2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"Romney to woo black voters simply to convince white women that he likes blacks" by John Aravosis
Romney to woo black voters simply to convince white women that he likes blacksBy John Aravosis at America Blog
http://www.americablog.com/2012/05/romney-to-woo-black-voters-simply-to.html
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And it's consistent with what a Republican friend told me years ago.
I remember being worried about former RNC chair Ken Mehlman's outreach to blacks, a good eight years ago. And a Republican friend corrected me, telling me not to worry about black voters defecting - the Republicans didn't want or expect their votes. What they were actually doing was trying to convince white suburban middle-of-the-road soccer moms that Republicans weren't a hateful, intolerant, racist party because - see! - we're wooing blacks!
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limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)It's no longer enough to pretend to like blacks.
If Romney wants to woo white women he'll have to pretend to like gays.
Time to shake up the etch-a-sketch.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)I don't know how he's going to be able to pretend to
like gays. Will gay republicans stand with him?
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I just wanted to see what that looks like in a subject line!
applegrove
(118,778 posts)Historic NY
(37,453 posts)its like Trump saying he has a good relation with the blacks.
This is a factually correct statement.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Which is why he's polling in the single digits among AA voters.
P.S. Which blacks does Donald Dump have a good relationship with? Jack Black? Rebecca Black?
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)Happydayz
(112 posts)They can tolerate Latinos, some of them are teabaggers ala Rubio, but blacks they hate with a passion. I doubt rethug women who vote for Mittens or are leaning toward Mittens like blacks to begin with, so there is no need to woo these white rethug women.