Ken Mehlman Breaks Down 2006 Elections With Hugh Hewitt
Ken Mehlman Breaks Down 2006 Elections With Hugh Hewitt
Ken Mehlman, appearing last night on Hugh Hewitt s radio program, gave a region-by-region analysis of the 2006 elections. Mehlman says I think we can advance across the country .In 2004, we had the most Republican and conservative electorate that we've had in 80 years. Yet at the same time, we got 44% of the Latino vote, we doubled the African-American vote in Ohio, a critical state to victory. We got 53% of the Catholic vote. We reduced the gender gap. If you lived in a city of over 500,000 people, we got 13% more votes in 2004, than we had gotten in 2000. Why did that happen? It happened because if you are confident, and you put forward a compassionate conservative philosophy, and you explain it everywhere and anywhere, then you have the opportunity to simultaneously motivate the base, and reach out to swing voters, and reach out to new faces and new voices.