebratory chest bump?

Nice try.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at October 29, 2012 02:54 PM (Gk3SS)

180 Boortz said it best, Democrats will not help the black community because they know they have their votes, republicans will not help them because they can not get their votes, they will not improve their lives until they start thinking for themselves.

Posted by: brad at October 29, 2012 02:55 PM (iIL8M)

181 My strategy for how Republicans should "court" blacks is to aggressively support a federal law banning all racial preferences and scarpping affirmative action.

Sure, they'd be livid for a single election cycle, but after that they would be free from the Democrat plantation and stop seeing themselves as group of victims and instead as individuals. Blacks vote uniformly Democrat anyway, it might boost turnout a bit on the margins, but it would quickly dissipate.

As long as Democrats have that fear they can hold out in front of them and make black people think they're the only thing keeping them from being homeless, they have the power.

Posted by: McAdams at October 29, 2012 02:55 PM (FwCfL)

182 182 Awesome. Celebratory chest bump? -------- Nice try. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming soon. at October 29, 2012 06:54 PM (Gk3SS) *shrugs* Worth a shot.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 29, 2012 02:56 PM (GEICT)

183 181 I thought the new meme was calling stuff fads. Again. But just for a little while. -------- Crap! I'm unfashionable again??? #FML

Posted by: Anachronda at October 29, 2012 03:00 PM (xGZ+b)

184

We still do hashtags, right?

Posted by: Anachronda at October 29, 2012 03:00 PM (xGZ+b)

185 A few votes here, a few votes there and soon you're talking about winning an election.

Posted by: Jcw46 at October 29, 2012 03:01 PM (Vh0f5)

186 We still do hashtags, right?

Yes, but you have to kidnap a liberal one. Like #Forward. The ones like #BenghaziCoverup (or whatever) are edited out of the 'trending' lists by the information czars.

Posted by: Al at October 29, 2012 03:03 PM (5a/pJ)

187 We have the video of John McCain saying this is a bigger scandal than Watergate posted now on CC... http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com

Posted by: Steve at October 29, 2012 03:04 PM (8gUKR)

188 Youre not taking the Jewish Bradley Effect into account.

Posted by: ObamaGivesFilatio at October 29, 2012 03:05 PM (gKz+d)

189 I read today where the Black participation in the work force was 55%.

I guess that means 55% of 12% which is 6% of the population(all) are working blacks and they've got to be a little more tuned into the reality of what the Democrats agenda costs as far as taxes and such.

Plus they can see how they were doing under Bush (and to be fair under clinton) and can see that Obama ain't got a handle on the problem.

They can also hear and see that the job losses are hitting whites pretty hard also so it's not a ghetto thing.

People vote their pocketbooks and their religion (or their strongly held beliefs) and Obama has smacked them in both.

Posted by: Jcw46 at October 29, 2012 03:06 PM (Vh0f5)

190 @143 Lucky you down there in Annapolis. It's nasty as shit here in northern Baltimore county. Power out and the wind is howling. My kids are scared and it is going to be a long night.

Posted by: Timon at October 29, 2012 03:07 PM (DmeYJ)

191 The most interesting thing in the video is the accusation that the programs amount to money being handed to supervisors and then they shuffle lots of papers. NO JOBS.

This is what Obama did as a community organizer down there. He got money to build a park and the contractors ran off with the money, in one instance. All the housing was still substandard when he was done. Not one job was created.

And now the folks get it. Which is more than you can say for the elites.

Posted by: PJ at October 29, 2012 03:09 PM (DQHjw)

192 Remember, we don't care if the black Democrats vote for Romney; we just want them to stay home.

I understand the sentiment but you do realize that's leaving millions in the lurch?

I don't think even supposed Mormon racist's would agree to that and definitely not Romney.

Better for them to see they've been getting the short end of the stick by NOT voting Republican and for them to do so now if just to jack up the Democrats who take them for granted.

Posted by: Jcw46 at October 29, 2012 03:10 PM (Vh0f5)

193

Timon,

Well the wind is starting to pick up now, and I'm getting a little nervous, my neighbor has 2 very questionable trees swaying in my direction. I had a huge oak tree fall in Irene, it landed on my neighbors house and she didn't get back into her house for 3 months. I took down all the trees in my yard, but my side neighbor still have 3 large not so healthy oaks that are very top heavy. I've been watching them for the last hour swaying back and forth. I hate wind.

Posted by: spypeach at October 29, 2012 03:11 PM (pwTow)

194 I'd like to have more blacks feel that they belong here and are Americans and have a stake in what goes on.

Michelle Obama's attitude about not being proud of being an American has some validity as many blacks do feel disenfranchised and are treated as foreigners in the land of their birth. I can understand how they might feel that way if they didn't have someone pointing out how they are part of this country and should BECOME Americans in thought and deed. (those that for whatever reason don't already. It's a smaller amount than the country deserves so there's hope.)

Posted by: Jcw46 at October 29, 2012 03:14 PM (Vh0f5)

195 Blood is thicker than water, and black blood seems particularly viscous.

Posted by: Tours Lepanto Vienna at October 29, 2012 03:22 PM (PPcR4)

196 Hopefully a preference cascade for Romney will result in a rejection cascade for the press.

turn off your TV's (except for known conservative shows.

cut your cable (if you dare) and let them know why.

Call the advertisers and tell them you refuse to buy from anyone who helps promote Progressivism by misuse of their first amendment right.

Posted by: Jcw46 at October 29, 2012 03:24 PM (Vh0f5)

197 Consider the paranoia factor. What if that wasn't really a pollster calling but someone using their cousin to check up on who the 'racial traitors' not voting for Obama are. You gonna take that risk for no reward?

Posted by: DaMav at October 29, 2012 03:24 PM (rT08W)

198 "Except... except for the fact of Obama's record, which is generally miserable, and specifically miserable when it comes to soaring black unemployment and rising black poverty rates." I'm sure this is my fault, somehow.

Posted by: toby928© Person of Pallor at October 29, 2012 03:29 PM (QupBk)

199 Not only that but unless you are a highly paid professor at a highly subsidized academic institution in the Victim Studies Program you won't even realize you are to blame! Well wet my dawg whistle!

Posted by: DaMav at October 29, 2012 03:35 PM (rT08W)

200 135 99 Another guy with a horse head is filmed skating in the hurricane. It's the new fad! ------ The '80s called; they want their meme back. Just wait until I break out the opposum suit!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2012 03:37 PM (d0Dmj)

201 For a variety of reasons, I've been at our local early voting place in a suburb or Dallas four times in the last 5 days. Voting turnout is incredibly heavy. Each day of early voting has had totals that equal the total turnout for 'ordinary' elections.

Each time I have seen a heavy turnout of Black voters. Somehow I don't think they're standing in line for an hour to early-vote for Romney.

I think that there is going to be a heavy turnout on both sides, and I'm not optimistic for Romney right now. I think that the election is going to easily fall into the margin of fraud.

Posted by: Lokki at October 29, 2012 03:41 PM (a5F9g)

202 Blacks get a limited amount of benefit from Dems (jobs, welfare). They don't get anything from Repubs. Blacks vote Dem because they saw how sweet the goodies were for white Dems and are still awaiting that level of benefit. Repubs cannot promise that blacks will get the cop/firefighter jobs exclusively for several generations (irish/italians). White dems aren't going to give up the access to the government jobs other white people still think are important to have around, but they will still scatter a few crumbs to blacks. Until blacks get nothing from anybody, they'll take the crumbs of jobs and the welfare from Dems and vote Dem. If they got nothing, they wouldn't vote Dem or Repub, and their behavior would change to reflect the new total isolation from the political process.

Posted by: argh at October 29, 2012 04:01 PM (rYbhP)

203 205Lokki

Lubbock County voters have supported Republican candidates by margins of 2 to 1 or more in the past decade. Population: approx. 300,000.

Not as much as Dallas, but you did say "suburb"......which could be any of the small cities around Dallas, which I don't think will be voting for Obama. And, you forget Ft. Worth.......that Stetson-wearing, horse-riding city......definitely a cowtown and not one for Obama. Population: Approx. 760,000.
That's about 1mil so far.

And, then there's the whole metro area........those little towns tend to be more conservative....small town folks

Posted by: avagreen at October 29, 2012 04:16 PM (WR2rX)

204

a black woman i know told me that i was lying to her when I said Abe Lincoln was a Republican.

Look on the bright side. When you prove to her - beyond any shadow of doubt - that Lincoln was in fact a Republican, and that the Republican Party was founded in essence to abolish slavery ... there's a chance you might shake her allegiance to the Dems.

Not a real big chance, mind you, but a chance.

If possible, pile on by pointing out that Bull O'Connor was a Dem, and that the man who sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock to force integration of the schools was Eisenhower - a Republican.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 29, 2012 04:17 PM (U+DUu)

205 avagreen -

I know that there's more chance of Hurricane Sandy getting my feet wet than there is of Obama winning Texas - but that's my point. If Blacks are turning out in big numbers here - where there is no point- then I'm guessing that they'll turn out in big numbers in states where it does matter.

Posted by: Lokki at October 29, 2012 04:42 PM (a5F9g)

206 Look on the bright side. When you prove to her - beyond any shadow of doubt - that Lincoln was in fact a Republican, and that the Republican Party was founded in essence to abolish slavery ... Blow her mind. Point out that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a ... Republican.

Posted by: toby928© at October 30, 2012 03:03 AM (QupBk)

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