Posts Made By: Darian Rachal

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

I quit watching when Leno left as well.....I have seen a few clips from some of the current crop of idiot hosts that were good but not enough to make me put up with the political agenda they are all espousing regularly.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

I hate to break it to you Darian, but blacks are not voting for Donald Trump anytime soon. Calling on blacks to honor you with their vote and then in the same breath praising Confederate General Lee is not going to "wake black people up." In 2016, 89% of all blacks voted for Clinton, and 94% of all black women voted for Clinton. Trump and the Republicans have done absolutely nothing to endear the minority vote, and this canard about black unemployment being at an all-time low is not going to work either. Unemployment is historically low for everyone across all classes, races, and genders, yet unemployment among blacks is still 3 to 4 times higher than whites. The Republicans have certainly done wonders for the female vote though!

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

A number of polls accurately predicted Trumps victory even if the pollsters themselves were skeptical:
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-polls-20161109-story.html
Rasmussen Reports Calls It Right was another among national polls that made the correct call.
I'm sure that most of the nation, though, was surprised by the upset.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Darian, Try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNYZYxLSgPQ

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/10/14/david-perdue-snatch-phone-voter-suppression-sot-nr-vpx.cnn
The GOP gubernatorial candidate tried the same voter suppression technique and lost in court and here he is again doing the same thing. If your name has a hyphen added or an extra space added by a computer in the state, you're the guilty party. Most of the "errors" appear on African American voter ballots and or a disportioncate number of Democratic ones, 50,000 plus... 

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Well, let's see now, what exactly have the Republicans done to win the black vote? Was it Trump's divisive and relentless politicization of black NFL players kneeling in a peaceful protest that won them over? Was it when Trump defended "beautiful" confederate statues? Was it when Trump refused to denounce and reject white supremacists at Charlottesville and any other time he's had the opportunity? Was it when he attacked Maxine Waters and caller her "low IQ?" Was it when he attacked Don Lemon and said, "Lebron James has just been interviewed by the dumbest man on television!" Was it when Trump praised Confederate General Lee at a campaign rally in Ohio? Was it when the Trump administration started detaining and imprisoning minority children in internment camps? Was it when he called Omarosa "that dog?" Did I imagine that Trump did all these things? Is it just our imagination that Trump delivers racially charged insults all the time? Someone is living in a pretend world all right, especially if they think Trump is suddenly going to win the black vote.

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

The very reason I told James the rest of his post was worth nothing.....I heard Trump's speech and knew that was yet another LIE fostered by the haters and sycophants like him gobble it up like candy.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

They corrected the story and good for them. However, one mistake does not invalidate all the other poor optics and perceptions that Trump and the GOP have with black voters. You guys are kidding yourselves if you think black voters, or minority voters, or women voters or any other class of voters Trump and the GOP has either mocked or marginalized is going to be flocking to Trump and the GOP. Even if Trump were to double his black vote in 2020, assuming he runs in 2020, it would still be a tiny fraction of all black voters. Surely you guys aren't still holding out hope for the #walkaway meme are you?