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Originally Posted by Truthseeker
Yeah, I wonder how the so called Christians who voted for him can explain this. Especially the black churches who went crazy for him
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TS... To me, a lot of it comes down to this:
The GOP has a serious race problem. For a variety of reasons, many if not most African Americans see the GOP as either outright racist or insensitive to many of the issues that the black community cares about.
Thus the Republican party has lost the black vote, at least for the foreseeable future, and probably forever. And they're losing the Hispanic vote too. And as the the percentage of whites in the US population continues to decrease over time, the GOP will find it harder to win national elections as minority groups grow in number and thus voter clout at the polls.
People may debate the accuracy of the existing stereotype, but it is what it is... The stereotype that is firmly established in many minds is that the Democrats care about the issues that concern racial minorities, and women, and the Republicans are mostly a white men's party.
I've heard person simply put it this way:
"The Republicans care so much about the unborn, but they dont care as much about those who are already born, especially if you're not rich and/or white".
With this being a widespread perception out there, the GOP needs to either change it's badly damaged image, or it will become less and less relevant in future national elections. Bottom line is, even many blacks and other minorities
who are personally anti-abortion will still vote Democrat consistently because there are other [social] issues to them that are more prominent in their minds than abortion.
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