Black Republicans are running with a confidence

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Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.

The House has not had a black Republican since 2003, when J. C. Watts of Oklahoma left after eight years.

But now black Republicans are running across the country — from a largely white swath of beach communities in Florida to the suburbs of Phoenix, where an African-American candidate has raised more money than all but two of his nine (white) Republican competitors in the primary.

Party officials and the candidates themselves acknowledge that they still have uphill fights in both the primaries and the general elections, but they say that black Republicans are running with a confidence they have never had before. They credit the marriage of two factors: dissatisfaction with the Obama administration, and the proof, as provided by Mr. Obama, that blacks can get elected.

“I ran in 2008 and raised half a million dollars, and the state party didn’t support me and the national party didn’t support me,” said Allen West, who is running for Congress in Florida and is one of roughly five black candidates the party believes could win. “But we came back and we’re running and things are looking great.”
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Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races - NYTimes.com

Of things to come this November.

It's coming......
 
I'm dare that most of them won't win. :lol:

They will not win the AL 7th congressional district, anyway.
 
I really dont' care if the running candidates are white, black, red, orange or speckled....as long as they're honest and hard working and live up to their campaign promises....God forbid we have another Black Mayor such as Marion Barry (N.Y.)....
 
Foxrac said:
I'm dare that most of them won't win. :lol:

They will not win the AL 7th congressional district, anyway.
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That's what you said about Scott Brown not winning the Senate seat in Massachusetts.
 
Quoting and talking to yourself? :lol:
 
I agree, November will be interesting. I wonder how much influence Azizona will have in swinging votes.
 
No. Not in every thread. Nice exaggeration. This simply shows people that anybody can run as a Conservative or Republican and doesn't matter the skin color or ethnicity. Just like Jindal ran successfully for Governor of Louisanna. Or the fact that Djou is taking the lead in Hawaii in one district. Or the fact that this year all of a sudden you have a surge of black people running for Repubican seats. The question is why?

Why the remark? Are you obsessed in keeping score or what? Do you actually believe blacks or people of other ethnic races cannot run as a Republican? Enlighten me.
 
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No. Not in every thread. Nice exaggeration. This simply shows people that anybody can run as a Conservative or Republican and doesn't matter the skin color or ethnicity. Just like Jindal ran successfully for Governor of Louisanna. Or the fact that Djou is taking the lead in Hawaii in one district. Or the fact that this year all of a sudden you have a surge of black people running for Repubican seats. The question is why?

Why the remark? Are you obsessed in keeping score or what? Do you actually believe blacks or people of other ethnic races cannot run as a Republican? Enlighten me.
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huh? why the questions like this? like all of us said - black white yellow tan. all same to us. this existed before Obama.

The question is why?
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well - since you created this thread.... sounds like you know a thing or two so what's the answer?
 
It's because many Liberals/Democrats believe in the myth that there is no such thing as a black Republican, otherwise they'd be called a "sellout." Nice. Or for that matter any ethnicity outside the lily white skin can a person run as a Republican. That's been changing over the years despite the fact that black Americans have a long history in the Republican party despite rumors to what many people believe. They've been called "sellouts," "Uncle Toms," "slave," etc... all those derogatory underpinning in the effort to quash their conservative beliefs and how they share the same concerns on issues that affect us today (and into the future).

Maybe....just maybe for once people will read this article. But I doubt some of you people will. Is it because some of ya'll are still clinging to that myth? I hope not.

http://blackchristiannews.com/news/...e-tea-party-supporters-are-catching-hell.html
 
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