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Home Front: Politix

Tim Scott rolls to historic S.C. landslide

2014-11-05

[POSTANDCOURIER] Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott has easily defended his seat in Tuesday's election as the GOP predicts he'll be the single biggest vote-getter in a contested race in the state.

The Associated Press called the race at 7:04 p.m., four minutes after the polls closed.

Party leaders are pointing to the historic nature of the 2014 election. Scott, of Hanahan, would become the first black candidate elected to statewide office here since Reconstruction, and he would be the first black member of the Senate elected from South Carolina.

Nationally, Scott is just the fifth African-American elected to the U.S. Senate in the nation's history.

He faces Democrat Joyce Dickerson and American Party candidate Jill Bossi.

The race is the first of several today in which Republicans are heavily favored in statewide duels.

Posted by:Fred

#10 The Pubs need to go into the black communities when campaigning and not write them off a priori. No promises of free phones, welfare, give-ways, please. Same opportunities for everyone with hard work.

That's just unrealistic. The only surefire way to get more of the black vote is to join the Democratic bandwagon on the welfare state and racial quotas. To get close to 50% of the black vote, the GOP would also have to become anti-gun and soft on crime. Assuming the GOP matched the Dems on the preceding issues, they could probably command a majority of the black by becoming tough on immigration (legal and illegal). However, with the exception of immigration, any GOP movement on the other issues would cause the GOP base to stay home on election day, thereby wiping out any gains from an increased black vote, to say nothing of the pointlessness of ditching your bedrock principles to gain election victories.

Posted by: Zhang Fei 2014-11-05 20:54

#9 I agree with DJK, and the Republicans should spend the next 2 years courtin the African American Community to really end that 90% vote.

Not gonna work. The welfare state and racial quotas are a big help to the black community. There's nothing there keeping a highly-motivated and able black person from advancing. The reality is that a huge chunk of middle and upper income blacks depends on racial quotas (via government and large private employer jobs) to remain where they are. Why would they screw themselves by supporting candidates who favor an end to those quotas?

Posted by: Zhang Fei 2014-11-05 20:36

#8 A black republican who talks sense immediately destroys this strategy. Democrat's need 90% of the black vote to win.

Blacks think of black conservatives as Uncle Tom sellouts, because they oppose racial quotas and the welfare state. I don't think the 9:1 ratio is in any danger. There is a tiny possibility that having a black conservative in the electoral lineup might depress black turnout, at least for that race - among those who don't want to vote against a brother or a sister.

Posted by: Zhang Fei 2014-11-05 20:29

#7 The Pubs need to go into the black communities when campaigning and not write them off a priori. No promises of free phones, welfare, give-ways, please. Same opportunities for everyone with hard work.

Posted by: JohnQC 2014-11-05 16:32

#6 I agree with DJK, and the Republicans should spend the next 2 years courtin the African American Community to really end that 90% vote.

Remind them of (a) Lincoln was a Republican (b) Bull Conner was a democrat (c) Major cities are run by Democrats and tend to getting worse and worse under Democrat policies.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-11-05 14:57

#5 The Democrat's strategy has to build a coalition of Blacks, Hispanics, young people, and single women, who will vote for them automatically. A black republican who talks sense immediately destroys this strategy. Democrat's need 90% of the black vote to win.

Posted by: djk 2014-11-05 13:59

#4 What Besoeker said!

Posted by: Barbara 2014-11-05 10:28

#3 The Donks seem to be particularly hard on conservative blacks. They tend to try to try to demonize them more than other conservatives for some reason. I suppose black conservatives are more of a threat to the Donk narrative which they package and try to sell.

Posted by: JohnQC 2014-11-05 09:57

#2 Interesting point: Mr. Scott would have won the races as a Pub in North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi. In Louisiana he'd have won outright over Mary.

Posted by: Steve White 2014-11-05 08:39

The 'old South' has a problem with conservative, black politicians like Tim Scott. We cannot find enough of them !

Posted by: Besoeker 2014-11-05 06:57

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