I grew up in Loretta Sanchez’s district. It is very anti-Republican, and I don’t see what Tran could have done to win the election. I faced a lot of discrimination from teachers and students alike my freshman year of high school due to not be a raving liberal. It’s the same in most of the district.
I am sorry you had to go through that. It is increasingly difficult for any conservative or Republican to win in California in a statewide race, even as the GOP wins in most other parts of the country. And California is in the worst shape of possibly any state in the union, and its been run by the Democrats for the past twenty years or longer. One has to wonder how bad conditions have to be in California for people to wake up.
I think that they already did and rejected the blandishments of the Republican party.
How about an example of a GOP “blandishment” to minorities in this past election?
Black Republicans playing the race card about a statement on riding in the back seat of a car. You call that a substantive issue?
I agree that wasn’t a substantive issue, but I’m not seeing how it’s an example of blandishment.
Jimmy Carter, the oracle of liberalism, told us that the majority of people who were opposed to Obama were opposed to him based on his race. So did almost every other voicebox on the left. To them playing the race card was a VERY substantive issue, because by playing the race card, attention was drawn away from the radical agenda of Obama which Americans had not had the time to fully understand.
While I agree the Democrats play the race card whenever they can and benefited from a “minority wave” in 2008 due to Obama’s race, he didn’t promise gay acitivists marriage and I’m not clear that he promised anything specific to black voters.
Check the Michigan governor’s race:
Blanket statements repeatedly disproved. Change the record.
Okay…that’s a better example. Thanks.
Of course.Okay…that’s a better example. Thanks.
I’m assuming you give Mr. Snyder some kudos for reaching out to the community?
Right, he needs to promise free stuff to people. Apparently that is what they respond to.
He didn’t do it overtly, but it is clear and presently obvious that he supports gay marriage. The idea is not that he goes out and promises things, but he represents someone who will do something. He went out and made quite a few “convincing” speeches to black voters; he didn’t promise anything specific, but he did suggest that he would do something.
youtube.com/watch?v=rtfzMLS_-NU
I don’t know about free stuff for people, but as a governor, he should have a program to improve Detroit and better the situation for his constituents. I’m opposed to most federal programs, but I expect them to be handled by state and local government. That is the correct place for it to happen!
Right, and you understand that “better conditions” for many people means “more free stuff from the government”.
Nice blanket statement. You should consider that a Democrat just beat a Republican by 69% to 30% in the race for Cook County president. This Democrat until Tuesday was the president’s alderman on the Chicago city council. Since we’re on minorities in this thread, you should note that the new Democratic county president is a black woman. **She ran on a platform of rolling back taxes.
Uh, sorry, when taxpayers keep more of what they earn, they didn’t get anything free from anybody.
I didn’t say this was. But this is certainly not shilling more free stuff from government.
Not really, but they were merely playing by the same standards of liberals. Obama basically says, “Republicans will have to ride in the back (of the bus)” Please. If a white politician had said that, liberals would be crying “racism!” “racism!”. Some of those crying would be those who post on these forums.