[twoputt]

Before Christmas, I was channel surfing and I happen to come across C-SPAN that was televising a conference sponsored by the Black GOP of Florida. One of the people at the head table, and I forget his name but he was an influential African-American, gave an interesting statistic. He said that a large group of the black population was surveyed and given the platforms of the Republicans and the Democrats. However, neither of the platforms were identified as such. He said 70% of the respondents identified with the Republican platform! Yet, 90% of the blacks support the Democrats. Needless to say, he was very frustrated how the Republican party has not communicated to the blacks as what they have to offer.

[DLfromthedesert]

Michael Steele for VP!!!!

[RobbyS]

Needless to say, he was very frustrated how the Republican party has not communicated to the blacks as what they have to offer. (1) The Republican Party is remarkably tone-death when it talks to non-WASPs. (2) the blacks are still mistrustful of all Republican promises. Maybe after the Civil Rights generation starts to disappear in ten years or so, and of the Democrats have no locked up the new generation of black leaders, or maybe the blacks will begin to realize they have more in common with WASPs than with Latinos. Anyway, in New Vada, the blacks went for Obama but the whites, the Latinos and the Jews went for Hillary. If the Dims can keep that coalition together, and they also have the gays, then they will be hard to beat.