Boehner Says Out Loud He Hopes Blacks and Latinos 'Won't Show Up' This Election

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House Speaker John Boehner is the most prominent Republican to admit, out loud, that his party's strategy for winning in November doesn't suppose that the GOP can win over some black and Latino voters, but hopes they won't vote at all. Boehner wasn't talking about voter I.D. laws, which are being pushed by Republicans and criticized as disenfranchising minority and poor voters, he did tell a luncheon hosted by the Christian Science Monitor in Tampa Monday that the Republican Party was counting on apathy from the Latinos and blacks who are choosing Democrats over Republicans by record margins in recent polls. As Talking Point Memo's Benjy Sarlin reports, Boehner said:

“This election is about economics… These groups have been hit the hardest. They may not show up and vote for our candidate but I’d suggest to you they won’t show up and vote for the president either.”

Perhaps he meant those groups would vote third-party, but it doesn't seem all that likely. Less prominent Republicans have made essentially the same case in other terms. Doug Priesse, chair of the Franklin County, Ohio, Republican Party, indicated restrictions on early voting hours and voter ID laws were meant to keep blacks from voting. In an email sent earlier this month to The Columbus Dispatch's Darrel Rowland, Priesse said

"I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine… Let’s be fair and reasonable."

Priesse is on the elections board and voted against keeping polls open in the weekends. In June, Pennsylvania House Republican leader Mike Turzai conceeded the point of voter ID is to help Republicans win when he said, "Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done."

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/08/boehner-says-out-loud-he-hopes-blacks-and-latinos-wont-show-election/56245/

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He's predicting low minority turnout. He's not "hoping" for it. Stop lying, Commie Appeaser.

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He's predicting low minority turnout. He's not "hoping" for it. Stop lying, Commie Appeaser.

Habitual Offender / Commie Appeaser

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You lied. Stop trying to change the subject.

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He's predicting low minority turnout. He's not "hoping" for it.

Are you sure about that?

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I didn't see blacks or Latinos in the quote.

Seems kind of misleading to me.

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I didn't see blacks or Latinos in the quote.

Seems kind of misleading to me.

Other news sources have the complete conversation. It is about AA and Latinos but he isn't hoping they don't vote, he's saying this cycle they may not like they did in 2008. It's the kind of forecasting politicians do all the time. It's no big deal.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

It is about AA and Latinos but he isn't hoping they don't vote,

Boehner isn't hoping that the GOP will win the White House?

[slim 1,533]

Other news sources have the complete conversation. It is about AA and Latinos but he isn't hoping they don't vote, he's saying this cycle they may not like they did in 2008. It's the kind of forecasting politicians do all the time. It's no big deal.

The headline of this thread says Boehner says out loud he hopes Blacks and Latinos 'Wont Show Up' and then the story quoted doesn't say that. Did he say it out loud or not?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The headline of this thread says Boehner says out loud he hopes Blacks and Latinos 'Wont Show Up' and then the story quoted doesn't say that. Did he say it out loud or not?

He probably broke down crying before he could say it.

[slim 1,533]

He probably broke down crying before he could say it.

Then the headline of this thread should be changed.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Then the headline of this thread should be changed.

Why? Because all thread titles are always 100% reflective of the content of the thread?

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The headline of this thread says Boehner says out loud he hopes Blacks and Latinos 'Wont Show Up' and then the story quoted doesn't say that. Did he say it out loud or not?

He said out loud that he doesn't believe minority turnout in 2012 will be high. It was a forecast, not a hope.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

He said out loud that he doesn't believe minority turnout in 2012 will be high. It was a forecast, not a hope.

It was both. Obviously he hopes the GOP will win. The only way that happens is if minorities don't turn out. Now do the math. You've done well on that in the other thread.

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It was both. Obviously he hopes the GOP will win. The only way that happens is if minorities don't turn out. Now do the math. You've done well on that in the other thread.

What he said out loud was a forecast, the kind of thing professional pols do all the time.