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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharles Barkley NAILS Why Black Voter Turnout Is So Important
This is why the GOP spends so much time and effort suppressing the black and latino voter blocks. Charles Barkley correctly identifies the third element the Democratic politicians need to help is poor white people. Emphasis is on the word poor!
OnDoutside
(19,905 posts)Communities, and hammered home now, that even in the most Red state, if you gotv, you have a chance. If you stay home, you have no chance.
It's a great advertisement.
UCmeNdc
(9,589 posts)The Democratic Party has to be proactive and protect their ability and rights to vote.
OnDoutside
(19,905 posts)stuff like that but it's the time to fight harder. Alabama showed what could be achieved with extra effort.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I know you usually don't want to be anyone's "role model"...but this week, you WERE.
ffr
(22,644 posts)tnlurker
(1,020 posts)mnmoderatedem
(3,706 posts)when hinting at a political career, many years ago. Wonder if the evolution (degredation) of the GOP over the years has changed his position. Looks like maybe it has.
oasis
(49,150 posts)involved in an tv argument with "Liberal Bias" author Bernard Goldberg. Goldberg berated him and called him out on being a political lightweight. At one point, Goldberg employed what could be considered a racial stereotype put down (they were in separate studios, of course). I believe that encounter was the beginning of Barkley's "evolution" away from the GOP.
Years later, Obama came onto the national stage.
ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)He was a novice in terms of political awareness. He mentioned that he liked some things the R's said to his grandmother. She scolded him that "republicans are for rich people". To which he replied, "gramma, we are rich people."
Nothing much he's said or done since that early period suggests he really was part of the republican philosophy.