{"id":2573,"date":"2011-11-12T03:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/11\/new-conservative-coalition-aims-to-rally-minorities-for-2012.html"},"modified":"2011-11-12T03:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T03:46:00","slug":"new-conservative-coalition-aims-to-rally-minorities-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/11\/new-conservative-coalition-aims-to-rally-minorities-for-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"New Conservative Coalition Aims to Rally Minorities for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>A new grassroots group is organizing Republican presidential candidates and members of the Hispanic and African-American communities around economic issues in the hopes of drawing disenchanted minorities away from Barack Obama in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Since Obama picked up 96 percent of the African-American electorate in 2008, support for the president in the black community has dropped to 81 percent thanks to disproportionate unemployment rates. Hispanics, who are also suffering from the high unemployment rate, have also expressed disappointment with the current administration\u2019s approach to the economy and immigration reform.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/new-conservative-coalition-aims-to-rally-minorities-for-2012-61258\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new grassroots group is organizing Republican presidential candidates and members of the Hispanic and African-American communities around economic issues in the hopes of drawing disenchanted minorities away from Barack Obama in 2012. Since Obama picked up 96 percent of the African-American electorate in 2008, support for the president in the black community has dropped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Conservative Coalition Aims to Rally Minorities for 2012<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A new grassroots group is organizing Republican presidential candidates and members of the Hispanic and African-American communities around economic\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/11\/new-conservative-coalition-aims-to-rally-minorities-for-2012.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Conservative Coalition Aims to Rally Minorities for 2012\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new grassroots group is organizing Republican presidential candidates and members of the Hispanic and African-American communities around economic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/11\/new-conservative-coalition-aims-to-rally-minorities-for-2012.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rhetoric Race and Religion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-11-12T03:46:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andre E. 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