I think that poll is PURE GARBAGE and is CONTRIVED to support the phony "Republicans are all racists" narrative.
About a month or so ago there was a group of something like 1000 black pastors that said they were telling their congregations that they should not vote for Obama due to his position on queer marriage. Common sense says more of those members will not vote for Obama this time vs 2008.
No one, however, slept through the history lesson Tuesday night at the monthly meeting of the Hillsborough County (Tampa) Republican Executive Committee. But then Frantz Kebreau is not your ordinary professor. If fact, he's not a professor at all but an airline pilot and former Navy pilot with more than 300 carrier landings, taking some time away from the clouds to promote a more earthly understanding of the blessings of American freedom that people of all races can enjoy (at least and until politicians zero those freedoms out).
One of the favorite indoor sports of liberals is to call conservatives, particularly those with the temerity to embrace the tea-party, racist. To hear media-appointed black "leaders" like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpie, not to mention some of the more demagogic members of the Congressional Black Caucus, you'd think all white American conservatives, regardless of protestations to the contrary and spotless lives, are closet Ku-Kluxers who can barely contain their inner Bull Connor. These bigots we're told, given half a chance, would have our black brothers and sisters on the back of the bus again in a heartbeat.......[snip]
Kebreau, whose parents immigrated to America from Haiti, is having none of this. Since 2009 he's been on the news, talk shows, and speaking circuit making the point that, though few Americans know it, the record of the Republican Party for a century and a half has not only been more supportive of Black Americans than that of the Democratic Party has, but much more so.
In his Tuesday lecture before a couple hundred GOP activists in Tampa, Kebreau pointed out that the more than a dozen civil rights acts introduced into Congress over the past century and a half were all introduced by Republicans and opposed by Democrats, often vociferously. In each case a higher percentage of Republicans supported real civil rights than Democrats, including the all-important Civil Right Act of 1964. A full 80 percent of Republicans voted in Congress for this game-changing legislation that was the beginning of the end for Jim Crow. Only 63 percent of Democrats supported it, not including Democratic icon and former Ku Klux Klan member Robert C. Byrd, who filibustered it."..... [snip]..
I totally agree that this is just to paint Romney as a racist. But I doubt that these same pastors would find Romney’s position on gays any better. That is the trouble I’m finding this year. It should be easier because blacks tend to be more anti-gay agenda than whites and don’t have the guilt other people seem to have about being against gay marriage. But Romney’s own position on gays leaves them with no reason to vote for him.
Notice that your quote does not read, “will vote for Romney this time . . ."IMHO the effect of a decision not to vote for Obama is more likely to lead to a decision not to vote, or a failure to decide to vote. Thus, you could still see a “100%” vote for Obama and yet see a decrease in actual voting support for Obama.
Lloyd Marcus is really taking it to the wall when he challenges his preacher dad on his commitment to Jesus . . .
One would THINK those pastors would get even more traction by pointing out Obama’s support of abortion/infanticide issue, especially seeing the number of black babies that are aborted yearly.