If the race was between Allen West and Hillary Clinton, or Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid, for whom do you think blacks would vote?
A pandering lefty who would continue the handouts - that’s who they would vote for.
“If the race was between Allen West and Hillary Clinton, or Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid, for whom do you think blacks would vote?”
Yours is the exception that proves the rule.
Blacks would vote for Clinton in your example because Alan West would be labeled an “Uncle Tom”, an “oreo”. He wouldn’t get much black support.
Blacks will support the black every time, with one proviso: if the black in question is not perceived as being “one of them” (i.e., the “Tom” scenario), they will “vote liberal over black”.
Thus the black backlash against Clarence Thomas, who was viewed by blacks as being a puppet of the evil Republicans.
Blacks aren’t 100% united in this behavior — there is a distinct but small cohort of blacks who seem to think more independently, and who try to escape the “racial gravitational pull” that draws the majority of blacks into a cultural world that is pointedly “non-Euro”. We saw that in 2008, when McCain won about 5% of the black vote. This time, Romney may win a little more, but it won’t be much — Obama will still win over 90% of blacks, maybe more.
There may be a number of blacks who are disenchanted with Obama and won’t vote for him again, but I doubt they will vote for Romney. They’ll sit it out instead.