Sen. John McCain this morning announced he will show up for Univision's Spanish-language Republican presidential forum in Miami in December. The question is, will anyone else?
Univision had planned a September debate but only McCain committed to showing up at that one, causing the nation's largest Spanish-language broadcaster to indefinitely postpone the forum. Univision didn't return a call or an e-mail message yet this morning asking about details, while the University of Miami, which was scheduled to host the debate, had no comment.
All of the top-tier Republicans avoided a debate aimed at black voters and held at Morgan State University in Baltimore last month, and coupled with the Univision snub it's producing mounds of bad press from columnists arguing the GOP is showing a racially insensitive streak. The top Democrats, for their part, have attended debates aimed at both Hispanic and black voters, as well as one sponsored by gay-rights groups.
But the Morgan State debate, which repeatedly featured questions accusing Republicans of failing blacks, showed the downside of these tailored debates for the GOP. And it's also the case that black voters make up very little of the Republican primary electorate — and that's who the candidates are trying to win right now.
Whoever the eventual Republican nominee is will get some sort of a do-over with both black and Hispanic voters in the general election, and that will be when we should judge the party's minority outreach.
— Stephen Dinan, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (3)
I can't wait until next November. Republicans will get punished bad for their racism. They are fighting a losing battle: it is called demographics-America's population is changing. White-anglo-saxon-protestants are aging/dying and will be under 50% by 2040-2050. And the process is irreversible. But Republicans' failure on immigration will haunt them for a long time. Racism always loses in America.
Posted by ivan | October 16, 2007 1:03 PM
Thank You for the "fair and balanced" article on "Ron Paul's Stashed Cash." Media today seems to indicate that the fundraising analysis given in the Ron Paul Press Conference can hardly be refuted and the media has stepped up to the plate admirably, partially restoring my faith in them. Another article today, "Brokebank McCain" seems to indicate that "The Washington Times" agrees with the analysis clearly showing that Ron Paul's over 5 mil of cash on-hand with no associated indebtedness places him neck and neck with Romney as far as debt-free cash in the coffer.
For this reason, I take issue with this article saying that none of the top-tier candidates were at the above debate. Ron Paul was there and according to The Baltimore Sun poll, won the debate although he was not given the opportunity to address issues most important to the audience.
Posted by Nena Norwood | October 17, 2007 10:34 PM
No self respecting minority should vote for GOP.
Posted by George Chell | October 18, 2007 9:03 AM