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 Michael Medved

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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  • engineer lady wrote...
    I think there are hidden results
    November 2, 2012 8:36 am
    If you are black, an urban hipster, gay, and dissatisfied with Obama enough to vote for Romney, are you going to admit it to your friends and associates, much less a pollster? In places where no one is looking over your shoulder when you vote, I think we may be surprised. I'm thinking about the 1990 upset of Ortega in Nicaragua.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Right, gays and blacks look at Romney and think,
    November 2, 2012 5:38 pm
    "these guy gets me".
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  • DavidB wrote...
    Sounds like a lot of WHINING to me.
    November 2, 2012 2:21 pm
    Maybe when the GOP puts someone on the ticket that is not either (1) a flip-flopping liar, or (2) a tea-bagging wing nut, we can take them seriously. In the meantime, enjoy another four years of President Obama and do the rest of us a favor and stay out of the way of our nation's recovery.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Your article is ridiculous and infuriating. AZZHOLE.
    November 2, 2012 2:39 pm
    Senator Lindsey Graham (a Republican) said his party "is not generating enough angry white guys" to win elections. I watched the RNC Convention and I watched the DNC Convention and the RNC looked very white. Very, very, very white. What's your response? To label minorities as ignorant azzes who get fooled by Democrats into voting for them. Here's a noble idea jackazz, maybe minorities don't like Republican policies. Maybe minorities believe that a strong government is a GOOD thing. That you shouldn't drown it in a bathtub. It is so patronizing to say that minority support for Democrats is a knee jerk reaction. By the way, if Romney was getting the 45% of hispanics that Bush got he would be running away with this. So fak u.
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @Hollyweird
    November 2, 2012 3:38 pm
    Your shallow rant proves what you perceive as Michael's point: Downtrodden folks is dumb.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Not dumb enough to vote Republican.jackazz.
    November 2, 2012 5:32 pm
    I'll give Michael one point. I do have one knee jerk reaction. I want to vomit every time I think about another dumb ash Republican in the white house. Republicans do plenty of "Race Baiting" themselves, with talks about Kenya, and emphasizing "Hussein" and saying stuff like Obama should "learn to be an American", and Republicans sending out emails with Obama and chimpazees as parents, and Jan Brewer sticking a finger in his face like the president can just be disrespected like that, or watermelons in front of the white house, or state republican offices sending out invitations with watermelon and chicken, and I'm sure you know about the Southern Strategy. So fak you too ignorant ash. Why don't you help clean your own house before you start talking shiit. Minorities are no more or less educated about every issue than white people but they know when somebody is being condescending and patronizing and they recognize racists. That's what the Tea Party has done to the Republicans. Oh and by the way, you may be cool, calm and collected, but so are serial killers. Go away now pizz ant. There must be an NRA meeting somewhere.
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @GMCFHW
    November 2, 2012 10:25 pm
    Your honor, I rest my case.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Guilty.
    November 3, 2012 7:35 am
    You are an azzhole.
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    BentHitchedJesusLoverOfTinselTown
    November 4, 2012 10:32 am
    I wish I had the patience and time to analyze your ramblings and figure if you were someone's (a regular poster on this blog) alter ego concocted out of boredom or a right-wingers plant to make the opposing viewpoint look bad. Bill Law?
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood
    November 5, 2012 7:42 am
    Dude - take your trolling and go elsewhere. Your extremist mouth is doing nothing other than giving the extremist right ammunition to throw back at everyone left of the most extreme right wingers. Oh wait - I'll bet you're nothing but a right winger trolling to give your buddies stuff to respond to. Go somewhere else and play your games.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Whatever whiners. Doth I offend thy sensitive hearts? Morons.
    November 5, 2012 12:01 pm
    I may be passionate about certain issues, but ultimately the division is within the Republican party. Half of them want to be moderate and half of them want to be lunatics. I wasn't the one who said "We're not generating enough angry white guys." That was Lindsey Graham, and the lunatics in the party just about ran Rick Perry off the cliff when he dared show compassion for illegal immigrant CHILDREN. Think about that. Either way, minority voters are not illegal. They are US Citizens and the GOP doesn't get them. My original statement, while not eloquent, stands. The GOP seems to think that the Democrats has them snowed and yet, Bush got 45% of Hispanics. Nearly half. But ever since them the Tea Party has turned Republicans into a party I don't even recognize. The right is losing 95% of blacks, 70% of hispanics and 70% of the youth vote. I broke up with Republican party when I was 16 and I told them, it's not me. It's you. Call me later when you get a clue.
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @gay-yadda-yadda, etc.
    November 5, 2012 6:06 pm
    So I told 'puhl'can party he coul'n't tap that sh1t no mo' and he say "Oh no you din-int", and I say "Oh yes I dit, and you the baby-daddy to two of the three, I think, so send money." and he say "daaaaaaaaammmmmmmm."
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Oh my, you sounded like such an intellectual before.
    November 5, 2012 6:56 pm
    Poor cigarillo, lost his cool...ha ha ha...was it something I said? Oh ho ho ho, he he he, well hell son, that wasn't even my best stuff. You gotta get a tougher skin. You'll never make it on these blogs if you take everything to heart. You have a wonderful sense of the absurd though.
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  • maplefish wrote...
    gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood
    November 6, 2012 1:15 pm
    Wow, aren't you the Tolerant one...NOT! Not sure why anyone thinks Obama has done a good job? Simply amazing. The Guy has FAILED at everything he stated he was going to when elected in 2008. He has accomplished nothing? 49 Million People unemployed. $6 TRILLION Added to the deficit. Welfare over $1 TRILLION a Year. Class Warfare? Wealthly or successful people demonized? For every job Obama supposedly created, 7 more people went on Food Stamps? We as a country have gone backwards? Obama is a FAILURE!
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    80 Percernt of Blacks will vote for Obama because he is black.
    November 5, 2012 6:46 am
    At least half black. Whatever! Because it is PURE RACISM! Illegals welfare and the core 20 percent that makes up the mindless Left wing Parrots in our nation who will always vote for the Liberals are those who are hoping for re immaculation. On the other hand President Romney has the support of non bias freedom loving Americans who will vote in support of their fellow Americans and American traditions and values. Something no Left wing Parrot can begin to comprehend.

    Unless the regime is able to skew the election results intimidate or scare free thinking Americans away, it will be President Romney and in a Landslide victory tomorrow!

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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote..
    November 5, 2012 6:52 am
    You are correct. Romney does get you!

    As for Obama, Obama gets you only as long as he thinks that he gets your votes! Step back and TAKE A LOOK for yourself! You will see it all unfold before your eyes.

    When Romney is elected, nobody's rights will be infringed upon as long as you are a legal US citizen.

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  • HLC wrote...
    fakemarine?
    November 5, 2012 9:35 am
    What are you talking about? GMCFHW sound like a total leftie to me. Clueless like the rest of founding party of the KKK.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Maybe I'm Mitt Romney.
    November 5, 2012 12:09 pm
    I'm a chameleon. All things to everyone.
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  • BarnDerk wrote...
    What I have noticed this past election cycle
    November 5, 2012 2:11 pm
    Most people when talking politics around strangers or people they do not know well will not come out and support Romney openly. They may not support Obama openly either, but complaints about policies these past 4 years are hard to overlook. Can it be because they don't want be accused of being racist? i don't know. I suspect the poll results are a little rosy for Obama this year. I will not be surprised if Romney wins by a big margin.
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @Barny
    November 5, 2012 7:39 pm
    What a sad time we live in if one's political leanings can be deemed politically incorrect. Would it make Janeane Garofolo feel any better if I were to tell her that it was President Obama's WHITE half that I disagreed with. You know, the lilly-white academic effete that loathes all of the things we think are cool, like American exceptionalism, religious freedom and quality firearms. I'd prefer the black half that would be good with a barbeque, openly leer at his wife's big caboose and backhand Francois Hollande for talking like a fruit.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Uhmm...no.
    November 5, 2012 8:04 pm
    If Republicans don't want to be accused of being racist, then maybe they should quit doing racist things, like sending out racist emails, flyers, texts, etc. Electing Obama was like poking the racist beehive. I for one am kind of glad. I can see them more clearly know.
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @Gay
    November 6, 2012 6:15 am
    Could you send me some links to the racist material that you mentioned so that I could print it out and stick it on the fridge? And please, officially sanctioned material sent out by Republican based organizations and not one of those photos of some fringe goofball with a sign at a protest.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    I'm not going to help you decorate your double wide azzwipe.
    November 6, 2012 7:47 am
    But if you're so inclined you can look it up yourself. Here's a handy dandy list to help get you started. Next time educate yourself. Chaffey Community Republican Women Federated California Mayor Dean Grose (R) David Bartholomew, Chair of the Virginia Beach Republican Committee Marilyn Davenport, a Southern California Tea Party activist and member of the central committee of the Orange County Republican Party Sherri Goforth, an administrative assistant to state Sen. Diane Black, R-Gallatin Montana U.S.. District Judge Richard Cebull House Speaker Mike O'Neal, R-Hutchinson
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @Gay
    November 6, 2012 8:59 am
    "Double-Wide" ? NOW who's being racist? Did I ever accuse you of living in a government subsidized four-plex with garbage all over the place and a mangy pit-bull tied to a tree ?
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    I don't know your race. You don't know mine. How can
    November 6, 2012 9:03 am
    I be racist? You are such a sensitive doush I don't know whether to hug you or tell you what I really think of you. I'll give you a clue though, I'm not black.
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @Gay
    November 6, 2012 9:30 am
    The question "How can I be a racist?" tells it all. You're black.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Oh my goodness!! I'm just saying if I don't know your
    November 6, 2012 9:39 am
    race how can that be a racist statement. Everybody's a little bit racist. Everyone's a little bit racist Sometimes. Doesn't mean we go around Committing hate crimes. Look around and you will find No one's really color blind. Maybe it's a fact We all should face Everyone makes judgments Based on race. But you my friend, are more racist than most. Your hate filled posts towards blacks ooze racist. You don't have to be white to be racist though, so I don't know what you're talking about.
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @GayMarriedChristianFromHollwood Washington
    November 6, 2012 9:51 am
    Good Lord, a few words out of thousand that actually speak the truth. That's mighty White of you.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    well lets be fair
    November 6, 2012 10:14 am
    I couldn't possibly deny the fact that you are more racist than most or that your hate filled posts towards blacks ooze racist. but it's good of you admit it. It's the first step towards getting cured. Rock on brother! (oh, I said brother, did I mean brother in the black way or the motorcycle club way) I'm so confused. Maybe I am black.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    @it's me ha ha - Are you trying to be ironic?
    November 5, 2012 5:15 pm
    "Romney has the support of non bias freedom loving Americans who will vote in support of their fellow Americans and American traditions and values." You're so lame. You don't even think you're biased. That's what I mean about Republicans. They think anybody who doesn't think like them is the enemy. I don't know what "values" you are referring to and I don't know how old you are, but I would bet you're old enough to remember the "good old days" when you could hate with impunity. Let it go dude. America has moved on without you. The new generation doesn't give a crap about gays in the military, it doesn't care that Little Bobby has two mommies, it can't imagine a world where the government controls every pregnancy from conception to birth, the new America likes science and thinks global warming might be real and that we should probably plan for it, it doesn't think the Earth is 9000 years old or that the dinosaurs were put on Earth by Jesus to test our beliefs, we don't believe that Obama is a Socialist or a Communist. Mostly, because we're educated and we know what socialism and communism is and know this ain't it. Republicans appeal to the worst of humanity. Their hatred, their mistrust or one another, their fears. This guy who wrote this article we're commenting on. I can see why he'd be scared. He's a fossil. Everything he once knew is changing and he don't like it and you don't either. But even if you can win this time, it's not going to last. America is changing and you can't stop a rolling tide. There are none so blind as those who will not see. You and Medved have a lot in common. Birds of a feather hating together.
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @gaymarchrishollrote
    November 5, 2012 7:20 pm
    I at first thought that you were a right-wing plant, but I'm beginning to think you're one of the lefties going bat-sh1t crazy with the stereotypical caricatures of conservatives that blindly partisan wieners need to feel better when they begin to worry that they're blindly partisan wieners for the wrong side. The persona allows you to run amok, free of the self control exercised in a previous handle. Cigarfan?
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    The truth about "traditional marriage"
    November 6, 2012 8:25 am
    For millennia, marriage was about property and power rather than mutual attraction. It was a way of forging political alliances, sealing business deals, and expanding the family labor force. For many people, marriage was an unavoidable duty. For others, it was a privilege, not a right. Servants, slaves, and paupers were often forbidden to wed, and even among the rich, families sometimes sent a younger child to a nunnery or monastery rather than allow them to marry and break up the family’s landholding. The redefinition of traditional marriage began about 250 years ago, when Westerners began to allow young people to choose their partners on the basis of love rather than having their marriages arranged to suit the interests of their parents. Then, just 100 years ago, courts and public opinion began to extend that right even to marriages that parents and society disapproved. In the 1940s and 1950s, many states repealed laws that prevented particular classes of people—including those with tuberculosis and “the feeble-minded”—from marrying. In 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional for states to prohibit interracial marriage. In 1987 it upheld the right of prison inmates to marry. The path to same-sex marriage was further opened up when heterosexual couples began to push back against state control over their sexual and reproductive lives. Until the 1950s, some states forbade married couples from using assisted reproduction to have children, ruling that artificial insemination was tantamount to adultery and any resultant child was illegitimate. Conversely, until the Supreme Court ruled in 1965 that couples had a right to sexual privacy, many states refused to allow the sale of birth control to married couples who wanted to prevent or limit their childbearing. (…) But the most important cultural change that has increased support for same-sex marriage is the equality revolution within heterosexual marriage. For most of history, the subordination of wives to husbands was enforced by law and custom. As late as the 1960s, American legal codes assigned differing marital rights and obligations by gender. The husband was legally responsible for supporting the family financially, but he also got to decide what constituted an adequate level of support, how to dispose of family property, and where the family would live. The wife was legally responsible for providing services in and around the home, but she had no comparable rights to such services. That is why a husband could sue for loss of consortium if his spouse was killed or incapacitated, but a wife in the same situation could not. And because sex was one of the services expected of a wife, she could not charge her husband with rape. Between the 1970s and 1990s, however, most Americans came to view marriage as a relationship between two individuals who were free to organize their partnership on the basis of personal inclination rather than preassigned gender roles. Legal codes were rewritten to be gender neutral, and men’s and women’s activities both at home and work began to converge. Today, the majority of American children grow up in homes where their parents share breadwinning, housework, and child care. Some couples even decide to reverse traditional gender roles, with the woman becoming the primary breadwinner or the man becoming a stay-at-home dad. Traditional marriage HA!
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    November 6, 2012 10:35 am
    Yep! Just another mindnumbed Left wing Parrot. Are you just another new Seattle Dbag moniker? Sure sounds like it! Left wing Parrot for certain.

    Sweetheart it is you who are left behind. Americans don't care if Homosexuals live together, we know that Marriage is a sacrament from God. That will never change. Second your hate of all who disagree with your line of thinking makes you the bigoted hate filled HETRO phobe that you appear on here as.

    As for Obama, just as long as you are mindlessly voting for his re immaculation, Obama will say that he supports your lifestlye!

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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    I don't hate you! You are my brother here on Earth.
    November 6, 2012 1:13 pm
    I never meant to insinuate that I hated anybody. I'm a lover not a fighter. But so we're clear, I'm not gay. I'm very, very straight. But as a Catholic I have been denied communion because of my liberal views and it does hurt. But as I was saying to somebody else, my church has every right to deny me communion because of whatever, and they have every right to not marry a homosexual couple. But the government has no such right. The government should not deny somebody a marriage license (which outside of church is nothing more than a legal contract between two people). What's up with that? I still don't know what you mean by re immaculation. Is that like a right wing inside joke I'm not privy to?
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  • SeattleD wrote...
    I'm ready to buy your book now Medved
    November 6, 2012 7:36 pm
    25 cents.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    YES WE DID!!!!!!!
    November 6, 2012 8:39 pm
    AGAIN!!!!!!
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    Rightys your WORST nightmare just took place
    November 6, 2012 10:27 pm
    And after Barrack Hussein Obamas 4 yrs end your going to get Hillary for 8 more years/Do yourselves a favor,save what little sanity you have left,LEAVE!!!Somewhere,some island in the Pacific needs LOONs and you guys are just about to become extinct go there and feed off each other build a nation like Somalia where everyone does his own thing and no one looks out for anyone.
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