06-06-2016, 05:55 PM
(06-06-2016, 03:03 PM)Anthony Wrote: Trump will do better among blacks than any Republican candidate since Eisenhower, who got 30% of the black vote in 1956.
Blacks on the whole are astute enough to not stab Latinos or Asians in the back politically. Figuring that the black vote is going to be about as D as it ever is, the only way that Donald Trump wins by cutting the black vote (about 66%) is if the participation rate for blacks drops to about 30% nationwide, in which Trump barely wins because he picks up Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The black vote isn't going to fall that low unless Jim Crow not only returns to America but also becomes a national phenomenon... and Democrats in Virginia aren't going to let that happen in their state.
Even if 30% of all blacks voted for Trump in 2016 Hillary Clinton would win because she would win all states that the Republicans have not lost more than once after 1988, Colorado, and Nevada.
So how would a Republican get about 30% of the black vote? Run against a Democrat who has kissed up to the white racist vote with a Presidential nominee who has a temperament very similar to that of...
I love to compare Obama to Eisenhower, don't I? I think that historians will compare Obama more to Eisenhower than to any other 20th-century President.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.