Can Republicans Win the African-American Vote?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/27/Race_and_the_State

Bruce Bartlett and Casey Lartigue question whether the Republican Party will ever have a chance at challenging the Democrats' overwhelming success among African-American voters.

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"Race and the State," featuring Bruce Bartlett and Casey Lartigue.

Is government more likely to be the friend or adversary of minority groups? Has it been liberals, conservatives, or libertarians like William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass who have been the most consistent defenders of everyone's rights? What does history suggest would be the best public policy for racial minorities in the 21st century?

Bruce Bartlett, a former Reagan administration economist with a provocative new book, and Casey Lartigue, coeditor of Educational Freedom in Urban America and a controversial former XM 169 talk show host, will discuss these questions - Cato Institute

Bruce Bartlett is an economist associated with supply-side economics. He was a domestic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan and was a treasury official under President George H.W. Bush.

Casey Lartigue is a former policy analyst with Cato's Center for Educational Freedom. His research expertise includes school choice, teacher quality and minority education. His writings have been published in USA Today, Ed. magazine published at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Education Week, the New York Post, the Washington Times, Asian Week and the Washington Post.

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[tuneitout]

the answer is no.

[proteanview]

The 'African-American' vote is a canard. Sometimes groups may vote with similar patterns, but we can't assume there is a monolithic AA vote. Rice, Keyes, Powell are all AA and they vote very differently than Jackson & Sharpton. In California, many Latinos voted for Clinton; in DC area, for Obama. It's time to stop the politics of racial division. It's a an anti-intellectual distraction.

[brandon98188]

@brandon98188

Social programs are good. If republicans are going to descriminate against us blacks, then we minus well get some social programs. The govt should make life easier for it's citizens. Universal healthcare, govt jobs

taxing the rich is all good.

[CentristFiasco]

@brandon98188 Social programs are what most blacks tend to dig after looking at those statistics. The voter turnout since the 1930s, the blacks sure liked FDR even though they couldn't benefit fully from the benefits.

[brandon98188]

@CentristFiasco

I don't understand your response. are you saying blacks like free handouts?

[CentristFiasco]

@brandon98188 It's the free hand outs that get to most of them, let's face it. The New Deal is hard to come by....

[onstageagain]

Look toward Chicago, see 45% student drop out. If Chicago cannot follow obama then how can the rest of R nation?

I was shocked to hear ‘put Ur marching shoes on’ from POTUS. My God, is he trying to incite a riot? The millions of people of all colors out of work b/c of Obama’s socialist agend & he wants the blacks to MARCH? Please tell me exactly how thats going to get anyone a job. Get Ur head out of Ur ass Obama,  take a look at the country ! This guy is totally f’d up!

[SissyLou1]

If people would look closely at history (Jim Crow, Klu Klux Klan, George Wallace, Lester Maddox, etc.), NOBODY would vote Democrat.

[TheCaliCapitalist]

I dont see how a black person would vote for a republican.

[rashadkijani]

@artie0433 What baggage do we blacks carry? And what does it have to do with what political party we vote for?

[artie0433]

My people make very difficult for the republican party to reach out to us. In many black circles,if you are a republican you are considered the lowest of the lows.

And also,I'm not quite sure the republican party would be willing to except the masses of blacks and all the baggage that we carry.

[brandon98188]

let's put it this way, if Obama ran as a republican, Clinton would of got the balck vote. Black cares more about democratic issues over a black face. in most cases.