Posted on 09/22/2006 8:42:23 PM PDT by mdittmar
DETROIT -- The Democratic Party can no longer sit back and wait until three weeks before an election to ask minorities for their vote, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Friday.
"In many ways, the Democratic Party hasn't moved itself out of the '60s and '70s," Dean said in remarks to the DNC's African-American Leadership Summit, which is aimed at mobilizing black voters and encouraging more minority candidates for state offices.
"If we don't get smart about having folks on the ticket that look like the people whose votes were asking for, in meaningful positions of authority, then we're not going to win. And the party that gets to do that first is the party that's going to win," Dean said.
Annie Mae Holt, a 59-year-old Detroit teacher who attended the gathering, said Democrats must be careful not to allow Republicans to create a divide.
"We need to make sure that people who look like the diversity that is evolving in the United States is represented on our Democratic ticket," Holt said in an interview.
Black voters could be crucial to Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm's effort to overcome a stiff challenge from GOP challenger Dick DeVos. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick recently promised to energize city voters for Granholm and avoid a repeat of the low 1990 turnout that contributed to Republican John Engler narrowly winning the governorship.
"In order for this party to win, we have to include more people," Kilpatrick said. "The numbers say that we need to move the African-American (and) Latino vote inside urban America. Unless we go get it, we won't win."
I'll let his quotes stand on their own.
The 1860s or 1960s? From the days before the Civil War until today, the Democrats have always been the masters of racially divisive campaigning. It's just that today the focus has tended toward the other direction.
Dean needs to realize that it's not the race of the ones running who "win" for the party, it's their message. And that would be ???????????????????????
After 6 years, the dims have yet to craft a coherent message. Other than wanting to turn us into a socialist nation, raise taxes, allow gay marriage, and allow terrorists full run of our country, what can the dims do for us?
NOTHING! I'll be voting straight GOP until the day I die. The GOP isn't as conservative as I'd like them to be but I have to go with my pledge to keep libnuts out of power. They should never again be allowed to govern.
So they are going to sit back and wait until 6 weeks now?
The Michigan governor's race has been reduced to attacking the Republican candidate (DeVos) for what he did as President of Amway. Of course Amway is one of the largest employers in West Michigan, vibrant enough to pour millions of philanthropic dollars into medical research and entertainment facilities. But I guess the Democrats would prefer the business acumen of Ford or the death grip of unions to continue to lead the state down the tubes.
Democrats - still patronizing blacks for their votes after all these years.
LBJ - "When we pass this Great Society legislation we'll have the n*gg*rs voting for us for 200 years."
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was.
Is that a direct and accurate quote?
THE rat is WORRIED!
In Maryland Steele is up with 33% of Black vote. If a poll can get 33% to ADMIT to support for Steele he may very well have 40%.
THE is WORRIED! and he should be.
"But the problem we have is, some here on FR and the Republican party are going to allow the DEMS to win in November because they think a " A lose in 2006 for the Republicans, means a win in 2008 for the Republicans ".
Prophet..I know what you mean. I hope they realize how much damage a dim-controlled House or Senate can do to this nation. I don't want to set up Congress as dim because we'd then revert to the clintoon era where nothing of consequence gets done. We have to worry most about our own safety and security, above all other issues. The dims are not concerned one bit. That's my biggest fear.
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