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Black Votes Matter PAC suspends operations ("We think the race is over")
nypost.com ^ | October 23, 2016 | 4:59pm | Updated | By Carl Campanile

Posted on 10/26/2016 4:50:42 PM PDT by 11th_VA

A group founded earlier this year to help mobilize black turnout for the Nov. 8 elections has suspended operations, The Post has learned.

Black Votes Matter PAC was created to address concerns about a drop-off in the black vote without President Obama, the first African-American elected to the White House, on the ballot.

Black Votes Matter PAC founder Charlie King said the allies in Hillary Clinton’s camp made it known that a separate, third-party effort wasn’t needed to turn out the African-American vote.

“We stopped pushing a couple of weeks ago. They didn’t think Black Votes Matters was needed to get out the African-American vote. We had a lot of people geared up,” said King, a former director of the New York State Democratic Party who has ties to the Rev. Al Sharpton, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the black political establishment.

King had been working with groups including the NAACP and Urban League.

King said the black turnout won’t equal the historic percentage of African-American voters who flocked to the polls in 2008 and 2012 to back Obama. But he said the black turnout should be robust enough to help Clinton defeat GOP rival Donald Trump.

“We think the race is over,” he said.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: black; blacks; blackvote; blackvotesmatter; election; georgesoros; naacp; soros; urbanleague
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To: 11th_VA
Black Votes Matter PAC suspends operations ("We think the race is over")

That's moronspeak for "we got caught in an illegal conspiracy with Hillary thugs paying for violence at Trumpevents, so we are pretending to stop..."

Moving right along...

41 posted on 10/26/2016 5:39:15 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: 11th_VA

More likely, Soros cut the funding off.


42 posted on 10/26/2016 5:39:26 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittanc)
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To: 11th_VA

I have a sneaking suspicion that they’re downplaying black voter turnout because a lot of blacks are voting for Trump.


43 posted on 10/26/2016 5:40:36 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: 11th_VA

When will all of the minority groups realize it is a parasitic relationship they have with the beast? Do you really think Hillary will use up her energy and power for their cause? Think of all the favors she owes. She’s already been paid billions. I do not recall any minority groups/causes opening their wallets.


44 posted on 10/26/2016 5:40:50 PM PDT by dgbrown
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To: 11th_VA

Sounds like they raised all of the money they expect to raise and now they are going to blow it(on themselves). I wonder what they are going to buy?


45 posted on 10/26/2016 5:41:25 PM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: Bullish

Do they don’t drink MAD DOG 20-20 or THUNDERBIRD anymore?


46 posted on 10/26/2016 5:42:14 PM PDT by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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To: Gaffer

More likely they found out the more they pushed the more votes for Trump.


47 posted on 10/26/2016 5:43:44 PM PDT by Kadric
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To: Thickman
On the contrary. If Trump is elected POTUS, your race will rise and become part of the American Dream.

Only if they have the ability and the determination to join civilization.

48 posted on 10/26/2016 5:45:43 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: 11th_VA

“’We think the race is over,’ he said.”

It is, knucklehead, just not in the way you think.


49 posted on 10/26/2016 5:47:37 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: 11th_VA

My guess is, they ran into two things: Lots of black Trump supporters, and an even larger number of unenthused, disinterested blacks, who can’t be motivated to vote.

At the end of the day, they realized that blacks just aren’t into Hillary.


50 posted on 10/26/2016 5:49:42 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: 11th_VA

“We think the race is over,”

That has been the media meme for the past couple of days. Must have been the talking point sent out by the campaign in their daily 10:30 am phone call to their associates.


51 posted on 10/26/2016 5:53:21 PM PDT by Rebelbase (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: Gaffer

BINGO!

My first thought as well: The checks stopped coming in.


52 posted on 10/26/2016 5:55:21 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: God luvs America
north Bronx down Baychester Avenue.
Know the area well, we lived right near The Hutch in Pelham Bay. We moved to Rockland County when I was 10. Spring Valley has a large Caribbean population and they are OUTRAGED at the screw job the earthquake victims in Haiti got from the Clinton Foundation. Also nearby in Monsey and New Square is a huge number of Orthodox Jews. Traditionally they vote Democrat especially locally but they did support Reagan both times and the ones in NYC overwhelmingly voted for Mayor Guliani in both elections. And to say the least they were unimpressed with Her Henious when she ran for US Senate. Obviously, Trump is no Reagan, but Rockland could go Republican for the first time since 1984, and there's more of these people than ever before living there. This, in and of itself wouldn't be enough for Trump to win NY but who knows?
53 posted on 10/26/2016 5:57:08 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: rb22982

“Early voting in NC black turnout is down 30% from 2012 so far”

One day, in a not so distant future, those black Democrats who stayed home on election day, will realize it was the best vote of their lives.


54 posted on 10/26/2016 5:58:18 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Gaffer

Too bad their obsession with race isn’t over.


55 posted on 10/26/2016 6:01:32 PM PDT by PTBAA
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To: Billyv

This whole narrative of Hillary being so sure she’s got it won is a set-up to make vote-tabulation shenanigans by Soros’ company seem credible. Soros himself said he expects Trump to win the popular vote in a landslide but to lose the electoral vote. How does that happen? Same way as the 2012 vote: the corrupt dem/mafia machine in key large democrat precincts, to neutralize the popular vote everywhere else. They don’t need to bus anybody if they control the vote tabulation in the few critical places that will determine the outcome.

To me this move, in the face of Trump’s inroads with African-Americans, says one of two things: either they are counting o vote tabulation fraud (which they have prepared for by saying the Russians might “fake” election fraud...), or they are figuring that even if Trump wins the vote Obama will get his war with Russia to keep an inauguration from happening.

I do think that O’Keefe’s videos have rattled some cages. They don’t know who to trust, and as far as I’m concerned these jerks who hire trolls to pose as “conservatives” deserve a dose of their own medicine.


56 posted on 10/26/2016 6:27:37 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Gaffer

So they are not getting anymore money.


57 posted on 10/26/2016 6:29:24 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Gaffer

Either that or all the hype is backfiring on the witch.


58 posted on 10/26/2016 6:30:43 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (#NeverHillary and we won't forget the backstabbers and sellouts.)
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To: 11th_VA

Even Blacks realize that Crooked Hillary is indeed crooked and that the Democratic Party has done nothing but use them for decades. Promises, no action. Continued poverty and despair. Crime, broken families, tattered neighborhoods. That’s what Democrats have delivered and Trump is forcing them to pay attention. Like Donald said, “What do you have to lose?”


59 posted on 10/26/2016 6:42:41 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: 11th_VA

Going back to this again. “The race is over” is the same deceptive tactic as the climate changers saying “there’s no more debating, the science is settled.”


60 posted on 10/26/2016 6:46:09 PM PDT by Rebelbase (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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