From Real Clear Politics:
“[I]f you go back to the year 2000, when we had an obvious disaster and – and saw that our voting process needed refinement, and we did that in the America Votes Act and made sure that we could iron out those kinks, now you have the Republicans, who want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws and literally – and very transparently – block access to the polls to voters who are more likely to vote Democratic candidates than Republican candidates. And it’s nothing short of that blatant,” DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL) told TVOne’s “Washington Week.”
As Wasserman-Schultz is a liberal we can’t rule out the possibility that she’s just a dingbat…so dumb that she really believes all that liberal nonsense about the GOP being secretly racist and just waiting for the day we can propose to re-institute slavery. But if she’s not a complete moron, then we are left with this – liberals are deathly afraid that Obama’s support is eroding among African-Americans and other minorities.
To be sure, Obama will roll up 90%+ of the black vote in 2012 but there’s a difference – a huge difference – if it is 90% of a 60% black turnout (as in 2004) or 90% of a 65% black turnout (as in 2008). In 2008 there was a huge upsurge in minority turnout – black, hispanic and Asian, and most of these voters went for Obama. White turnout, meanwhile, was down slightly from 2004 levels. Essentially, this all played a gigantic role in the 2008 result – not absolutely decisive (Obama may have still won even if minority turnout remained at 2004 levels), but certainly very important. And it will be even more important in 2012 when we’re likely to have a higher turnout among anti-Obama voters than we had in 2008. If Obama can’t get the same sort of minority turn out he got in 2008 his re-election chances become immensely more complicated.
And how to Democrats get minority support? I mean, other than getting lucky and having the first serious minority candidate for President? Well, with Hope and Change wearing thin, it is time to break out the race card…and that is was Wasserman-Schultz is doing (unless, once again, she’s just an idiot). We can expect this song and dance right through the 2012 campaign…and it will get worse as time goes on; especially in those media outlets which are geared towards minority voters…there the gloves will really come off and the Democrat message will be pitched that the most nauseating, hate- and fear-mongering level.
Not too much we can do about it. The regular MSM is mostly on Obama’s side – the minority MSM is even more so. We of the GOP/Conservative camp are starting to make serious inroads among the various minority communities, but it will be the work of a generation before we can well and truly say that our message can compete with the liberal Democrat message. All we can do for 2012 is try to fight off the worst of it – calling the Democrats out when they make the most absurd statements, as well as seeing to it that Obama is made to answer for the race-baiting in his Presidential campaign (he, naturally, will try to stay above it all…pretending he has no idea it is going on…we’ve got to nail him down on it; tie him to the hate-mongering; make sure that the people know that it is Obama’s team which is pulling this nonsense.
We can bank on it that the 2012 campaign will be the longest, most expensive and nastiest political campaign in history. This is just a curtain-raiser here…a slight foretaste of the feces Democrats will spread all over this great nation of ours.
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