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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://urbangrounds.com/2008/07/blacks-vote-donk/#comment-153913</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Dude–&lt;/blockquote&gt;

How old are you? You and your ilk act like this is not only the first election you ever voted in but the first election you ever heard of. 

If you would have cracked open a history book when you were in high school, you would know that voters swing from one political party to the other every 4-12 years. And it won&#039;t be long before the donks are out of power and the gop back in. Get use to it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Dude–</p></blockquote>
<p>How old are you? You and your ilk act like this is not only the first election you ever voted in but the first election you ever heard of. </p>
<p>If you would have cracked open a history book when you were in high school, you would know that voters swing from one political party to the other every 4-12 years. And it won&#8217;t be long before the donks are out of power and the gop back in. Get use to it.</p>
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		<title>By: No2Liberals</title>
		<link>http://urbangrounds.com/2008/07/blacks-vote-donk/#comment-153908</link>
		<dc:creator>No2Liberals</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t care if she runs in 2012 or not, but that she is now able to attack liberalism with major support from conservatives.
As for being mistaken, actually I believe it is you and the left.  The fear they reveal in their vehement attacks is palpable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t care if she runs in 2012 or not, but that she is now able to attack liberalism with major support from conservatives.<br />
As for being mistaken, actually I believe it is you and the left.  The fear they reveal in their vehement attacks is palpable.</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin Parker</title>
		<link>http://urbangrounds.com/2008/07/blacks-vote-donk/#comment-153907</link>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Parker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dude--

   I so hope Palin gets nominated in 2012.

   Bring it ON!

   What you mistake for fear is actually ridicule.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dude&#8211;</p>
<p>   I so hope Palin gets nominated in 2012.</p>
<p>   Bring it ON!</p>
<p>   What you mistake for fear is actually ridicule.</p>
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		<title>By: No2Liberals</title>
		<link>http://urbangrounds.com/2008/07/blacks-vote-donk/#comment-153878</link>
		<dc:creator>No2Liberals</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All that is fine and well.
I also remember RWR.  He never compromised his principles, and he never moved left, the left moved toward him.
I&#039;m seeing the same thing happen now as I did in 1966 and 1994.  The overreaching of the democrats in control of D.C., and the reaction of the voters.
We will see.
As for Palin, I have never seen a person that supposedly has no chance, create as much fear in her political opponents, as she.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All that is fine and well.<br />
I also remember RWR.  He never compromised his principles, and he never moved left, the left moved toward him.<br />
I&#8217;m seeing the same thing happen now as I did in 1966 and 1994.  The overreaching of the democrats in control of D.C., and the reaction of the voters.<br />
We will see.<br />
As for Palin, I have never seen a person that supposedly has no chance, create as much fear in her political opponents, as she.</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin Parker</title>
		<link>http://urbangrounds.com/2008/07/blacks-vote-donk/#comment-153875</link>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Parker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It doesn&#039;t matter whether or not it makes sense.  What matters is whether or not people vote for you.  It&#039;s politics.  It&#039;s a game.

   I am a bleeding-heart Democrat who wants a strong and viable Republican opposition.  But what I see right now scares me.  The Democrats control the White House, both houses of Congress, and have a filibuster-proof Senate majority to boot.  Talk about a hat trick.

   This is how badly the GOP got thumped in &#039;08.  I&#039;ve been reading through the posts, and that&#039;s what we keep trying to tell you.  Ideology is fine.  But it&#039;s also about perception.

   Bring back the party of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (whom I admire, aside from his inexplicable mistake).  George Herbert and Junior won&#039;t cut it.  McCain may have made a fine President, but he lost on Bush&#039;s coattails more than anything.

  But wait! McCain wasn&#039;t conservative enough! Some Republicans think that&#039;s why he lost, but that&#039;s ludicrous.  McCain hung with Obama for a long time.  The bad timing on the recession did him in.

   And don&#039;t think for a minute that Sarah Palin can win anything.

   Political parties are like individuals--they fight to survive.  They fight over votes.  And the numbers I displayed in my previous post should frighten any Republican into trying to find out what these people want.  But what I see instead are conservatives preaching to the choir, while everybody else is not only outside the church but several blocks away.

   You are not even connecting with huge swaths of the population.  Your best chance of near-term success would be if Obamacare blows up all over the Dems (which it might).  But what if it doesn&#039;t?

   Politics is fickle and can change fairly quickly.  I may be eating my words someday--I get that.  But I&#039;m afraid that, for the Republicans, the failure to face the political reality of a changing demographic may be too much for ideology alone to overcome.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter whether or not it makes sense.  What matters is whether or not people vote for you.  It&#8217;s politics.  It&#8217;s a game.</p>
<p>   I am a bleeding-heart Democrat who wants a strong and viable Republican opposition.  But what I see right now scares me.  The Democrats control the White House, both houses of Congress, and have a filibuster-proof Senate majority to boot.  Talk about a hat trick.</p>
<p>   This is how badly the GOP got thumped in &#8216;08.  I&#8217;ve been reading through the posts, and that&#8217;s what we keep trying to tell you.  Ideology is fine.  But it&#8217;s also about perception.</p>
<p>   Bring back the party of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (whom I admire, aside from his inexplicable mistake).  George Herbert and Junior won&#8217;t cut it.  McCain may have made a fine President, but he lost on Bush&#8217;s coattails more than anything.</p>
<p>  But wait! McCain wasn&#8217;t conservative enough! Some Republicans think that&#8217;s why he lost, but that&#8217;s ludicrous.  McCain hung with Obama for a long time.  The bad timing on the recession did him in.</p>
<p>   And don&#8217;t think for a minute that Sarah Palin can win anything.</p>
<p>   Political parties are like individuals&#8211;they fight to survive.  They fight over votes.  And the numbers I displayed in my previous post should frighten any Republican into trying to find out what these people want.  But what I see instead are conservatives preaching to the choir, while everybody else is not only outside the church but several blocks away.</p>
<p>   You are not even connecting with huge swaths of the population.  Your best chance of near-term success would be if Obamacare blows up all over the Dems (which it might).  But what if it doesn&#8217;t?</p>
<p>   Politics is fickle and can change fairly quickly.  I may be eating my words someday&#8211;I get that.  But I&#8217;m afraid that, for the Republicans, the failure to face the political reality of a changing demographic may be too much for ideology alone to overcome.</p>
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		<title>By: No2Liberals</title>
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		<dc:creator>No2Liberals</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actually, with the voting percentages presented, it appears that those who voted in that manner are more hell bent on destruction.
As for the 95% of blacks who voted for B-HO, it is clearly racism, as they voted for his skin color, not on his poor character.
As for the Republicans convincing any minority group of anything, I can&#039;t answer, I&#039;m a conservative, and the GOP doesn&#039;t much listen to me either.  However, if you look at the overall characteristics of most minority groups, they tend to be conservative in many aspects of their lives, but vote for liberals.  It makes absolutely no sense, whatever.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, with the voting percentages presented, it appears that those who voted in that manner are more hell bent on destruction.<br />
As for the 95% of blacks who voted for B-HO, it is clearly racism, as they voted for his skin color, not on his poor character.<br />
As for the Republicans convincing any minority group of anything, I can&#8217;t answer, I&#8217;m a conservative, and the GOP doesn&#8217;t much listen to me either.  However, if you look at the overall characteristics of most minority groups, they tend to be conservative in many aspects of their lives, but vote for liberals.  It makes absolutely no sense, whatever.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://urbangrounds.com/2008/07/blacks-vote-donk/#comment-153867</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In the 2008 election, 95% of blacks voted for Obama.  Only 4% voted for McCain.

   Let me say that again:
   Obama-95%
   McCain-4%

   Or put another way:
   Democrat-95%
   Republican-4%

   Get the picture?

   No, I still don&#039;t think you wascally wepublicans get it.  Remember the girl&#039;s basketball team that got beat 100-0?

   If this was a boxing match, they&#039;d have stopped it in the first 30 seconds.

   And it&#039;s not just blacks.  Look at some other Obama supporters.  Jews 78% for Obama.  Hispanics 66%.  Asians 63%.  Catholics 54%.

   Catholics 54%?!

   You mean 54% of anti-abortion Catholics voted for Obama?

   How can the Republicans convince the blacks that they are the anti-racist party when they can&#039;t even convince the Catholics that they are the party of Christian morality?

   The Republicans seem hell-bent on political self-destruction.  It will be fascinating to watch this train wreck unfold.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the 2008 election, 95% of blacks voted for Obama.  Only 4% voted for McCain.</p>
<p>   Let me say that again:<br />
   Obama-95%<br />
   McCain-4%</p>
<p>   Or put another way:<br />
   Democrat-95%<br />
   Republican-4%</p>
<p>   Get the picture?</p>
<p>   No, I still don&#8217;t think you wascally wepublicans get it.  Remember the girl&#8217;s basketball team that got beat 100-0?</p>
<p>   If this was a boxing match, they&#8217;d have stopped it in the first 30 seconds.</p>
<p>   And it&#8217;s not just blacks.  Look at some other Obama supporters.  Jews 78% for Obama.  Hispanics 66%.  Asians 63%.  Catholics 54%.</p>
<p>   Catholics 54%?!</p>
<p>   You mean 54% of anti-abortion Catholics voted for Obama?</p>
<p>   How can the Republicans convince the blacks that they are the anti-racist party when they can&#8217;t even convince the Catholics that they are the party of Christian morality?</p>
<p>   The Republicans seem hell-bent on political self-destruction.  It will be fascinating to watch this train wreck unfold.</p>
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		<title>By: No2Liberals</title>
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		<dc:creator>No2Liberals</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Now the republicans are the only proponents of racism and bigotry &lt;/blockquote&gt;

BS.
You don&#039;t &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrER_MX5_ug&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pay attention&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Now the republicans are the only proponents of racism and bigotry </p></blockquote>
<p>BS.<br />
You don&#8217;t <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrER_MX5_ug" rel="nofollow">pay attention</a>.</p>
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