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.
I LOVE THIS!!!
Herman Cain is a wonderful man!
Now I have to decide between Godfathers and Domino's ...
GO HERMAN!
Bingo! Thanks..............FRegards
No Godfathers close to me. I don't have a choice. ;-)
He is a wonderful man!
He walks the way he talks, and God blesses him abundantly!
May he succeed with this ad campaign.
Good for Mr. Cain, this is truly a worthy endeavor.
expect some namecalling by Dems. They hate Rich, Conservative Pro-Lifers. Add Black to that and it makes their heads explode.
We've all been morons at one time or another and I've had my full share - just ask my mother-in-law.
bump
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Race
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White Black/Other Total
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Age group (yrs)/ Marital status No. % No. % No. %
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Age group
<15 2,180 0.6 2,555 1.1 4,735 0.8
15-19 69,180 19.9 42,203 18.2 111,383 19.2
20-24 111,646 32.2 77,220 33.3 188,866 32.6
25-29 75,816 21.8 55,333 23.9 131,149 22.7
30-34 49,181 14.2 32,911 14.2 82,092 14.2
35-39 29,793 8.6 16,771 7.2 46,564 8.0
>=40 9,383 2.7 4,631 2.0 14,014 2.4
Total* 347,179 100.0 231,624 100.0 578,803 100.0
Marital status
Married 65,120 22.1 32,724 16.6 97,844 19.9
Unmarried 229,673 77.9 164,732 83.4 394,405 80.1
Total+ 294,793 100.0 197,456 100.0 492,249 100.0
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* Data from 34 states and New York City; excludes three states where unknown race was 15%.
Percentages may not add to 100.0 because of rounding.
+ Data from 29 states and New York City; excludes six states where unknown race or marital
status was 15%.
================================================================================================== (source) Let's crunch these numbers to get a ballpark figure.
Assumptions:
* population of 280,000,000 at time of study.
* Blacks comprise 12.5% of population.
* Whites comprise 75% of population.
* Women comprise half the population.
Given these assumptions, we have 347,179 white abortions for 34 states against a white population of 210,000,000, half of whom are women. We have 35,000,000 in black population, half women.
White abortion rate: approx. 3.31 per 1,000 women.
Black abortion rate: approx. 13.2 per 1,000 women.
That black abortion rate is 4.00 times that of the white rate, using those 1995 numbers and the designated assumptions.
Good post! Need lots more like him in the media's face.
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