[soycd]

95% is for sure.

[Political Junkie Too]

Is black support of Obama based only on race?

After the civil war (Great Migration (African American)), there was a renaissance of sorts in the African-American population that produced the likes of George Washington Carver, Scott Joplin, Elijah McCoy, Booker T. Washington, et. al.

If African-Americans vote the way the author suggests, it is because they were taught to do so, after the New Great Migration.

Also see Segregated economic life and education for more on the gains in post-Civil War African-American society.

-PJ

[StAnDeliver]

Some very instructive parallels in this article:

"For example, had McCain won a third of the African-American vote in 2008, he would have carried North Carolina, Indiana, Florida, Ohio and Virginia...Bush would have defeated John Kerry by a 337-200 margin with one-third of the African-American vote..."-- Cain, the GOP and Black Vote, RealClearPolitics.com"

Bobo's cadre has said they're running the Kerry map in 2012. And in fact, their defeat will look much like his...notably, the GOP nom doesn't need 1/3rd of the black vote. Just need turnout to return to 2004 levels, a mere 5% drop. And it will.

[jaydubya2]

I don't believe the percentage tells the real story. Blacks came out in huge numbers in 08 to vote for a African American.

Census.gov:

" About 131 million people reported voting in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, an increase of 5 million from 2004, according to a new table package released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. The increase included about 2 million more black voters, 2 million more Hispanic voters and about 600,000 more Asian voters, while the number of non-Hispanic white voters remained statistically unchanged."

[PAConservative1]

Actually, no. 95% of blacks will vote for the Democrat no matter what, regardless of who they are. They’ve been indoctrinated.

[Lil Flower]

Excuse me Tom Surber, but where the hell have you been the last 20+years. Have you nothing better to do than to go around asking obvious questions? Your headline might as well have said “Does the sun rise in the east and set in the west”? Pff

[MARKUSPRIME]

Yep