Interestingly, in this poll Fiorina gets 27% of the black vote. This seemed surprising to me considering McCain got 5% of the black vote nationally, and perhaps less in CA I’d guess.
It happens often. One of the consistent quirks of African-American voters that any pollster will tell you about is the strange fact that they readily vote in excess of 90% for the Democrats in Presidential elections, but have been known to split in excess of 30% to GOP candidates in some instances in statewide and local elections.
In Illinois, black voters went 99% for Obama, and probably will again in 2012. Mark Kirk is likely to take as much as 30% of the black vote against the Democrat in the Senate race this year, and Bill Brady as much as 15% in the Governor's race.
Just a long-standing anomaly.
SurveyUSA’s internals on the black vote are usually way weird. 27% is normal for a SurveyUSA poll; if anything, it’s rather low. But they tend to be accurate in the big picture. My guess is that maybe they randomly distribute the unresponsive people?
Maybe a sympathy vote for the cancer survivor?