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Redstate
Race
War to Victory
By
Erick Erickson
April
22nd, 2014
The
Democrats do not have an agenda to run on in 2014. And contrary to
the prognostications of the left, no doubt consoling themselves,
Obamacare is not going to sink the GOP. In fact, the Republican
Party, like the Democrats in 2006 and the GOP in 2010, can run as the
party of “NO”. Most Americans are tired of Barack Obama, they are
tired of the Democrats’ controlling the levers of government, and
they are ready for a change.
The
only card the Democrats have left to play is race. Mind you, this is
not a card they will play to victory. But it is a card they will play
to mitigate damage. We are already seeing it and it will be combined
with the “War on Women.”
The
Democrats need to turn out single women and black voters to hold on
to the Senate in close races. But single white women are signaling
they are tired of the Democrats. Likewise, Hispanic voters are
surprisingly amenable to not sticking with their coalition. They may
not vote Republican, but they might just stay home.
That
leaves the only reliable portion of the Democrats’ voting coalition
— black voters. But black voters historically do not vote in off
year elections as much as in Presidential elections. Additionally, in
2010, Barack Obama could not turn them out despite his best efforts.
The
Democrats will take a calculated risk of inflaming racial tensions in
the country in order to get black voters to the polls.
Just
the other day, liberals declared air pollution racist. If black
voters do not support the Democrats, the Republicans will poison
their air.
Dana
Milbank, the liberal columnist for the Washington Post, claims the
GOP is going after Eric Holder because of racism. He claims the GOP
went easy on Sebelius because she is white, but are hard on Holder
because he is black.
Eric
Holder himself is blaming Republican racism for his problems. If
black voters don’t stick together, the Republicans could take the
Senate and compound their racism against him...
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