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The other week US News and World Reporter contacted me asking to do an interview on African American Republicans. The interview was an inquiry into why this blog was supporting McCain while other black Republicans were changing there vote. The interviewee Nikki Schwab was very balanced and incredibly fair in her questions. We spoke for over an hour even though I was incredibly tired from helping a friend move. Here is the excerpt she placed in the article entitled -Some Black Republicans Torn About Voting for Obama or McCain
~Another "very likely" McCain vote, but a more moderate one, will come from Richard Ivory, founder of the blog HipHopRepublican. Ivory has a different view of the Republican Party, one that downplays the past and focuses on building the party up from a local level and bringing in urban African-American voters. "My blog was about starting a dialogue—basically get people to understand some Republican concepts from an urban perspective," Ivory says. And like Varner at Howard University, Ivory finds that some are miffed by his Republicanness and don't quite understand why he would support a "white old guy." But with the general election in full swing, he has found a good way to express his feelings: "I tell my friends, my heart is with Obama, and my brain is with McCain," Ivory says.
-Some Black Republicans Torn About Voting for Obama or McCain
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