{"id":2419,"date":"2013-04-08T23:16:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T03:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2013-04-08T23:16:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T03:16:21","slug":"rand-pauls-play-to-win-over-black-voters-at-howard-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/08\/rand-pauls-play-to-win-over-black-voters-at-howard-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul&#8217;s Play to Win Over Black Voters at Howard University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-media.nationaljournal.com\/?controllerName=image&amp;action=get&amp;id=25788&amp;format=homepage_lead\"><\/p>\n<p>The GOP minority outreach efforts continue: This time, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sen. Rand Paul taking the message to a historically black university.<\/p>\n<p>Paul will be delivering a speech at Howard University on Wednesday, where he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll talk about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the importance of outreach to younger voters, as well as minority groups,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to his office. He also plans to address school choice and civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p>The Kentucky Republican\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s appearance echoes the recommendations made in the Republican National Committee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s autopsy report, detailing why the party lost the 2012 election and urging the party to court minority and young voters. Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s positions on foreign policy, Internet freedom, and reforming drug laws appeal to younger voters on college campuses. He also has targeted<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2013\/03\/24\/rand-paul-dont-send-kids-to-jail-for-drug-crimes\/\">\u00c2\u00a0mandatory minimum sentencing<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0for drug crimes, which disproportionately affects African-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/politics\/rand-paul-s-play-to-win-over-black-voters-at-howard-university-20130408\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/politics\/rand-paul-s-play-to-win-over-black-voters-at-howard-university-20130408<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP minority outreach efforts continue: This time, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sen. Rand Paul taking the message to a historically black university. Paul will be delivering a speech at Howard University on Wednesday, where he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll talk about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the importance of outreach to younger voters, as well as minority groups,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to his office. He also plans to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/08\/rand-pauls-play-to-win-over-black-voters-at-howard-university\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rand Paul&#8217;s Play to Win Over Black Voters at Howard University&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[292,114,6],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-elahe-izadi","tag-homepage","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-D1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}