| "Just Not Feeling It" |
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October 19, 2004 |
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I had this story from yesterday and it buttresses what we've been talking about today. It's from the LA Times, actually yesterday is when it was published, and the headline is: "Kerry Seeks to Connect to Blacks." It's date-lined Cleveland. "After spending much of the spring and summer courting swing voters, Sen. John F. Kerry is now hurriedly trying to rev up enthusiasm among African Americans, turning his attention to a stalwart Democratic constituency that some community leaders complain he neglected for too long. In the last several weeks, Kerry has tapped the Rev. Jesse Jackson as a senior advisor, held a summit of African American clergy in Philadelphia and visited black churches in Cleveland and Miami, joined by Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton..."
 Now, this is the story from yesterday, of course, but it buttresses what we're saying. There's trouble in paradise out there. These traditional Democrat constituencies, something is happening. Kerry's support now is down from the usual 82 to 83% to 69% in the black community, down to 64% in the Jewish community. "Surveys taken by the Washington Post and ABC News in September showed that while nearly 80% of African Americans respondents said they planned to vote for Kerry, less than half of those considered themselves 'very enthusiastic' about his candidacy." Which just means he's a dryball. The Black Caucus Foundation brought him up there in Washington, had a meeting and said (paraphrasing) "Look, get off this Iraq stuff. We don't care about any of that. You better tell people what's in it for them to vote for you," meaning, "What's your domestic agenda?" meaning, "What are the goodies you're going to give away?" and Kerry, only in the last debate did he start detailing some of this, but he didn't detail it specifically to the black community.
"Laura Goodrum, 45 as she ran errands at a shopping mall in Glenville, Ohio, said, 'I'm just not feeling it. I think Kerry would do the job better, but not much.' Ron Edwards, 40, the owner of a Cleveland painting company, 'Clinton was comfortable around black people. I think intellectually Kerry is, but emotionally I'm not so sure he's that comfortable.'" So I just wanted to mention this to you to give you more evidence of what I've been claiming the last two days on the program. Things are not right in this campaign. They're not. The things that are happening here are not the things of a campaign that's on an up-tick and has momentum behind them, and they're not feeling optimistic. This is pretty late in the game to be shoring up the black vote and the Jewish vote. Really, really late in the game to be shoring that up.
Now, I don't mean to sound like a broken record here today, but these are things that --
I don't know how, I'm not watching much mainstream news lately, but I don't think this is the kind of thing you're going to hear from them because it's a negative for Kerry and they're not in that business right now.
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