A Sign of Desparation?
That’s what Jack Kelly thinks is behind the disparaging comments by Democrats against Republicans. In his column in Jewish World Review, Mr. Kelly even characterizes Democrats’ actions as “frantic”.
Former Pittsburgh Steeler star Lynn Swann is a prohibitive favorite to win the Republican nomination for governor in Pennsylvania, as is Ken Blackwell in Ohio. Lt. Gov. Michael Steele has locked up the GOP senate nomination in Maryland. If some of these outstanding black candidates win (all are even in current polls), it could spark a shift among blacks to the GOP. The shift need not be large to be decisive. If just one black in six votes Republican, it’s hard to see how Democrats can win a national election. Now imagine what might happen if Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is the GOP candidate for president in 2008.
Frantic Democrats are playing the race card to keep their most loyal voting bloc on the plantation, but it’s not the trump it used to be.
If Swann, Steele and Blackwell get 20% of the black vote this November, they’ll each win. PERIOD. A Democrat living in Pennsylvania, Maryland or Ohio who doesn’t get almost 90% of the black vote is in big trouble.
Democratic candidates might not act it in public but I’ll guarantee that they’re worried when they get their polling reports.
After all, their strongest instinct is the ‘re-election instinct’.
Cross-post at LetFreedomRing