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African Americans Moving off the Dems Plantation!

“ An internal document prepared by a top Democratic strategist warns that a majority of African American voters in Maryland are open to supporting Republican Senate candidate Michael S. Steele and advises the party not to wait to "knock Steele down.” Washington Post


Recent polling data for Maryland’s upcoming senatorial campaign suggests that up to forty-four percent of African American voters may be willing to cross traditional party lines to cast their vote for Republican Senate candidate Michael S. Steele, a conservative African American. Cornell Belcher, a polling consultant for the Democratic National Committee polled nearly five hundred African Americans in Maryland and posted these results.
Understandably, DNC officials are alarmed that this type of sentiment within the usually rock solid African American community could be eroding the Democratic base nationwide. Other important battleground states such Ohio and Pennsylvania feature strong African American conservatives. In Ohio current Secretary of State Ken Blackwell is likely to win the Republican nomination for governor, while in Pennsylvania, former NFL star Lynn Swann is the gubernatorial frontrunner. Both are expected to garner a larger percentage of the African American vote much larger than typically Republican support.

Ken Blackwell of Ohio


All of this is good news for African Americans. For years, they have been taken for granted and marginalized by Democrats. Democrats have prevented upward mobility to the Black community by dooming them to endless social programs. After trillions of dollars have been spent, these liberal programs have not created opportunity but instead have created an interminable underclass of African Americans subservient to the Democrats. They have told African Americans that they cannot be successful on their own merit; but instead need their help to get a job or into college via affirmative action. Democrats for years have also shamelessly played the race card seeking to divide people along racial lines for their own petty political gains. Democrats have also continually denigrated strong successful Black leaders like Condi Rice and slandered their character as “Uncle Toms”. They only accept Black leaders who drink the liberal Kool-aid and who stick to the liberal talking points a la Jesse Jackson. Democrats like Hillary only like African American leaders who stay on her plantation.

The fact is that for more than fifty years the Democratic Party has done little to help the African American community. Many Blacks are now starting to realize this and turning to the Republican Party. African Americans also tend to be more conservative on many social issues which has helped sway many Black voters to the right. There is a golden opportunity for Republicans today to make inroads into the Black voting caucus. President Bush received less than eighteen percent of the African American vote in 2006. If Republicans could increase that percentage to around twenty-five percent they would be nearly unbeatable nationwide.

This takes work obviously, but the door is open. The best place for Republicans to start garnering more African American votes is to showcase the many strong conservative African Americans leaders across the country. Individuals such as Steele, Blackwell, and Swann provide a conservative option to remove the yoke of Democratic disregard.

I am proud to not only support but to also be working as a volunteer for Ken Blackwell in Ohio. Ken is a strong conservative and a leader. Blackwell is by far the best candidate for governor in Ohio. Ohio must stay red in order for Republicans to be successful in that important state in 2008. Recently the state has been leaning blue due to a disasterous Republican run statehouse and Governor Bob Taft. Ken is a conservative for a change both literally and figuratively. Blackwell is the man to ensure that conservative principles remain in Columbus and I predict that someday he may become a national political figure.


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