A new Chicago-based minority voter outreach program: What could go wrong?
Hmmmm. “Operation Vote.” That’s the new name of a Chicago-run voter recruitment drive launched this weekend by Team Obama to target minorities and shore up his left flank.
As usual, everything old is new again…
Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
Via the Washington Post:
President Obama’s campaign is developing an aggressive new program to expand support from ethnic minority groups and other traditional Democratic voters as his team studies an increasingly narrow path to victory in next year’s reelection effort.
The program, called “Operation Vote,” underscores how the tide has turned for Obama, whose 2008 brand was built on calls to unite “red and blue America.” Then, he presented himself as a politician who could transcend traditional partisan divisions, and many white centrists were drawn to the coalition that helped elect the country’s first black president.
Today, the political realities of a sputtering economy, a more polarized Washington and fast-sinking presidential job approval ratings, particularly among white independents, are forcing the Obama campaign to adjust its tactics.
Operation Vote will function as a large, centralized department in the Chicago campaign office for reaching ethnic, religious and other voter groups. It will coordinate recruitment of an ethnic volunteer base and push out targeted messages online and through the media to groups such as blacks, Hispanics, Jews, women, seniors, young people, gays and Asian Americans.
Just a few weeks ago, “Operation Vote” was “Project Vote.”
And the last time Obama fronted a massive campaign machine coordinating minorities and tied into the Chicago/ACORN social justice machinery it went by the name… “Project Vote.”
Obama denied aaaaanything having to do with ACORN and on his campaign’s “Fight the Smears” snitch watch site, he flatly denied any connection between Project Vote and the fraud-plagued ACORN:
• Fact: Barack was never an ACORN community organizer.
• Fact: ACORN never hired Obama as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee.
• Fact: ACORN was not part of Project Vote, the successful voter registration drive Barack ran in 1992.
The truth? Well, Project Vote whistleblower Anita MonCrief (now at Emerging Corruption) has been exposing the racket for years. As the “new” “Operation Vote” gets underway, it’s worth reminding the electorate how the old Project Vote skirted campaign finance, disclosure, and tax laws in its single-minded bid to lock up minority voters. If you weren’t paying attention back then, pay attention now.
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(Photo source: 2008 ACORN slideshow presentation)
They thought it would go away. They were wrong. Obama and the Left thought ACORN’s scandalous racket was a dead issue. But whistleblowers, investigative bloggers, and talk radio continue to press for transparency and taxpayer accountability. Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King has renewed efforts for congressional hearings into the financial structure of the massive, publicly subsidized activist group and its non-profit affiliates. Judicial Watch sheds light on ACORN’s partnership with the Census. Keep an eye on ACORN’s propaganda role in the Obama push for a government health care takeover. And Glenn Beck spotlights the left-wing strategy session to rescue ACORN.
My column today returns to one of the Obama campaign’s big lies — that Barack Obama “never organized with ACORN” and that ACORN had nothing to do with Project Vote. They were joined at the hip back then and they remain joined at the hip today.
Here’s the text of e-mails from ACORN and affiliate staffers patting themselves on the back for their role in Obama’s voter registration drive (click here for the original). Note the addressees, including Frances Piven. Yes, that Frances Piven:
From: Kevin Whelan [specialprojects@citizensservices.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:54 PM
To: mslater@igc.org; ‘Sanford Newman’; poldirect@acorn.org; ‘Frances Piven’; lcm25@columbia.edu
Cc: ‘Sarah Massey’; nhendersonjames@projectvote.org; kgillette@projectvote.org; ‘Michael McDunnah’
Subject: RE: Obama’s Voter-registration Drive
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Red
This is great! Good work everyone!
Kevin
——————————————————————————–
From: Michael Slater [mailto:mslater@igc.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:39 PM
To: ‘Sanford Newman’; poldirect@acorn.org; ‘Kevin Whelan’; ‘Frances Piven’; lcm25@columbia.edu
Cc: ‘Sarah Massey’; nhendersonjames@projectvote.org; kgillette@projectvote.org; ‘Michael McDunnah’
Subject: Obama’s Voter-registration Drive
Importance: High
Some fine quotes from liberal lawyer Sandy Newman and academic and activist Francis Fox Piven: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080901/hayes
Find it on news stands now.
It’s the coordinated corruption, stupid. And if the GOP doesn’t start fighting back, the consequences will be permanent.
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The truth about ObamACORN
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Left-wing groups in Washington, D.C., are panicked. The New York Times and other Team Obama whitewashers have tried hard to suppress mounting evidence of legally suspect coordination between the Obama presidential campaign, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), and Obama’s old employer Project Vote (ACORN’s non-profit canvassing arm). Alas, the truth keeps seeping out.
At a closed-door pow-wow hosted Thursday at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, activists discussed how to combat a relentless stream of corruption charges from ACORN/Project Vote whistleblowers. But it’s too late for a reputation bailout. Former Project Vote official and whistleblower Anita MonCrief has harnessed the Internet to crowd-source a massive cache of documents showing ties between Obama staff and the supposedly “non-partisan” ACORN operations.
Last fall, the New York Times abandoned an investigation into whether Obama had shared donor lists with Project Vote, a 501(c)(3) organization that is prohibited from engaging in political activity. Public editor Clark Hoyt earlier this month called it “the tip that didn’t pan out.” Critics suggested that the donor lists could have been compiled through public records. But I have obtained the lists — not only of Obama donors, but also lists of Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry contributors. The records [view them here] include small donors to the Obama campaign who are not disclosed in public campaign finance databases. It’s information only a campaign could supply.
MonCrief testified under oath last fall that her then-boss, Karyn Gillette, gave her the Obama donor list and told her the campaign had furnished it. Moreover, e-mail between ACORN, Project Vote, and other affiliates, including ACORN’s subsidiary, Citizens Services, Inc. (CSI), make explicit references to working on “Obama campaign related projects.” [Click here for the e-mail.] The “list of maxed out Obama donors” is explicitly mentioned in staff e-mail. [Click here for the e-mail.] Another message from ACORN/Project Vote official Nathan Henderson-James warns ACORN and affiliated staff to prepare for “conservatives…gearing up a major oppo research project on Obama.”
Henderson-James wrote obligatorily, “Understand I’m not suggesting that we gear up to defend a candidate’s campaign.” But that, of course, is exactly what the ACORN enterprise did.
Text of full e-mail [click here for original]:
From: Nathan Henderson-James [sworddirect@citizensservices.org]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 5:09 PM
To: ‘Zach Polett’; ‘mslater@igc.org’; Kevin Whelan (specialprojects@citizensservices.org)
Cc: Karyn Gillette; ‘communications@acorn.org’; Nordette Adams
Subject: Oppo Research On ObamaFolks,
The attached link goes to a story on TPM Muckraker that says that conservatives are gearing up a major oppo research project on Obama.
We should prepare for this information being used to tie Obama to the bogus voter fraud charges leveled against PV and ACORN from the last two election cycles. It may or may not gain traction, it may or may not be chosen as a way of attacking him, but I think we cannot afford to ignore the possibility and plan what our response(s) might be (if any).
Understand I’m not suggesting that we gear up to defend a candidateís campaign, but prepare for the scrutiny and possible ancillary attacks that will come our way because of this.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/tabula_rasa.php
Nathan
—–Nathan Henderson-James
Director, Strategic Writing and Research Department
Citizens’ Services, Inc.
3655 S. Grand Ave #250
Los Angeles, CA 90007
213-747-7202 phone, 213-747-4221 fax, 510-213-1970 cell
sworddirect@citzensservices.org www.citizensservices.org
Why does this matter? Transparency, tax dollars, and electoral integrity. ACORN’s own lawyer, Elizabeth Kingsley, acknowledged last year that a vast web of tax-exempt ACORN affiliates were shuffling money around – making it difficult to impossible to track whether campaign rules and tax regulations were being followed. ACORN receives 40 percent of its revenues from taxpayers. Americans deserve to know whether and how much commingling of public money with political projects has occurred over the last four decades – and what role the Obama campaign played in this enterprise.
Remember: Last August, the Obama team admitted its failure to properly disclose $800,000 in payments to ACORN’s subsidiary, CSI – which works hand-in-hand with Project Vote and the ACORN parent organization. Obama mysteriously re-classified the campaign advance work expenditures as “get-out-the-vote” activities. Nary a peep from electoral integrity watchdogs.
Despite heated denials from Team Obama, the links between ACORN, Project Vote, and CSI are inextricable. As Obama himself reminded ACORN leaders after its political action committee endorsed his presidential candidacy in February 2008:
I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That’s what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That’s the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.
As I’ve reported before, the Obama campaign’s “Vote for Change” registration drive, running in conjunction with ACORN/Project Vote, was an all-out scramble to scrape up every last unregistered voter sympathetic to Obama’s big-government vision.
In an e-mail message to whistleblower MonCrief last summer, New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom told the truth: “The real story to all this is how these myriad entities allow them to shuffle money around so much that no one really knows what’s getting spent on what.” By October 6, 2008, Strom had thrown in the towel in the wake of blistering phone conversations with the Obama campaign. She wrote:
“I’m calling a halt to my efforts. I just had two unpleasant calls with the Obama campaign, wherein the spokesman was screaming and yelling and cursing me, calling me a rightwing nut and a conspiracy theorist and everything else…I’d still like to get that file from you when you have a chance to send it. One of these days, the truth is going to come out.”
It’s only just begun.
***
Yesterday, I posted a few of the e-mails between NYTimes Stephanie Strom and ACORN/Project Vote whistleblower Anita MonCrief. You can download the entire series of message by clicking here. Mike Gaynor has transcriptions of several of the message here, including:
1. “I’m a little miffed with the funders, too. They have to be aware that the grants they make to c(3)s like Project Vote are being funneled to Acorn, which, whether c(4) or simply nonprofit corporation under state law, they aren’t supposed to give money to. ” July 10, 2008 8:18:52 PM
2. “I really want to see 1024 Elysian Fields in New Orleans. It’s the official ‘home’ of something like 50-plus Acorn related entities. The real story to all this is how these myriad entities allow them to shuffle money around so much that no one really knows what’s getting spent on what — and for the charities like the housing orgs, that’s a problem. Charitable money cannot be spent on political activities. It’s a big no-no that can cost organizations their exemptions. July 31, 2008 5:17:49
“When you say the DC Local waives the credit report charges if clients sign up for bank drafts with ACORN, do you mean ACORN actually runs a banking services organization? That would be news to me. The rumor I’ve heard about the chief organizer’s fund is that this is what the Rathkes have used to ‘repay’ Acorn and the two charities that Dale embezzled from. It’s a huge slush bucket controlled by Wade and Maude Hurd, no one else.” July 31, 2008 5:17:49 PM
3. “You are a gold mine! = ).” July 31, 2008 6:06:26 PM
4. “Thanks so much for this. I’m getting a clear picture of what went down last week with the fund raising letter and their scramble to get money somewhere, anyway, in response to my questions. Why not just say they’re having trouble? So are lots of nonprofit groups right now, even those that arent connected to a scandal of any sort. Sometimes the cover up is worse than what’s being covered up.” August 3, 2008 11:51:15 AM
5. “I’m a bit worried about reaching out to Amy if she’s in the process of rejoining Acorn. Doesn’t that mean she’s drunkt the Koolaid?” August 4, 2008 1:40:52
6. “I don’t need to ‘out’ the member who was intimidated. I basically just need her to confirm what I’ve been told. I can then recount the incident as if I know it to be fact.” September 4, 2008 8:59:59 PM
7. “Am also onto the Obama connection, sadly. Would love the donor lists. As for helping the Repubs, they’re already onto this like white on rice. SIGH.” September 7, 2008 1:59 PM
8.”Separately, I’m wondering whether you can give me any more details about the Nov. 2007 meeting with the Obama camp. Where did it take place? Who was involved? Any details would help.” September 12, 2008 3:57 PM
9. “You’re the best. If we could get the names of two or three people who were either sacked or forced out on suspicion of having passed information to me, that would clearly demonstrate the lie.
“What a mess.” September 13, 2008 9:43 AM
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Gosh these people will be hard to beat, not impossible, just hard. We need a real conservative who can put the message out and fight like hell. Go Herman Cain.
still in Japan
More like it.
Can the freaking GOP House shut this down?!
I don’t see anything wrong with voter registration drives by either party or get out the vote campaigns. Any one that sees this type of activity as be scandolus or wrong is Anti-American. IMHO.
the GOP House could shut this down, but the question is do they want to? I am not sure enough of them want to
Well, in reference to the 2008 Acorn Votes slide show, it appears history has certainly been changed!
Somebody can certainly be proud.
Note the time, everyone. Says it all.
Thanks once more, Michelle, for your tireless efforts in exposing the charlatan-in-chief and his mob.
If they want the minorities to come out in full force, they have to offer great giveaways similar to how Oprah operated in the remaining years of her show.
For starters, they could offer a free tank of gas to each new registrant. Or, a $20 credit at an electronics rental store. Maybe a 2-for-1 coupon, redeemable at an area restaurant. Possibly, a free legal consultation voucher for their next round of trouble with the law. I think the government already hands out free cell phones and usage plans, so such a notion would be out of the question at this point.
Call me Anti-American then. It seems you have a funny definition of “American”.
Can you please explain the logic to me of having just anybody’s vote count just as much as the well informed fully invested voter? How come a person who doesn’t care enough to actually get off their behind to go register can have their vote count just as much as the person who actually knows who is running.
The founding fathers had it right when they discussed only landowners get a vote. Only those “invested” and contributing get a say.
It will coordinate recruitment of an ethnic volunteer base and push out targeted messages online and through the media to groups such as blacks, Hispanics, Jews, women, seniors, young people, gays and Asian Americans.
They forgot prisoners
As for politics and elections, their was an important series of political elections held yesterday in Japan. Leading up to yesterday’s vote, for a period of about 2 weeks, there were round-the-clock pronouncements by the candidates and their supporters by way of car-affixed, accousticly enhanced megaphones.
Candidates and their supporters blasted messages over loud speakers that were impossible to ignore. I tried to close the windows and doors to suppress the sound, but the volume was as loud as a public housing fire alarm. It reminded me of North Korean style propogandizing. The organizers were parking their cars in the tightly packed neighbourhoods and megaphoning campaign rhetoric for everyone within half a kilometer to recieve. I thought about liberals, Obama and the left and I envisioned North American politics to be headed in this direction.
In Japan, they have debt that is twice the size of their yearly economic output and all the fiscal stimulus and monetary policy measures that each Japanese government body attempts to implement do nothing to improve the situation. Japan is screwed and the Japanese people’s quality of life is heading south. Americans have so many examples before their eyes as to the pitfalls of too much government, yet they seem realtively unbothered to act. The Japanese people seem more interested in texting on their phones and registering for their next self-improvement class than voicing their opposition to more government spending and control. You read it here first, Japan’s future is over. I wouldn’t invest here for the next 30 years. There will be no growth and nothing but an ever-decreasing standard of living for the Japanese until they take back their economic freedom. Americans should take note – are you guys paying attention?
Energizer should replace their pink bunny with MM.
Obama’s hate rhetoric is getting perilously close to starting a race-war.
So, basically, Obama and his people are promoting and using as a tool racism.
I wonder if there will be classes on how to intimidate white voters so they won’t enter polling places. Maybe taught by New Black Panthers?
Then you do not understand the problem. The problem is not the voter registration drive. If campaigns or parties want to go out and register voters then do it, but do it on their dime not mine. There is also a little thing called the law which prohibts tax-exempt non-profits from coordingating efforts with political campaigns. There is also the problem with circumventing the campaign donation laws by taking lists of maxed out donors to a campaign and putting them in touch with organizations that are essentialy running an off the books campaign for you in an effort to get more money funneled into your campaign. Then there are all the voter fraud cases (most of which have been settled with the defendants pleading guilty).
Perhaps you are the one who does not understand what it is to be an American.
In otherwords, one giant money laundering scheme which includes the use of taxpayer money.
operation vote, that is what they call all the people at the cemetaries around here. did i mention i am from illinois, you might smell it from there.
Couldn’t agree more.
Imagine if we took away the right to vote for everyone on the public dole; I don’t mean the disabled or those that truly require assistance, rather the people that contribute absolutely nothing and do nothing more than live as a monkey on our backs.
One thing is for sure, the perpetual vote for the Dems from the lazy handout people would make it a landslide for the right in every election.
But they know that and count on it and have ever since LBJ.
From Acorn, now we have Cracked Nuts. And they still score money from the Taxpayer too. Yowza, what brass.
These jugheads are more confused about the money than any potential watchdogs. Guaranteed they are breaking laws, and probably losing track of the money anyway. Much the same way Obama and the Democrats have lost and stolen trillions. Incompetence + Criminality + Power = Tyranny.
“Bring out your dead”…….Bong
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“Bring out your dead”…….Bong
Must add Ignorance and Apathy to that equation.
Wouldn’t get the taxpayer money without willing and corrupt politicians and bearucrats acting as the distributors. Most taxpayers would be reluctant fo part with their dollars directly for this sort of thing.
Too busy waging their war against conservatives and the way we are gaining traction, they have no time for anything else. They have all troops activated and engaged on the recent Herman Cain crisis.
Hmmm…
Why do minorities hate republicans?
Maybe, they came to this site, read some of these comments and thought “I’ll only vote democrat until these people leave my country”.
Or minorities could still be angry with that racist Ronald Reagan.
Watch Fox news Sunday, Fox News, ABC, NBC, et. all and watch the spin. Cain’s win shook the elites to their core. Smell the fear.
The knee pads are out and the begging at Christie’s door is sight to behold.
Because like you, ILMC-POTUS, they are dumb as rocks. A product of their third world roots and our public education system.
Next question…….
I thought Britt Hume was going to have an aneurism yesterday. No one is muttering under their breath these days, it’s all sputtering in full spittle.
I was LOL when he was almost literally choking. If anyone had a pacemaker on that panel it would have exploded during the Florida Straw Poll segment. They were not happy campers.
Culmination of the Dems’ Jackpot Voter Breeding Program ( JVBP por sus siglas en inglés)
Ill informed and emotional and deliberately provocative and obnoxious.
Check, check, check and check. Your work here is done. Pick up your check.
OT – Herman Cain seems to have just made a constitutional error. He mentioned congress playing politics with FEMA funding. Does he somehow think FEMA is a federal gov’t responsibility? Where in the Constitution does it provide for a FEMA? Can someone who has paid more attention enlighten me? I don’t want to jump from one person’s opinion set to another. I’d like to jump to “what does the Constitution say/allow”.
IF PROPERLY ADMINSITERED (agreed, Big If), I have no problem with FEMA as a government service that all the states have agreed to. It However, it should be an entity that assists the states when a natural disaster overwhelms them and serves as a communications facilitator between state when a multi-state disaster occurs.
When FEMA starts to direct states and thinks it can prohibit a state from doing something, now it’s over the line.
Alas, once again, “Racism be okay as long as it be da right kind a racism, ya know what I’m sayin’?”
Ilovemycountry:
A little off topic.
Conservatives: A helping hand to the poor of any color. A job.
Liberals: A handout from the taxpayer.
Which would you choose?
Speaking of politically-correct, feel-good racialism, it’s a good thing our wonderful GubMint has all kinds of extra cash lying around.
Otherwise, we couldn’t afford warm and fuzzy officialdom like this!
Still waiting for “Anglo Heritage Month…”
I agree w/ Flyover-
FEMA (IF properly administered) COULD be Constitutional under the General Welfare clause.
I don’t think that is too far of a stretch.
The 2008 ACORN drive turned out to be full of corruption, fraud, made-up names and bribes to vote dem. Doesn’t that bother you at all? If we don’t have free, uncorrupted, honest elections that actually reflect the WILL of the PEOPLE, not dead people or Mickey Mouse, but WE THE PEOPLE, our country is over. Do you remember how the folks in Iraq risked their lives in order to vote? It meant that much to them. People in this country take our elections for granted and millions of them don’t even bother to vote. Many of those who do vote, have no idea who they are voting for (ie an unvetted Obama). The resurgence of Obama’s ACORN creeps under a new name (WE KNOW WHO THEY ARE!) is troubling and scary. Between ACORN, the unions, and the socialist/communists all over the country, including the media and Hollywood…we are in deep deep trouble.
What can we do? I plan to be a poll watcher and someone who will check voters when they come in to vote to make sure they are legit. Or maybe sit down with voting records from your precinct and search them for fraud. I am a senior citizen, but I’m not too old to do that!!
As for the Black Panthers…I have a feeling we haven’t seen the last of them and people need to call the police immediately if they have problems with them. What they shouldn’t do is allow themselves to be intimidated into not voting!!
“What a mess.” September 13, 2008 9:43AM. Well that just about sums up this pRez and his administration doesn’t it? I think the highest priority “shovel ready” jobs will be to build some more prisons which will be needed to house all the crooks associated with, and including the pRez.
We could have one, you know. It just takes people to organize it.
“Crackers for Cain”
In response, RealWorlders want to know:
Why do liberals love stupidity?
Errah, He is truely the Messiah, how many folks across the country will come back from the dead and vote for him this election??!!
Our public schools have done little in the way of true education in decades.
Easy one. Because smart people wouldn’t keep electing corrupt and stupid liberal politicians time and time again.
Hawkeye54,
Climate Change is the price we have paid for teaching “Johnny has Two Mommys” in lieu of the Scientific Method.
Errah
ahhh, he’s still dead and Bush left office 3 years ago . . .
Teddy, I’ve asked this before, but you must have missed it. What does the “errah” at the start of all your posts mean? Curious minds want to know. Thanks!
In our current public indoctrination centers, the Leftist Political Method nearly always trumps the Scientfic Method.
So this explains a few local news stories like one I just heard on radio: Chicago is stinkier lately as wildlife experts in Illinois claim there are more skunks roaming the streets of Chicago. But I thought Obama and his fetid gang had left the city. What’s that? It’s not just Rahmbo “Deadfish”? It’s called what? Oh Obamacorn? Oh no, he’s not giving more speeches here again!
The other I heard Sunday night and I don’t know which propaganda-spewing local MSM affiliate it was since I hardly ever watch them anymore as they fawn, flatter and drool over Obama. I caught it while channel surfing but apparently the contributors and ground army from Obegonesoon’s 2008 purchase of the presidency are no longer interested in
toilingbrownnosing, backscratching, as*kissing or deceiving for the Oblessedone–or was that code for Acorn got busted? So up pops “Operation Vote” to pick upforthe slacker…Happy,
I too wondered about this when I first started reading “Teddy Kennedy’s'” posts.
Naturally, Teddy can best speak for himself, but my surmise was/is this:
The “errah” refers to the late senator’s penchant for clearing his alcohol-drenched throat every time he stumbled up to a podium to begin a glad-handing, incoherent, Boston-accent speech to some politically connected interest group.
Thanks, Gorebot! Teddy…is that a fact?
This is the same ObamACORN that was caught up in a bunch of voter-registration scandals in recent years, doing everything from paying people to register to registering non-citizens.
This is the same ObamACORN that had their funding pulled by Congress after being videotaped in multiple locations promoting child prostitution and tax evasion.
This is the same ObamACORN that was caught illegally mixing political contributions and tax-exempt monies.
Nothing wrong with voter-registration or get-out-the-vote activities. Everything wrong with doing it in ways that violate the law.
Good answer, Donkey, and methinks kwrxxx is one of those troll things I hear so much about! Just a wild guess. We have a few on here and they stick out like a very sore thumb! You would think they’d learn. But then, regressives never do.
mchristian
(laughs)
What makes you think he has a job? Or are you talking about the mailbox?
Most Jewish-Americans probably are going to vote democrat, but like African-Americans, not in as great of numbers for Obama.
The African-American fall-out won’t be as much as with Latinos and Asians, but Obama will not get 96% of their vote.
Most seniors are against ObamaCare, and in times like these they generally vote GOP.
The youth vote will also come down significantly. There simply are not jobs for college graduates (although getting a degree in GLBT, Scandinavian or African-American studies isn’t the brightest idea ever either).
About 1/3 of gays and lesbians voted GOP/TEA PARTY in 2010. Some stats seem to indicate these folks on the whole are better off economically than most, and they aren’t about to give that up so easily like everyone else.
If the ticket includes Allen West, Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin or Herman Cain, this strategy could backfire in the worst way.
My message to the minorities being targeted by “Operation Vote” is this:
Don’t be BAMBOOZLED again. This man is not your friend.
The Race Card is the most rapid-fire, all purpose, over used and abused, ad hominem and vapid weapon of smear, mass deception and diversion ever conceived by man.
It is a weapon under which weak minds are servilely crouched and can be fired with the greatest of ease by the most reason and integrity challenged And in fact, was designed especially for use by them.
It is void of justice. It is void of liberty. It needs no footing in rationality. It is, in plain and clear fact, similar to the lynching of an opponent.
The Race card has no expiration date, and it doesn’t appear to even have a half life.
There are social scientists that theorize that it may continue to exist indefinitely in some form even after time itself has come to an end.
Awesome, Gorebot! You said what I wanted to.
Except where the Leftist Political Method can hijack the scientific method and pervert it. Hurrah! Climate Change!
/sarc off
His throat was not the only thing he needed to clear. And I agree with Gorebot’s thinking about the sound T. Kennedy would make at the beginning of a speech. Very astute observation by Teddy on this.
Just more Marxism, nuttin’ to see here.