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| "Black Voices for Trump": Campaign hopes to replicate FDR's 1936 Success in Reaching Out to Black Voters |
| 2019-11-29 |
| [Real Clear Politics] Last week the presidential campaign of Donald Trump announced a six-figure ad buy across black radio stations and in black newspapers. The newspaper campaign targeted 11 major markets in key states across the nation, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Virginia — all states that the Trump team believes will be in play in 2020. The radio ads were run in the same 11 urban markets. Under their theme of “Black Voices for Trump,” it is clear that the Trump campaign is emulating what the Franklin D. Roosevelt campaign did in 1936. Just as Roosevelt overwhelmingly lost the black vote in 1932, doing worse than Al Smith in 1928, Trump lost the black vote in 2016. But, again like Roosevelt in 1932, Trump did reach out to the black electorate in 2016. Both FDR in ’32 and Trump in ’16 had some limited but encouraging success in winning over these voters: Roosevelt in New York where he had been governor, and Trump in Pennsylvania where his outreach helped provide his margin of victory in that key state. The groundwork laid in 1932 was crucial to FDR’s success with black voters in 1936. In fact, in that first election, a wealthy oilman and key supporter of the Democrat, Frank Benedum, “saw the conversion of the black vote as a potential means of swinging Pennsylvania into the Roosevelt column,” Nancy J. Weiss wrote in “Farewell to the Party of Lincoln.” Benedum knew the key was longtime Republican supporter Robert L. Vann, editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the biggest and most influential black newspapers in America. By 1932 Vann was fed up with the GOP. In his view, all the Republicans seemingly cared about was black votes, not the goals and aspirations of black Americans. |
| Posted by:Lex |
| #7 Excellent proposal, Besoeker. Follow up with request that all college grads (ideally high school grads) pass a course using his ‘Basic Economics’ as the textbook. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2019-11-29 10:21 |
| #6 Demoncrats have been worse for blacks than any other institution, including slavery, in US history. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2019-11-29 09:07 |
| #5 Take a daylight AMTRAK journey from Manassas, VA to Atlanta, GA and have a look at the havoc wrought on local industries and wage earners by our elected officials in Washington. The route will take you through what once was the working side of towns and villages. It didn't happen overnight, nor was it the doing of one particular political party. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-11-29 08:48 |
| #4 Then bring back the exported light and medium industry that provided the backbone of the economy for the less educated urban population. What replaced it, welfare and drugs, locked in the black vote for Democrats. |
| Posted by: Unaitle Panda6599 2019-11-29 08:39 |
| #3 Did you have a job four years ago? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-11-29 08:37 |
| #2 Black people being free to decide for themselves. A democrat nightmare... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-11-29 04:40 |
#1  Perhaps some high-level WH recognition for Thomas Sowell ?Thomas Sowell is an American economist and social theorist who is currently a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Sowell was born in North Carolina, but grew up in Harlem, New York. He dropped out of Stuyvesant High School and served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. Wikipedia |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-11-29 02:46 |