Robinson: Why Won't The GOP Pursue Black Voters?
img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-48803" title="Eugene Robinson 2 (1)" src="/files/wxrimport/2010-10/eugene-robinson-2-1.jpg" alt="" width="205" height="105" /><Eugene Robinson writes in the Washington Post:
This has been such an unpredictable political year that it's hard to have confidence in any of the forecasts for November. How unpredictable? Well, I'd like to meet the pundit or prognosticator who imagined that a major-party candidate for the U.S. Senate would begin a campaign ad by declaring, "I'm not a witch."
Christine O'Donnell's sorcery problem aside, there's one thing I can say with confidence about next month's midterm election: African Americans will vote overwhelmingly for Democratic Party candidates at every level. This is perfectly rational political behavior -- but in many ways it's a shame.
Don't misunderstand. I'm firmly convinced that the progressive agenda championed by the Democrats is much better for African Americans, and for the nation as a whole, than the conservative agenda favored by Republicans. But I also believe that in politics, as in business, competition is good. Monopolies inevitably take their customers for granted.
And this, frankly, is what Democrats have been doing with black voters for decades.
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