*sigh* Another black Republican down

[minionofmidas]

There is only one logical choice to the GOP in this dilemma:

Keep trying to win black voters, even when/if their share of the GOP vote is 10-15% in a good election.

After all, polling 15% instead of 10% of Black voters in a national election is just as much of an improvent as polling 52% instead of 51.2% of White voters is.

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Except it's probably harder to do, especially without loss of non-Black vote.

[minionofmidas]

...and yet I'm pretty sure Reagan did a good deal better among Black voters than Dole did.

[minionofmidas]

Reagan was actually quite unpopular amongst blacks.  He won only 6% of African Americans in 1984, which probably explains why he won 59% of the vote rather than 61% like Nixon did in 1972 - and Nixon won a surprising amount of black voters.  George Bush in 1988 was credited with doubling African American support for the GOP, he won 12% - double Reagan's total in 1984. 

Yeah, Reagan was known for alienating black voters.

Hm, I never knew that. (Although when he died, and the media was full of how great and beloved a president he'd been and there were people queuing three times around the block to see his cadaver, some German journalist noted only two Blacks in said queue in a 60%+ Black city, and spoke with both of them. )