Republican Says 2014 Will Be Great Because Minorities and Young People Won’t Vote

[Tx4obama]

Republican Says 2014 Will Be Great Because Minorities and Young People Won’t Vote

Nevada Republican Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey let his lips get a little too loose on a local talk radio show when he admitted that the only way Republicans can win is if minorities and young people don’t vote.

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Hickey said, “We have some real opportunities in 2014. This is a great year in an off presidential election. Seemingly no Democrat at the top of the ticket against Sandoval.No Harry Reid. Probably where we had a million voters turnout in 2012, we’ll have like 700,000. A lot of minorities, a lot of younger people will not turn out in a non-presidential year. It’s a great year for Republicans.”

Republicans know that when minorities and younger people show up to vote, they lose. This knowledge is behind everything from voter suppression efforts to their optimism about 2014. It is a little stunning to hear an elected Republican admit that if the full electorate shows up, the GOP expects to lose, but it’s the truth. The only chance that Republicans have of winning elections outside of their red state base is if Democrats don’t show up.

The backwards thinking in the GOP is amazing. Instead of trying to expand the size of the Republican Party by courting minorities and young people, Republicans are perfectly happy to only win off year elections. Actually, the lesson that the Republican Party has learned is that they should try to shrink the size of the electorate, and turn every year into an off year election. Republicans are more interested in preventing Democrats from voting than they are in convincing Democratic supporters to vote Republican.

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/25/republican-2014-great-year-minorities-young-people-vote.html

We better make sure that friends, family, and neighbors are registered to vote, have ID, and have a ride/way to the polls in 2014 and 2016

[louslobbs]

1. Won't vote, or won't be allowed to vote because of Republic disenfranchisement of certain

voters? The Republics make me want to vomit.
Lou

[Dawgs]

2. He may be right. Who knows? n/t

[coldmountain]

3. Democrats do poorly in general in off year elections and lt's cost our country dearly

That's how we got the "Contract on America", the TeaParty and all this NRA control

[Triana]

4. Minorities and Young People Won’t BE ALLOWED to Vote!

Just look at NC for a stark example of the disenfranchisement of minority and student voters, not to mention extremely blatant gerrymandering to protect their majorities.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

5. Yep. The GOP will shamelessly do all they can to keep those who just might oppose them from voting.

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. And some "Democrats" ...

here, do too.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

7. I don't know what that means. Would you elaborate?

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. I refer to the many, many ...

"That's it ... I'm never, ever, ever going to vote for these lying liar Democrats again" posts we find here.

[beerandjesus]

10. But in defense of the "Obama haters": I, for one, have said that many times

....... and still find myself back at the polls every year, hitting those (D) buttons..........

Can't speak for all, obviously, but I've gotten absolutely ripshit with this or that Democrat, or the party as a whole, more times than I can count, but I still show up!


And I'll bet there are many more like me, even if you wouldn't necessarily guess it from their posts on DU!

[1StrongBlackMan]

11. Well, thank you …

for not cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I can understand disagreement, even opposition to a, or even, several policy positions and the frustration that this produces … but to not look at the “Big Picture”, including whatHAS been accomplished (even if imperfect) in the context of the reality of the alternative (in this two-party system), is to deny one’s own day to day reality ... It is to act as though the political world operates, somehow, differently than real life.

How many times, IRL, do we pick the best of the alternative available to us, and not give it a second thought?

[Indyfan53]

9. I am a young person, and I will vote in 2014.

Who's with me? Let's prove the GOP wrong!

[shubham]

12. Thanks

A very nice sharing, Thanks for share with us.