Alito Causes Strategy-Shift for Blacks

[ProSense]

Message to Lynn "Democrats take blacks for granted" Swann: Republicans don't care about civil rights.

Alito Causes Strategy-Shift for Blacks

By Ron Walters, NNPA Columnist
February 6, 2006


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At this moment in history, it appears that the Supreme Court will not be as favorable to Black interests as it has in the past. In fact, its new conservative activists may legislate in a manner that changes the framework of civil and human rights substantially, stopping in its tracks the progress made and, in fact, making laws that support a version of White upper-class privilege. In that event, the major opportunities for corrective action lay in the Congress and the White House, both of which are subject to electoral participation.

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The seeds of discontent are obviously the war in Iraq that is going badly, but other recent issues have contributed, such as: the deep cuts in the social budget featuring a $13 billion whack in Pell Grants, lobbying scandals that have caught up several high-profile Republican leaders and now the revelation that the White House has been conducting an illegal, secret program that has spied on the American people. So bad is it, that in Texas a recently released poll by the University of Houston shows that Rep. Tom Delay, the vaunted sheriff of the Republican party who is in the process of losing his position as House Whip over his ethics scandal, has lost 50% of the political support in his district since 2004. This makes him vulnerable to a challenge by Democrats.

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A big turnout by Blacks in statewide elections where their population is significant could affect the results on my priority list, where there are both Senate and gubernatorial races such states as: Florida, Maryland, New York, and Texas. Then, there are Senate elections alone in Mississippi and New Jersey, and races for governor alone in Alabama, California, Michigan, Georgia, Illinois, and South Carolina.

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So, Democrats need a shift of six seats. But in the House of Representatives, since there are 232 Republicans to 202 Democrats (one Democrat-leaning Independent) there needs to be a shift of at least 16 seats in the House elections to give Democrats control. This is a much tougher task due, as suggested, to the fact that the number of competitive congressional districts has shrunk in the past two decades. Then, there are 28 Republican Governors and 22 Democrats and theatre needs to be a shift of seven for Democrats to gain control of most of the state houses. This is vital, since much of the policy initiative at the local level comes from state policy direction and resources.

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http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20060206b

[LiberalFighter]

1. If that happens I wonder odds for riots

[McCamy Taylor]

2. In Ohio and Florida they responded by illegal disenrollment of

African-American voters. The new thing is voter IDs which will be applied in a discriminatory manner. There are not enough poll watchers in the country to protect the rights of all the African-American voters that the RNC plans to disenfranchise this fall. We need to call in the UN.

[ProSense]

3. Get out the black vote (and count each), take back the Congress n/t