- African Americans
- Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
- Catholics
- Educators
- Environmentalists
- Jewish Americans
- Latinos
- LGBT Americans
- Native Americans
- Nurses
- Parents
- People of Faith
- People With Disabilities
- Rural Americans
- Seniors
- Small Business Owners
- Veterans & Military Families
- Women
- Young Americans
These are groups Obama has targeted to re-elect him. Maybe this is just the list his campaign thinks can be reached on-line. There are other groups in play that don’t present so well on the internet such as government employee unions and government contractors.
Obama’s job is really pretty simple: Identify groups and pay them off. Authorize an entitlement, a benefit, a public expenditure for a group, expend the debt-financed federal money, move on to the next group.
Republicans have to sell an ideology, a basket of ideals that capture the imagination of their constituents – a much tougher proposition because it involves education, persuasion, historical context, ethics, morality … good grief, the list is endless.
To contrast, Democrats just write checks out of the treasury to their voters. Democrat constituents must possess the skill to cash a check, and then get to a polling place from time to time to pull a democrat voting lever — a pretty short resume’.
It doesn’t look good for taxpayers. They’re not on Obama’s list.
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