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The Democrat Plan for Race-Based Victory

November 1, 2012 @ 12:55 pm

For conservatives, Barack Obama's presidency represents such an obvious failure that they can't understand why the contest is even close. Among the 75 percent of the electorate classified as "non-Hispanic white" it isn't close, in fact, with 60 percent support or more for Mitt Romney.

The problem is that in the quarter of the voting public that's non-white, Obama prevails with a crushing 80 percent. This situation explains the shameful Democratic emphasis on racial issues and charges of GOP bigotry: if they can push Obama's support among blacks, Latinos and Asians close to 90 percent, they can win despite emphatic rejection by America's white majority.

That's why the top future political priority for the GOP must be building a more substantial base in the nation's non-white communities, to overcome knee-jerk support that gives Democrats such a powerful advantage.

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  • sportsguru wrote...
    Raced Bait Victory!!!!
    November 1, 2012 1:03 pm

    But then you go on to give a raced baited post as to why the president will win the election. Haven't you been reading the poll's Mr. Medved, Romney is up in all the polls and the president will be defeated. If that is the case, how does your post even hold any weight? Are you saying that the jack boot republican's don't have any pull with minorities in America and all the polls are incorrect? Why is that if they are truly here to help all the people in America?

    People would vote overwhelmingly for YOUR GOP if they truly believe that the GOP was looking out for there best interest, black,white, pink or purple against a black man that was not looking out for them hands down.

    Epic fail Medved.

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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @Guru
    November 1, 2012 1:34 pm
    People will vote overwhelmingly for a perceived characteristic as proven two presidential elections in a row by Howard Stern's road crew. I'll save myself the embarrassment of using the popular teeny bopper catch phrase "Epic Fail" - You're all wet Guru.
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    Cigarillo
    November 1, 2012 1:49 pm

    ha,ha,ha, so your basing your whole scientific research on Howard Stern who's job is to entertain all of us, ha,ha,ha,ha, and we have a Darwin award winner right here.

    What you should be saying is that I Cigarillo will vote overwhelmingly on perceived characteristic's, don't hang your racist perceived characteristic's on the rest of America because we are smart enough to vote on the issue's and you are uncapable of the same. Keep that sh!!tt to your self and your ilk followers.

    Not winning

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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @GooRoo
    November 1, 2012 5:30 pm
    Howard Stern reveals what all of us know to be true: The average Joe doesn't know squat about the issues. His sampling is far more scientific than your blind assumption that people DO know squat. And how does "racism" tie into my posting?
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    @Rillo
    November 1, 2012 5:40 pm
    Well you keep getting your politics from Howard Stern edited searches of the street (I am sure it wouldn't make good radio or t.v. if he would have put people on that knew the issues)and I will get mine from my own research, ha,ha,ha. This is a real DOOh moment for you and you don't even realize it, stop watching t.v. and pick up a book once in a while.
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @SpurtsGoo(Woo!)
    November 1, 2012 6:14 pm
    You sure assume a lot about me from the little I've put here. Hey, wait a minute - are you cutting and pasting stuff from a pre-made Word document into the blog? No fair!
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Interesting comment, sports, that overwelming support for the GOP is possible.
    November 1, 2012 4:43 pm
    Had Republicans simply followed the lead of Jack Kemp and other advocated of both the 'big tent' and enterprise opportunity, race wouldn't even be a question. But.............
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    Ronald!!!!!!!
    November 1, 2012 5:05 pm
    What!!!!! I can't believe it, you bring a tear to my eye's Ronald. I will never forget the letter he wrote:

    "In my opinion, people of all colors and income levels don't hate the rich. They want to get rich. They're more interested in generating wealth than they are in redistributing wealth. They want to own property, educate their children and build a nest egg that can be passed on to their heirs. Unfortunately, some aren't able to access the same ladder of opportunity that is so readily available to the majority."

    Jack Kemp was a man, not like these fools running today, now that's a republican that I would vote for in a moments notice, check out his record.

    That's what honest hard working American's of all races want, this BS about wealth redistribution is just that BS.

    I don't care if you have more money than I do, but I do care if I have the same opportunities as you do, if you produce better result than I do, so be it, but don't handicap me with unfair opportunities.

    You shocked me with that one Ron

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Why should you be shocked ? ... Jack was the heart of the Reagan Revolution and.........
    November 1, 2012 5:20 pm
    had it not been for George H W Bush forcing himself on the ticket in 1980, Jack would have been VP and eventually president. What a very different America that would have been.

    I was very fortunate to get to know Jack a bit back then, especially as he visited Seattle often when his son Jeff was a back up QB for the Seahawks. ... I am still shocked by his untimely death.

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  • logical open mind wrote...
    why then sportsguru are you so cavalier about what single mother welfare has done to hurt opportunities for their kids?
    November 2, 2012 8:36 am
    check out the stats especially for poor black kids between welfare kids and black kids from a two parent family. You want better chances for the poor, have the GUTS AND COMPASION TO LEARN WHAT WELFARE HAS DONE TO THE UNDERCLASS IN AMERICA. Then be honest and do at least something to get young poor people ***TO USE BLOODY BIRTH CONTROL!!!!iT IS FREE!!!
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  • Ravensfan wrote...
    Race based divisions
    November 12, 2012 9:25 am
    The left will always use race and class warfare as their primary issue in all elections. Without a dependency class, the Democratic Party would have no reason to exist.
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  • fedral way, rick wrote...
    sportsguru:I want to add to your point.
    November 11, 2012 3:58 pm
    People know overwhelmingly the republican-teabaggers only cater to the 1% ,blacks,latinos ,asians and single women know the far right hates them thru words and action,they lost yeah yeah yeah GOOD WON OVER EVIL
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  • halfshaft wrote...
    Really?
    November 1, 2012 1:09 pm
    "the shameful Democratic emphasis on racial issues." Examples?
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @halfshaft
    November 1, 2012 3:24 pm
    The only examples that the right wing and Medved have is when the right wing has brought race into things by calling it 'race based' and injecting the bias themselves. It's another case of 'the more you repeat a lie, the more it gets accepted as the truth' coming out of these right wing folks.
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  • SeattleD wrote...
    the Republicon plan for race-based victory
    November 1, 2012 2:27 pm
    is to keep 90 percent of blacks, latinos, Asians and rape victims from voting, using any means necessary.
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @D
    November 1, 2012 8:23 pm
    RAPE VICTIMS?
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  • logical open mind wrote...
    SEAttle D is a child.
    November 2, 2012 8:38 am
    I am done reading his silly posts.
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  • sambra27 wrote...
    rape victims?
    November 2, 2012 11:47 am
    ??
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    What happened to Medved's "History and logic say obama will likely lose"?
    November 1, 2012 3:46 pm
    Didn't Medved write a book proving Obama will likely lose? Why is Medved not mentioning his book for sale? Very strange.
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @Cigaletto
    November 1, 2012 7:01 pm
    Good point. If you do the math with the numbers he provided, it comes out to an even 50% on both sides of the issue.
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  • when reality hits you wrote...
    Why skip around reality?
    November 1, 2012 4:31 pm
    Obama's soon to be victory is not a white against black thing, its a vote for the person who best represents the majority as a whole. Blacks, Latinos and Asians just don't see a man Like Romney from a party like the GOP representing them as well as an ethnic man whom happens to be a Democrat. But whats more, is that Kerry in 2004 had nearly the same poling numbers for ethnic groups, and HE WAS WHITE! Put that into your pipe and smoke it Michael.
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @Reality
    November 1, 2012 9:37 pm
    Your second sentence both contradicts your first sentence and distorts one of Michaels points. Did you mean "supporting a Democrat who happens to be an ethnic man" instead? The point of the article was that if Republicans can't figure a way to chip away at the fabricated racist/sexist/elitist image that has been fed for a couple of generations to everyone NOT a white male, winning elections is always going to be too steep an uphill battle. I'm re-reading the article and can't find anything reflecting the sentiment, "Obama won 'cause he's a black guy." Note the final phrase, "...to overcome kneejerk support that gives DEMOCRATS such a powerful advantage." There's really not a lot of controversy there, unless it gets manufactured.
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  • SeattleD wrote...
    I was imagining that Medved was speaking in front of a rally
    November 1, 2012 8:33 pm
    He shouts to the fired up crowd, "This situation explains the shameful Democratic emphasis on racial issues and charges of GOP bigotry: if they can push Obama's support among blacks, Latinos and Asians close to 90 percent,..."

    Then suddenly Bill Law who is in the first row shouts, "The majority of those people have no accomplishments, no qualifications, no knowledge of American history, no concept of actually earning what you get!"

    The crowd cheers wildly and without skipping a beat Medved finishes his point, "they can win despite emphatic rejection by America's white majority."

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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    96-Percent
    November 1, 2012 8:45 pm
    I think that number pretty much sums up the truth of Medved's post.
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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    The day you understand that this is about an "US" and not a "they,"...
    November 1, 2012 8:51 pm
    ...is the day people like the Occupy "99 percenters" and Joe Biden ("'They'" just don't get it") stop their class warfare rhetoric.
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    @SeattleNative
    November 2, 2012 1:13 am
    You're sorta close, the expression is "WE" not "ME".....as in WE THE PEOPLE, in order to form a more perfect UNION, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the GENERAL WELFARE....etc When 10% of the population owns 80% of the wealth, one can't address inequality by consuming corporate media that only seeks to reinforce the inequality. A person has to think outside of corporate controlled media.
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  • SeattleD wrote...
    Are you kidding?
    November 2, 2012 6:00 am
    The Nazi racist retard Bill Law just wrote that the majority of blacks, Latinos and Asians "have no accomplishments, no qualifications, no knowledge of American history, no concept of actually earning what you get!", and you complain that Dems are dividers?!?!?
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  • Forrest wrote...
    Medved and the Republicans
    November 1, 2012 8:53 pm
    Use decisive issues that they truly don't care about but know uneducated whites do care very much about. Abortion, guns, Jesus, gay rights, socialism, communism, etc. Divide and conquer. The 1% is an exclusive club and you're not invited.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Sounds like the Obama battle plan.
    November 2, 2012 5:51 am
    'Abortion, guns, ...gay rights... Divide and conquer.' .... That's how Oz plans for a majority of the 99%.

    Of course, the 1% in reality is already his. That's where he does his fund raising.

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  • cdbtx wrote...
    An interesting bit a trivia
    November 2, 2012 7:06 am
    45% of all employment during the last 4 years has been non-native born Americans. Average decrease in salary is what?
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