Here's a picture of Herman Cain on the book he authored....
Posted on 09/13/2006 7:23:23 PM PDT by dukeman
Washington, DC -- With the balance of power in Congress hanging in the air, a leading African American businessman says black voters in the United States should put their historical pro-life values above political party. That means voting for pro-life candidates rather than supporting Democratic candidates across the board.
Herman Cain is best known as the former chairman and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza. He is a political commentator and was a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
“More and more African Americans are pro-life," Cain said in a statement LifeNews.com obtained. “Our message to African Americans is simple -- it's time you vote for candidates who support our values."
Cain will underscore that message with a $1 million advertising campaign in key states and congressional districts targeting black radio programs and urban radio stations young African Americans enjoy. Some of the ads focus on abortion.
The campaign is a second go-round based on a highly successful Ohio campaign in 2004 that helped President Bush garner 17% of the African American vote in the Buckeye State – double his vote total from the 2000 presidential race.
The ads appeared in Dayton, Cleveland and Cincinnati Ohio, as well as in Colorado, Minnesota, Florida, Georgia and other states.
The ads are funded by Americas PAC, a Cain-backed organization, which former Al Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile said did a great job in turning out black pro-life votes.
Americas PAC's African American radio strategy “hampered our ability to expand the off-year electorate in 2002," Brazile said.
The new campaign should resonate again with black voters as polls show African Americans are more pro-life than Americans as a whole.
In an August 2004 poll sponsored by Pace University and Rock the Vote, 54 percent of all Americans declared themselves pro-life while just 44 percent said they supported legal abortion. However, African-American voters took a pro-life position by a larger 59 to 42 percent margin.,p>
As a snapshot of that support, polls in Florida found that 77 percent of black Americans backed a measure on the 2004 ballot to notify parents before a minor teenager's abortion. Some 65 percent of Florida voters in general voted for the measure that November.
With black voters so strongly pro-life, black commentator Star Parker says that the increasing desire to support pro-life candidates this election is the beginning of a trend.
"Black pastors and their congregants are waking up to the fact that the liberal agenda that they have been supporting all these years does not liberate but denigrates, dehumanizes, and enslaves," Parker said.
Since the 1973 Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited abortions, 15 million abortions have been performed on black women. African-American women also have abortions hat much higher rates than do white women.
God Bless this Man!
...helped President Bush garner 17% of the African American vote...
I've always claimed that if the GOP could consistently garner a mere 20% of the black vote on a national basis, it would be the death of the rat party in the federal govt and in 48 of the 50 states. (Only Vermont and Hawaii would be fertile ground for them). GO HERMANN GO!!!
54 percent of all Americans declared themselves pro-life while just 44 percent said they supported legal abortion. However, African-American voters took a pro-life position by a larger 59 to 42 percent margin.
Shocking isn't it? Makes you wonder how those baby-killing gutter rats ever earned the undying localty of the black voters.
I think I may have to contribute to Hermann's PAC!
Very fine words.
I wish Cain had run for Lt. Governor instead of Cagel. He'd have wupped Reed in the primary too, but he'd be way cooler then Cagel.
I'm more thinking Maryland. Cain would be the PERFECT person to help Steele. The Pro-life thing won't help with Swann much as it's a state race.
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jm
Of course, thanks to Roe v. Wade, Blacks are now the 3rd largest racial group after Whites and Hispanics. If Conservatives championed abortion, the left would call this genocide.
I am glad that, given his health problems, God has seen fit to heal this good man. We, all Americans, can be so proud of him!
The precise figure escapes me right now (so I won't guess), but a disproportionately large percantage of abortions in America are of African-American babies. Sadly, that is perfectly in line with Margaret Sanger's (a Planned Parenthood founder) racist approach to the "control" of minority populations. This is really, really rank stuff which the libs try to run away from. We shouldn't let them.
I've seen the ad here in GA. It's very powerful.
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The question is whether Casey Cagle will get out of the way for his running, especially if Cagle does a good job as Lt Governor. My one big worry about Mr. Cain is his health, did he not have a problem recently ?
I was supporting Mr. Cain for the Senate, but he seems far better suited to executive capacity, so being a Governor would be an excellent way to show off his leadership skills.
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Note the gap between what is said/polled and the reality of a higher number of Black abortions. Since some women have more than one abortion, it would be curious the gap, not in the number of babies aborted by demographic group, but in the number of women who do it.
On a separate note, my experience has been that a single issue, alone, has not attracted Black voters. There must be that single issue PLUS some other factor... maybe an attractive/charismatic candidate, maybe economics.
Follow the money, people who get a check from the government, whether directly or indirectly through a government funded non-profit, are more likely to vote their pocket book than their church. People who work in the private for-profit sector are more likely to be low tax, get the government out of my pocket types. I found that true for Black voters who voted for Bush and for local candidates in 2001.
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