Sunday, June 29, 2008
Democrat Barack Obama could wrestle the Southern states away from the GOP for the first time since Richard Nixon carried the region in 1968.
Record African American turnout in states with large black populations, coupled with young, college-educated whites, divide the opposition with a third-party candidate where you can, and reach a “win number” to take Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia.
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe says:
“In Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, Sen. Obama is on track to get a higher vote share than any Democrat in 40 years.“
Obama boasted he could redraw the South’s political map and rock the foundation of every modern Republican presidency since Richard Nixon won in 1968:
“I’ll give you one specific example Mississippi is 40 percent African American, but it votes 25 percent African American. If we just got the African Americans in Mississippi to vote their percentage, Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state. And Georgia may be a Democratic state. Even South Carolina starts being in play. And I guarantee you African American turnout, if I’m the nominee, goes up 30 percent around the country, minimum.”
The dissatisfaction of the Republicans and George Bush is huge in the south. All factors that benefit Obama.
9 Comments
+ at 5:04 am
I think this strategy is brilliant and I love the idea of taking back the South from the Republican party.
This is exactly how Obama can win the election and it also means he doesn’t have to be the Clintons step-N-fetch it to coddle the Hillbots. Let them vote for McCain — they don’t matter.
Big southern cities like Atlanta and Raleigh have been trending Democratic for years and this what helps Obama in the Electoral College.
+ at 5:55 am
All my family, left, right and in the middle, is jacked up about Obama and plan to vote for him. Some of them live in rural parts of Georgia where Bush was Christ just 4 years ago.
Imagine that?
+ at 6:08 am
Its about time a Democrat got a pair and went after EVERY state and not just 20 states.
+ at 6:14 am
If Obama succeeds in gaining control of the South, he will be a hero to millions.
+ at 6:33 am
Current polls show Obama within 2 percent here in North Carolina…this is amazing to me as a resident for 15 years. North Carolina just may turn purple this year and that is the goal.
We are already mobilizing voter registration drives statewide. In Charlotte Obama got 75 percent of the vote in the primary. Charlotte is a predominatly White, College educated, middle class city full of Bankers. Folks this election is going to be real fun!
+ at 6:40 am
Some of them live in rural parts of Georgia where Bush was Christ just 4 years ago.
I’ve got kin in northern Florida and they hate Bush and they hate McCain.
They plan to vote for Obama for change.
+ at 8:41 am
If the GOP loses the South, they lose the White House and may not get a Republican elected president for a generation.
Suits me just fine.
+ at 3:58 pm
I can only hope that the 50-state strategy (gee, why didn’t the Dems think of this YEARS ago?) works.
+ at 6:08 pm
Obama is mostly white and his white friends behind him. If you think he is going to help you, like Bill Clinton said, ” It is a Fairy Tale ! “