has bush lost the black vote for future republicans?

Answer 1

I personally am a registered Republican in the State of NY. However, I have not yet voted Republican since John Mccain didn't end up as a candidate - I woulda voted for him over Kerry.

You cannot generalize all Black people based upon the answers you see on Yahoo answers. Many of them think differently, vote Republican for their own reasons, etc.

I persoanlly believe that after Black people saw the digression of America after the CLINTON ERA....
such as the devastation of Katrina, the IRaq War, the skyrocketing National debt, the inflation of housing prices, the skyrocketing of gas prices, 9/11 and Bush's poor responce, etc,etc,etc...

....I must believe that most intelligent Black people who vote with a definate intention will most likely not vote Republican.

Frankly, I don't believe that most White people in America will vote Republican either. Keep in mind that many Democratic states such as Washington, Oregon , Maine etc are predominately White and also Democratic.

After seeing how badly Iraq has gone and seeing how poorly the government has been performing, I think the Republicans have lost just as many, if not more, votes of White Americans.

Keep in mind however that HISPANICS in America have major voting ability too. After seeing how the Government has treated Mexicans and illegal immigrants, or how the Government has treated Cuban Americans (not allowing them to send certain sums of money to Cuba for their families), I think the Hispanic vote will be just as hard to get by the Republicans as the Black vote.

Answer 2

I spied this Q awhile ago and lost it due to storm power outage, but had to find it again.

Not to offend anyone, or you, and in using a possible ethnic cliche, I'm MIXED; not only ethnically, culturally and specifically, but I have friends who are Republican, African American, and perhaps fit both categories.

I realize GW slurs will likely have negative results here, but I've got some thoughts.

I think it's less important,,,any party affillation. or origin one has or is born into, than it has to do with the short history of this particular man.

This is, after all, the most important "JOB"/Position, in this country,,,perhaps even in the free world? It isn't like "I'm just out of school, and looking for placement in an ON THE JOB TRAINING position.... Sigh.

I rarely vote PARTY. I do however research candidates back grounds, qualifications, etc. I'm opposed to Dynasties, and don't follow with a PRESIDENT being elected strictly by popular vote,,, especially since in the USA the voters are in a major minority,,, with regard to how many actually do. Am I wrong sometimes? Certainly!

I also make a concsious effort to never vote an incumbent. It has little to do with what they are, as much as it has to do with that job as a 4 year placement is hard enough even for the best. GW will NOT be recorded historically, in the top 10.

Sadly, we have him for another 18 months or so, and I guess I can only cower and pray now, that the species lasts that long to vote another into office. I'd hope, for no other reason that in MAKING a change, we try a different politic.

World leaders, no matter who, are not GOD, although it's easy to see how a GOD complex can develop.

I can only hope, that next time, no matter ethnicity, we increase the power of the VOTE, and do something that offers change. If, in the next 4 year term, that elected leader isn't doing the job that the majority who voted him in, expected, then hopefully THEY will alter their vote.

For all others, who complain, or suffer, but didn't vote last time,,, I can only hope they do in 08.

Rev. Steven

Answer 3

I don't know. He is not in the habit of pandering for it, though he has made some efforts to show that he is trying to do things he believes will help black people.

If anything, I think it is the actions of the Democrat party that is more likely to give votes to the Republicans. The Democrats have been making empty promises for so long now, that a lot of people are starting to notice, and get annoyed about the Democrats taking the black vote for granted. And as more black politicians achieve success in the Republican party, that complacency will become more of an indictment against them.

I think it would be foolish for black people to all suddenly switch allegiance, though ! That would give the Republicans the idea that they could act like the Democrats. Make the politicians earn those votes, preferably by doing something sensible to help people instead of empty promises of quick, easy fixes that never materialize !

Answer 4

He never really had it -- the Democrats have had a very firm grip on the black vote since the New Deal, which helped poor blacks just as much or more than whites. It also hurt a lot that the modern Republican Party has its roots in Barry Goldwater's opposition of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (after which the Democratic party slowly started to lose traction in the South).

I don't think Bush has done much damage personally, though -- he has courted the religious right, and there are a lot of very religious black people, so he actually increased his percentage of black votes by a couple of percent after his first term.

Answer 5

He hasn't helped. Republican Party was the party that freed the slaves yet by the end of the Civil War, they turned their backs on them and allowed Southern Democrats (Dixiecrats) to subjugate the Black population to the point where slavery would have been better in many cases. When the Democratic party picked up the the flag of Civil Rights starting in the 1940s, Southern Dixiecrats started to balk. When the Civil Rights act of 1964 was signed, almost all of the Dixiecrats bailed out of the Democratic Party and found a new home where their prejudices were more likely to be represented, the Republican Party.

Answer 6

Why is that ? This is what the republicans have done for blacks.
The Republican party was founded to eliminate slavery, and our first Republican President was Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator.

It was the Republican Party that led the effort to pass the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments.

We spearheaded the Homestead Act of 1862 and the Morrill Land Grant College Act, which recognized that education and opportunity and property ownership were all essential to the American Dream.

It was a Republican president, Teddy Roosevelt, who invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House, shocking official Washington at the time.

It was another Republican president, Dwight David Eisenhower, who sent the 101st airborne to integrate a school in Little Rock, while a Democratic governor blocked the schoolhouse door.

It was the partnership and hard work of Clarence Mitchell, lobbyist for the NAACP and Republican Senator Everett Dirksen that led to higher percentage of Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate voting for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Democrats.

And it is George W. Bush, a Republican president, who has appointed more minorities to top positions than any president in American history; who has tripled the funds we provide to relieve AIDS in Africa; and who has an agenda to spread equal opportunity in America and freedom around the world, building on the legal equality and Civil Rights Legacy that everyone in this room fought for.

President Bush signed the most comprehensive education reform in 40 years, guaranteeing the equal opportunity of high standards and accountability to every child.

He increased funding in education more in his first four years than Bill Clinton did in his entire eight-year term.

Answer 7

Absolutely - Since the 2000 elections and the evidence found of black voters purged to vote it would seem logical that the Republican party has been stained in this respect. A real shame considering that republicans historically did alot to push for voting rights for blacks in the south. As a republican myself I can't see how my party has helped black americans recently. I also don't see anyone in my pary that is worth running as a candidate in the next election so chances are I will vote for the democratic candidate (depending on who that is).

Answer 8

Its an interesting question....I think there may be a black vote backlash against the democrats this time.

I've talked to a few of my black friends here in Detroit and they are concerned with a lot of the Democrats spouting amnesty for the illegal aliens that abound here in Detroit. The Hispanics are quickly becoming the new "minority" and are taking a lot of the tax dollars that used to be earmarked for poor black people.

I think the Republican and Conservative tough stand on illegals is attracting a lot of black voters to the Republican cause.

Answer 9

The republicans lost the black vote decades ago. As long as the Democrat party continues to treat blacks as being on the plantation supplying their every needs with social programs they'll vote democrat. Republicans expect every American ( including blacks) to stand on their own two feet. THOSE EVIL REPUBLICANS

Answer 10

There's a Black vote?