African-American voters now have two MORE reasons to vote Dem in 2016, with an assist from the GOP ::posted Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:30:05 +0000:: feeds.dailykos/~r/dailykos/index/~3/3xcUnbKUP-o/-African-American-voters-now-have-two-MORE-reasons-to-vote-Dem-in-2016-with-an-assist-from-the-GOP rss@dailykos (Steve Singiser) The GOP mightve ensured that fewer African-American voters stay home in 2016. In what is ordinarily an incredibly quiet time for politics in America, we have been treated in the past couple of days to a pair of enormous political firestorms. And, as those two stories have begun to play themselves out, the Republican Party (yet again!) might be doing an enormous favor to the Democratic Party. A quiet, yet persistent, concern of many Democrats has been a lingering question about whether the historically large turnout among minority groups in 2008 and 2012 was a sign of renewed political interest, or merely reflective of having Barack Obama atop the ticket. Therefore, there has been considerable debate about whether turnout among nonwhite groups in general, and African-Americans in particular, would fade in 2016 the way it did, to some extent, in both 2010 and 2014. That fear might have been quelled, at least somewhat, by how the GOP has handled those two overarching news stories that have captured the political conversation as 2014 closes and 2015 begins. Head with me past the jump to see why the GOP might have, yet again, been their own worst political enemy over the past few days. [Forwarded by the MyLeftBlogosphere news engine. Link to original post below:]
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