Posted on 06/01/2009 1:31:33 PM PDT by kellynla
Neal Cavuto is reporting that 79.6% of the Chrysler dealerships that were closed were GOP donors. 20.4% donated to the Democrat Party.
Make sure the Democrats donated to the right Democrats. It won’t make any difference. 0 is our dictator, and the state media will cover for him.
Yep. 2 different studies were done last year. In one, 86% of dealerships were Republican owned and in the other study 92% were Republican owned.
Most small business are run by Republicans....and if they started out democrat they will turn Republican after several years of running the business.
However, if we take the democratic tack, we trumpet this number non-stop. Eventually, the American public believes these were targeted closures.
That’s how they work. Couldn’t hurt to “repeat a number.”
Oh yes, and the other thing to look for is how much of that 79.6 percent Republican number of total dealers represents the total number of Republican dealerships.
Shaking my head....
First, I have little sympathy for car dealers, GM and Chrysler. Each had a bad business model and were beaten in the marketplace by Toyota and Honda.
And somehow, the executives at Honda and Toyota were able to understand the American auto consumer while GM and Chrysler failed.
Honda gives us the Civic while GM gives us the Pontiac Aztec.
Toyota gives us the Prius while Chrysler gives us the PT Cruiser.
He was Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff.
post 17 is for you
I have no sympathy for car dealers and less for government, so that should tell you how low government is in my estimation.
What about the top selling Chevrolet Malibu, Impala, Cavalier etc?? Toyota had some dogs that compare to the Aztec (in sales and ugly looks).
I asked, “well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?” and the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.
And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.
And when I say “eliminate,” I mean “kill.”
Twenty-five million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.
And they were dead serious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ
You don’t have to like car dealers to realize the evil inherent in government ownership and direction of business. Think how much government sucks, think how much some businesses suck, now combine them and see where you are left. No where to hide.
Go see if you can get a teaching position as a republican in a democrat controlled school system, or any job within the government. see if they shake you down for contributions once you do get a job. Now extend that to all businesses.
“Now all restaurants are Taco Bell” Demolition Man
Actually, Johnson donated to Obama’s campaign and McLarty campaigned for Obama. McLarty is former White House chief of staff for Bill Clinton.
Oh, and Nate Silver got his donor data from the Huffington Post.
- JP
Keep you pantyhose on. The data for Chrysler dealers staying open just got put into spreadsheet for this weekend. One one preliminary study has been done so far, and it undercounted the number of owners who donated to Obama (by only counting the majority owners of dealerships instead of all owners).
- JP
Now if we know who the remained that weren’t closed donated to if at all then we may have something to go on. My guess is that many of the car dealership owners are more likely to donate to business friendly politicians at least on the national scene and that would be Republicans in general. On the local scene they will donate based upon the local controlling gov’t officials. jmo.
Ping!
It could be age-related memory decline, but I recall McClarty was heavily involved (as a fellow Georgian) in the Carter administration. I recall Leon Panetta as Clinton's COS. I'm just too lazy to google for an answer.
many of these closed were in Rural areas also, because those brought in less money than those in the metro areas.
Don’t know about Chrysler but a GM dealer was quoted regarding the closing as to if he was that concerned going into GMs mailing of the notices. He said not really at this time as there were some 1250 GM dealers across the US that sold less than 50 vehicles last year thus his thoughts were they would make up the bulk of the 1100 who received notices.
I also suspect you’ll find that a lot of the closing were single line dealerships where there was a multi line dealer not that far away that was left open. I don’t know that for sure but some of the ones compaining were single line stores.
What we really need to see is an analysis that matches dealers on sales volume, then looks at whether dealers with similar viability characteristics show a pattern of being saved/terminated that matches their donation preferences.
I think the raw numbers are pretty meaningless.
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