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Mitt Romney Hires Black Adviser in Attempt to Win Black Voters
It’s no secret that Mitt Romney’s campaign team has been making an effort to reach out to President Obama’s most loyal supporters, black voters. Romney is not only trying to reduce the huge Democratic margins but he is also trying to reassure independent swing voters that he can be inclusive and tolerant in his thinking and approach.
Recently, he ventured into an impoverished black neighborhood to hear the concerns of local educators and community leaders in the streets of West Philadelphia but the emotion surrounding his contest with the nation’s first black president was raw, as dozens of neighborhood residents shouted, “Get out, Romney, get out!”
His latest attempt at reaching African American voters is the hiring of Tara Wall, a former newscaster, Republican National Committee senior adviser, George W. Bush appointee, conservative columnist and deputy editorial page editor for the Washington Times. She was was hired recently as a senior communications adviser to the Mitt Romney campaign to handle outreach to African Americans.
Only time will tell how successful Mitt Romney will be be in reducing the huge Democratic margins and winning enough Black voters to give President Obama a run for his money or votes!
PLayrighter
May 29, 2012 at 3:27 pm
Suppose the headline were:
“Barack Obama Hires White Adviser in Attempt to Win White Voters”
Would that be just as objective?
legalblkchisis
May 29, 2012 at 3:42 pm
Yes Romney THAT’S a SURE WAY TO WIN “OUR” VOTES!! How disrespectful most African Americans I associate with a know DID NOT vote for Obama SIMPLY BECAUSE HE IS BLACK!! Surely I WON’T VOTE for ROMNEY because he hires a “BLACK” adviser!!
oomgo
May 29, 2012 at 3:55 pm
The headline is true – FULL STOP.
You cannot confuse the power of a white man to use and confuse Black people for his personal gain. We have four hundred plus years of history to learn from, if we are willing to learn.
Again, that cannot be compared to a black man who uses white people to influence white people. It’s not an equal playing field and your comparsion lacks credibilty.
vernon sukumu
May 29, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Did she get the ok from David Duke, is she claiming her lamanites heritage. If you don’t know what or who they are, google MORMON/ LAMANITES.
Until sept 30th 1978 black folks, could not go to the mormons heaven. Oh they’ve change you say, dose anyone really want to elect someone who believe that there is a god somewhere making up this crap.
Really!!!
June 4, 2012 at 10:10 pm
I so agree with your statement. People should really take a look at the believe of the Mormon religion. I know we are suppose to separate church from state. And, even if that were really the case, people still live their lifes and make decisions based on their believes, it’s just human nature. Now, a religion that considers a people spawns of Satan and then retracts that statement a few decades ago. Really, isn’t someone I want leading our nation. We could have another Jim Jones on our hands, where everyone would be forced to drink the kool-aid in America. I say…Please people really look at the person you are voting for. It’s the same trickery, just a different day. Don’t be fooled.
ICDATRUTH
May 29, 2012 at 7:52 pm
R U SERIOUS? Mitt can care less about anyone that makes less than 500k a year. The man is a sociopath and has severe personality issues. If you notice that wherever he goes he pretends to understand or want to be a part of whatever the local breeze blows. His own staff is afraid to let him speak to the crowds because he always saying something offensive to someone.
While I’m at it, this is towards all of those jack-leg preachers who are more than willing to vote for mitt because they disagree what the president said about gay marriages. If they won’t vote for the current president and suggest that their brainwashed flock do the same, they will find their tithes a lttle short because the cogregation’s SSI checks were short or they were trying to get healthcare that would be pretty much non-existant. Did any of those clowns realize that the president never said that he would do anything about it, he just said that he supported it. Constitutional he is correct regardless of what the pastors think. Give them a civil union or something else just don’t call it a marriage which is a religious term anyway.
charles mcghee
May 29, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Well the black unemployment rate was 15.5% in 2010 it’s now 2012 and the black unemployment rate is 15.5% so if we’re concerned about jobs (i have an educated unemployed son) how much higher can Mitt take it than the president already has. It has been rare when he has even mentioned the Black unemployment rate, guess he doesn’t want to piss his white support off because he knows he has 93% of the black vote even if Black unemployment goes up to 20%.
Q
May 30, 2012 at 2:01 am
I will never vote for anyone that doesnt care about the lower and middle class folks. Also I will never vote for a racist and now he wants to use a Black Advisor to win our votes! Not a chance! I hope not 1 African-American falls for this one or were in serious trouble. The Republicans want to take over and thats the bottom line. They don’t care about us not one bit.
Deborah
May 30, 2012 at 11:20 am
African Americans, DO NOT FALL FOR THIS MAN! Obama is not perfect, and he has made very silly blunders over the past week’s but he is a safer option to someone whose:
-Church historically apprved of segregation
-rhetoric has never been outspoken about issues in America that disadvantage blacks such as the judiciary system, and unemployment, guns.
-rhetoric has never spoken out against the outrageous inequality in terms of black earnings compared to white earnings in America.
-rhetoric does not seem to benefit the lower classes.
Donald Allen
May 30, 2012 at 6:01 pm
Every White Republican and Conservative in the United States should send a message to the Republican Party of America by voting for President Obama simply because the GOP has become a dis-functioning, piece of right-wing rhetoric not helpful to any America or any race of people. One thing we do know, just because it’s colored Black – don’t mean its down with Black issues. This is much like the National Urban League and NAACP: Their only roll is to support the Democrats agenda for the US, not the people’s agenda.
Shame on you Team Romney!
James
May 30, 2012 at 10:32 pm
Is there no end to the length that black people can be used. African-Americans need to come to one realization; our only value to the American political system is our vote. Beyond that we are nothing, and the only time we will be heard is when there is a crisis that makes white people uncomfortable. Mitt Romney will do anything and say anything to win the Presidency; just as all other Presidential hopefuls before him. Once in office he will revert to business as usual and that is; we really don’t count in the main scheme of things. For anyone to help Romney get a single African-American vote is a sell-out and an Uncle Tom. Barack Obama isn’t perfect but he is Black, and with that alone he should get every Black vote. As African-Americans all we really have at the end of the day is our pride in the fact that a Black man became President of the United States, and we should do everything as African-Americans to keep him there as long as possible.
Jeffrey Carl Hart
June 3, 2012 at 11:35 pm
eh, I’m rather certain POTUS is 1/2 White, and that he is zero % ‘African-American’, being that his dad was full African and zero American.
Really!!!
June 5, 2012 at 3:54 pm
But doesn’t change the fact that he more in tune with the needs of the middle class and poor people. Mitt is hoping you fall for the lies. If you don’t want to read up on him. YouTube him, Mitt was so uncomfortable around a group of black people it was pathetic.