Was 1960 the last election when the GOP made a serious play for black votes?
It’s kind of amazing that Richard Nixon was using this rhetoric in 1960, and then in 1968 used racial resentment as a wedge issue. More amazing? That no Republican running for national office would be caught dead saying these words today.
We’ll have more on Barack Obama’s (likely) victory tomorrow. And if Mitt Romney wins? Well, that would be a bigger shock than finding out Magic Mike is actually a dark, bleak, pessimistic recession film. (Which I found out yesterday!)