Posted on 07/26/2016 10:28:47 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
How about we call them “negroes”, or “blacks”, or “colored people”, or “people of color”, or “afro-Americans”, or “african-Americans” ...
Let’s substitute the term golden retriever.
My rough guess is that about 40% of them might be persuaded to vote, overwhelmingly the men. George W. Bush's campaign made significant effort in 2004 and got maybe half that number.
At the time, most of them offered to pray for him but weren't much interested in registering to vote. Things may have changed a lot in 12 years.
Most Amish understand that they need to make minor compromises to live in modern era. They can use power tools as long as someone else owns them. They can even have phones as long as it is a community type phone in a booth outside their homes. That includes mobile as well as landlines.
They still have large families and the custom of sending their kids out to live among the English (non-Amish) for two years as they reach adulthood. Those who decide not to return face considerably less shunning (ostracism) as in the past. On the contrary, many become valuable contacts to promote more business opportunities with the non-Amish world. This includes a lot, lot more than building barns and selling agricultural produce now.
The truth will make you free.
Amish Amish or Freeper Amish? I gots to know.
A common Amish joke in these parts is that God made Mennonites to drive the Amish where they need to go.
Wow, amazing.
Yet I had seen Amish ride the trains going to and from western PA when I was away a few weeks back.
They know our country is in BIG TROUBLE and that one of their home state cities is hosting the radical lefties this week.
http://mennoworld.org/2016/07/25/news/ads-introduce-trump-to-the-amish/
http://www.cpbj.com/article/20160713/CPBJ01/160719928/amish-pac-launches-protrump-ads
And this from 2012:
She’s so comfortable that not long ago she stepped up on a political soapbox during a conversation with an Amish man: “I kind of shook my finger at him and said, ‘You know, if you Amish would vote we wouldn’t have Barack Obama as president.’”
The man put his head down and answered, “I know.”
Unfortunately, trains do not go everywhere the Amish need to go these days, so they will ride in buses or automobiles as long as someone else is driving.
Wow! Obama/Hillary managed to piss off the Amish.
Yes they do. I believe it is the Mennonites who don't
Based on my observations, that what the "English" are for.
GW got their endorsement years ago. The FedGov has been after them for a long time. Water, milk, not hiring pickers, EPA, etc. This is probably their way of fighting back.
Alaska Bush people got convicted .....Bush did it!
Is that backwards mounted Eotech I spy on his weapon?
Is that backwards mounted Eotech I spy on his weapon?
Neither is Amish PAC.
But not a lot of turnout.
"Donald Kraybill, an expert on the Amish people at Elizabethtown College, said he guesses that the most generous turnout scenario would be about 2,000 Amish voters each in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
In 2004, President George W. Bush received about 1,300 Amish votes in heavily Amish Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, he said — the product of the most successful political outreach to the community in recent memory.
“George W. Bush is not Donald Trump,” said Kraybill, whom the PAC is hoping to consult (he declined to say whether he would respond to it, though he hasn’t yet).
“There’s a lot of aspects about Trump that are antithetical to Amish values and Amish beliefs,” Kraybill said. “This is a very different situation now than it was in 2004.”"
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