Posted on 03/08/2010 12:43:08 PM PST by Abathar
WASHINGTON -- Democrats facing strong headwinds this election season have at least one reason for optimism, according to polling that found the party's large African-American voting bloc eager to stay involved even without Barack Obama on the ballot.
About two-thirds of black adults in four states say they are closely following news about the upcoming midterm elections, and between 74 percent and 80 percent say they are very likely to vote, according to the poll, conducted by the nonpartisan Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. The organization surveyed 500 African-Americans in each state -- Missouri, Indiana, Arkansas and South Carolina -- all of which have Senate races in November.
How many of those voters follow through with their intentions will help determine if Democrats hold control of Congress. In many competitive congressional districts, blacks make up a quarter of the electorate, and they vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. Their surge during Obama's 2008 victory is widely credited with helping sweep many down-ballot Democrats into office who might have otherwise lost.
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Let them vote. It's their right. But they only make up 12%-13% of the population. Our surge will offset their numbers no matter how you look at it.
Well, there goes the black vote...................
“And our government has already handed out BILLIONS to community organizations that can be counted to “get the vote out”.
Absolutely!...and the numbers they can deliver are staggering...a black Democrat city like Baltimore will deliver more votes than all of Free Republic.
Some black voters I know WILL NOT be voting Rat this time around....
I haven’t talked to a single senior citizen who isn’t fit to be tied about having to share their Medicare funds with anyone under 65, and they seem to live for one reason only - Voting against anyone screwing with the system as it is.
Let them keep believing the bs they tell themselves in order to sleep at night.The is a reckoning coming.
And he didn’t even pay their mortgage. Now that’s loyalty.
Check the keyword “knockanddrag” to see just how the Rat machine turns out the vote. Knock and Drag is their term for hauling people to the polls on election day (canvasing the same neighborhoods several times in the day so you’d better have a good excuse when you are telling the thugs at your door why you WON’T be going to the poll today).
There have even been incidents where they intimidate voters who happen to have the “wrong” candidates’ signs in their yards.
I suspect in some cases they use felons to intimidate voters. If they can’t “vote”, they can still contribute to the get out the vote effort.
My marxist congressman has admitted that he was swept into office because Obama was on the ticket.
Yes it is, along with the cries of voter intimidation, Diebold voter fraud, and every other scream of “foul!” the left knows.
Not a word was said last election about intimidation and fraud except by us, and Holder quashed that so fast it was pathetic.
This time if things go the way I think it will there will be massive protests at key dem strongholds all over the US with a common theme but no evidence - “They cheated us!!!”
Pigment overcomes principle.
ACORN robo calls working wonders.
This is why I don’t believe the headline.
I look at it as time for blacks to marry and have children outside of their “race” and blend in with the rest of humanity and let us all move on into the future as Americans. We don’t need categories.
In many districts it doesn’t matter who shows up. The votes are duly recorded by the local powers that be.
well now they think that they ARE really gonna be voting for Jay-Z...
makes sense, things have been going so well in their districts, they want to ensure it stays that way.
I suspect that a lot of them will be feeling pretty content: look for a lot of ‘stimulus’ money to suddenly enter the economy in left-voting demographics in the last month before the election. Who said walking-around money was a thing of the past?
Now, will that motivate them or sedate them? That’s the real question, IMHO.
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