{"id":502,"date":"2007-09-18T19:27:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T01:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=502"},"modified":"2007-09-18T19:29:14","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T01:29:14","slug":"minority-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Minority Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do the Republicans just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/election2008\/2007-09-13-tavis_N.htm\">ignore<\/a> minorities? The stranglehold the Dems have over the non-white vote is their basic pillar of strength. Many of these pople might vote conservative if the GOP reached out to them. But every election, we hear &#8220;they won&#8217;t vote for us anyway so why bother&#8221;. But that&#8217;s a self-fulfilling prophecy. When you refuse to address black audiences, or speak at black colleges or go on spanish-language television, it&#8217;s a massive slap in the face to the fastest growing segment of our population.<\/p>\n<p>Reaching out to minority audiences is an <em>investment<\/em> in the political future of the Party. It may not pay off today, but it will sometime.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP is quickly going down a rathole chasing the ever-shrinking homophobic white Christian vote. Given the demographic trends, this is nothing but a drawn-out suicide. It is a perfect emobidment of the &#8220;win today, screw the future&#8221; attitude the Party has taken under the &#8220;leadership&#8221; of W. <\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t afford for the sane party to go down in flames like this. God, I wish we had elected McCain in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do the Republicans just ignore minorities? The stranglehold the Dems have over the non-white vote is their basic pillar of strength. Many of these pople might vote conservative if the GOP reached out to them. But every election, we hear &#8220;they won&#8217;t vote for us anyway so why bother&#8221;. But that&#8217;s a self-fulfilling prophecy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minority Report<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-86","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}