I wrote down several voting blocs that definitely WON'T be voting for Carson in the general. Democratic strategists are going to have a field day when it comes to making campaign ads against Carson. I see this situation being very similar to what Senator McCaskille did in that she actually helped the most Right Wing candidate, Todd Akin win in the primary, so she could win in the general, and she did, by over 15 points in a state as red and consistently Republican in choosing President as Missouri.
"He don't stand a snowballs chance in hell of winning 270 electoral college vote. Bear in mind that Republicans have won the popular vote in this country only one time in the last 6 Presidential elections going back to 1992.
"The report, called the "Growth and Opportunity Project," lays out an extensive plan the RNC believes will lead the party to victory with an extensive outreach to women, African-American, Asian, Hispanic and gay voters."
Republicans this election cycle has completely ignored this plan to win the election. And Ben Carson and Donald Trump are easily your most offensive candidates to the general populace, although Huckabee and Santorum should get an honorable mention.
Let's go over which voting blocs Ben Carson WON'T be winning over. First it should be known that while he hasn't said anything as outright offensive and racist about Latino's as Donald Trump, his outreach program to them will probably fail so long as he's a Republican and voiced his disapproval of several other groups of voters.
Gays. He said being gay is a choice, because in an environment with total lack of females, a prison, men have gay sex. Ok, gays certainly won't agree with that statement, so he's pretty much ditched the gay vote. I don't even think the Log Cabin Republicans plan on voting for a Republican this time around for that matter due to how much negative messages they've got from party members and leadership for the mere fact that they're conservative on everything except that they're gay.
Jews. He said Jews could have prevented the Holocaust if they armed themselves with small arms. While historically speaking this is factually inaccurate since I have studied WWII in Europe and the Holocaust extensively, even the Anti-Defamation League flat out denies this statement, at best he might win over some Jewish voters who are single issue voters on Israel and Israel alone, who probably would have voted for Republicans anyways regardless of any comments he made regarding the Holocaust. Bringing up the Holocaust to Jew voters with an election ahead is extremely offensive, and incredibly tactless for that matter. Perhaps he might pick up a handful of gun voters who like that idea for a Pro-Gun narrative, but they were all going to vote for Republicans anyways so not a big win.
Blacks. He might win a few Black votes for the mere fact he's black and that is their only deciding factor, but he has attacked their intelligence which drives away not just Blacks, but most any voting blocs prior to an election. The narrative among Conservatives is that Blacks are still stuck on a "Liberal PLantation" if they vote for Democrats, invoking images of slavery and using the worst humanitarian crisis in this country's history and rivals the Holocaust in terms of how poorly our Blacks were treated as an attempt to shame Blacks into voting for Republicans. Again, extremely offensive, and incredibly tactless when trying to win over voters. Ben Carson supports this narrative that Blacks who don't vote Republican, which is about 95% of Black voters, are still stuck in slavery.
“Because they put you in a little category, a box: ‘You have to think this way, how could you dare come off the plantation?’”
No one says to Jews, that they're still stuck in Auschwitz if they vote for the Democrats in an election. Because it's so incredibly offensive, it's a strategy if you were trying to LOSE votes.
Young and Single Women. He has also managed to compare women who get abortions to women who are slave owners. This again is an extremely offensive statement to women. He wants to entirely ban abortion, I'm not sure he even leaves the door open for when women will die if they do not receive one. This is a great policy stance for people who can't bear children, but most of those people would have voted Republican anyways, so at best he'd pick up a handful of voters. 33% of US women will have an abortion by age 45, and most Americans do NOT think Roe v. Wade should be overturned.
Young and middle aged voters in general he won't win over given that he's already stated that he actually wants to INTENSIFY the colossal failure known as the War on Drugs.
"Glenn Beck: Do you continue the War on Drugs?Ben Carson: Absolutely.Beck: You do?Carson: I intensify it."
Like I said, Carson doesn't stand a snowballs chance in hell of winning in the general. He has way too many unpopular policy stances. He can win a Primary with an extremely far right wing base, he can't win in a general and he certainly won't win 270 electoral college votes which is what really decides our Presidential elections. Sorry to burst your bubble.
It's as if he took the 2012 RNC Autopsy and then decided to drive even MORE voting blocs away from the Republicans." - JimmyS1985 (sirscrotum on youtube)
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