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Romney Pays for his Disrespect of African Americans By Losing 99% of the Vote in Some Communities
The booing of Mitt Romney’s treatment of the president at the NAACP convention was not a one time thing. Many African Americans displayed their disapproval of Romney giving 99% of the vote to Obama in some communities.
According to philly.com, “In a city where President Obama received more than 85 percent of the votes, in some places he received almost every one. In 13 Philadelphia wards, Obama received 99 percent of the vote or more…Nor was Philadelphia the only place in the region with such high numbers for Obama. Five Delaware County towns topped 90 percent, led by Yeadon at 96.3. Following were Chester City (94.8), Darby Borough (93.5), Chester Township (92.3), and Colwyn (90.3).”
This backlash against Romney and the GOP occurred for several reasons. First, support for this president among African-Americans along with other members of the Obama coalition has never wavered. Through good and bad, African-Americans, Latinos, and young voters have all given President Obama higher approval ratings than he has averaged with the rest of the country.
Obama’s maintained high level of support is what made Mitt Romney’s behavior so curious. Romney went beyond not trying to court these voters. The Republican nominee appeared hell bent on antagonizing them. From his self-deportation immigration position to an education plan that boiled down to borrow the money from mom and dad to go to college, Romney not only lost the support of these voters. He offended them.
However, it was the African American community that he appeared to purposefully take aim at. In hindsight, it seems that Mitt Romney addressed the NAACP convention with the intention of creating a photo-op, but not the normal kind of photo-op. Romney was looking to be booed. Romney appears to have attempted to use the NAACP convention as a prop in his endless appeal to white voters. It turns out that this courting of white voters through race baiting was based on the Romney campaign’s inaccurate premise that minorities would not show up to vote in 2012. Romney also targeted African Americans with his lie filled ad accusing President Obama of ending welfare to work.
Members of the Obama coalition saw a candidate that antagonized them, didn’t care about them, and who was offering a set of policies that would harm them.
Instead of staying home, these voters marched to the polls to support their president. Minority turnout was up 2 points over 2008, and 5 points over 2010. Young people also didn’t stay home. The youth vote was up 12 points over 2008, and 18 points over 2010.
A lot of the media has focused on Romney’s attempted “whites only” path to victory, but it was a combination of voter devotion to the president, and Romney’s disrespect of the growing segments of the electorate that really cost him this election.
Losing 99% of the vote isn’t a rejection. It’s a banishment.
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Johnee
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
It was an F-ed up strategy that backfired. Romney purposely antagonized black Americans in order to fire up and galvanize his far right, racist base. Basically Romney was saying: “See? I stood up to all those n***** deadbeats that want to mooch off the system”.
Biiiig mistake.
Sally
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
And more whites are on welfare than blacks anyway. But who needs research when you have the Koch and Adelson billions at your disposal? Who cares about facts..they told us that early on. Who cares that Romney had a new position on everything every day? Who cares that he ran ads full of lies?
America cares Mitt! And if the GOP decides to run more liars in 2016, they will lose again. Honesty matters.
Marie
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 2:57 pm
Romney ran his campaign on the “47%” who wouldn’t vote for him anyway and he wasn’t interested in them. He and his team thought he had enough white voters and with the SuperPac money they were going to buy this election. I would still like to see the SuperPac money banned, but this election did prove that money can’t buy you happiness or the White House.
Reynardine
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Actually, it was clear from the start that this was what Mitt was doing. He was showing the *white* 47%ers that he was getting tough on black (the white ones presumed) 47%ers. You know, that he didn’t mean the *white* guys. But he wound up like the neighborhood gossip who runs back and forth setting everyone else against each other…and then they compare notes.
bambam1911
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
As long as you feel that you are superior, and entitled. You will always under value, marginilize, and under estimate your opponent….
Middle Molly
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 4:32 pm
The “takers” vs. the “makers” stuff was infuriating. The racial slurs tossed at the Prez and the First Lady and even occasionally at their daughters was repulsive and disgusting.
“A Decent and Good President…
The right wing pundits are missing the fact that MOST Americans are really and truly angry that a decent and good President has been relentlessly attacked, demonized, and racially profiled by a disgusting subset of the population.”
bothpartiesarenotthesame....
linda
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 5:57 pm
mitt came off to arrogant,and saying 47% wasn’t worth worrying about was a shot in the foot,and trump did more harm than good,even he and mitt wasn’t the tightest of buddy’s he needed donald’s money and support to try and get his 51% and the billionare ceo that tried to intimidate his employees didn’t help,and certainly all these papers and document they wanted shown,yet mitt didn’t show the people anything,his view of women rights hurt him also.now with that being said,why is donald trump so up tight about our president,it’s as if he has a personal grudge against the president,yet president OBAMA won fair and square.didn’t have to try and slander mitt he did that all by himself.
Gary Vaughn
Nov. 9th, 2012 at 1:29 am
You can hate some of the people some of the time, but you can’t hate anything not white ever, and expect o be president.
Anne
Nov. 9th, 2012 at 7:41 pm
As an African-American woman, I have often chafed at the ignorant, erroneous remark that I and others have voted for the president just because he is black. Apparently, it escapes them that we vote against fellow blacks like Herman Cain and Allen West who are rightwing nutjobs that happen to be black. I suspect that the folks who make this claim are projecting their own bigotry on to us, and that they voted AGAINST him because he’s black. Romney actually had the gall to tell the people at NAACP that they should vote for the other guy if they want free stuff. The irony is that the very folks he insulted at that meeting are accomplished in their own right. But of course, the fact that we come from all walks of life like everyone else is lost on them. As it turned out, we were far from being the only group that the GOP antagonized. Women, religious minorities, Latinos, unionized workers, government employees, and the poor were also on the receiving end of their disrespect, and along with their outdated ideology, it cost them.
Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 9th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Free stuff is a common theme not exclusive to Black people. O’Leily is using it, Limbaugh and Coulter are using it to denote the 52% that voted for Obama. That includes a huge swath of white people as well.
Anne
Nov. 9th, 2012 at 9:29 pm
I realize that, but there is no altering the fact that the GOP uses a lot of code words to label blacks as “lazy” and “takers.” Remember Rick Santorum’s remarks about the “blah people” and Newt Gingrich calling President Obama the “food stamp president?” Those are insults that we recognize when we hear them. I’m not saying that such insults aren’t directed at others, but that we are attuned to the racist connotations of certain ones.
Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 9th, 2012 at 9:46 pm
I fully agree that most of the GOP is made up of bigots. Was not my intention to try and cover that fact that they look at any minority with disdain. They are however spreading it to everyone that voted Dem
Sir Gwaine AntiRacism
Nov. 9th, 2012 at 10:33 pm
hmhm. This article here on politicsusa is written by a person called “Jason Easley”. Like in the EASLY Brothers haha ISLEY I know I know. I’d rather have been with Mitt…. oh yea. Obama doesn’t care too much about Israel or Jews. And that is, what ALL of america REFUSES to HEAR. I don’t think it’s abnormal that most Fox watchers were disappointed. While I don’t share any racist attitudes, but only strictly anti-racist ones, I don’t either share this actual ANTI-WHITE racism, and this INFILTRATION of ACTUALLY OUR WORLD (“… growing segments of the electorate…” aha) by OTHER people. YES, MINORITIES can GROW into MAJORITIES. I think Whites under Blacks would not be better off than Blacks under Whites, actually. Blacks themselves don’t want equality, but superiority. They too are greedy. You all are total idiots, all you westerners, and all people. idiots. morons. to me. !
Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 9th, 2012 at 10:48 pm
I had no idea they had Fox News in Switzerland