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In a first, black voter turnout rate passes whites
Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Updated 6:06 pm, Sunday, April 28, 2013 | By HOPE YEN, Associated Press

Posted on 04/28/2013 7:01:40 PM PDT by thecodont

WASHINGTON (AP) — America's blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home.

Had people voted last November at the same rates they did in 2004, when black turnout was below its current historic levels, Republican Mitt Romney would have won narrowly, according to an analysis conducted for The Associated Press.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/In-a-first-black-voter-turnout-rate-passes-whites-4470090.php#ixzz2RoVrhiJ5

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012election; 2012electionanalysis; blacks; voterturnout; voting
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1 posted on 04/28/2013 7:01:40 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

Well, if the GOP hadn’t fielded a candidate whose background and history screamed Progressive Liberal, I doubt that would have been the case.

But when both parties field a Democrat, it’s really hard to get your base enthused.


2 posted on 04/28/2013 7:03:18 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: thecodont

We all know that blacks are one issue voters.

That Issue-——Black.


3 posted on 04/28/2013 7:03:25 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: thecodont

How many voted more than once ????


4 posted on 04/28/2013 7:04:34 PM PDT by True Grit
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To: thecodont
In a first, black voter turnout rate passes whites

...and look where it got us!

5 posted on 04/28/2013 7:05:03 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I got expelled from the "fundamental transformation" indoctrination center.)
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To: thecodont

Highly contestable! When you consider that groups of blacks were bused from precinct to precinct, from state to state, even, and local democratic pollsters admitted to voting as many as 6 times each...and I wonder just how often that happened in Philly, DC, large cities all over...? There is no way that this was a fair election. It was stolen...and what’s more...Obama knew that they would not let him down, they’d do what they had to do to get him re-elected. Non citizens were bused from state to state, people from Africa who could not speak English, even! This report is plain old BS!


6 posted on 04/28/2013 7:06:41 PM PDT by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: thecodont

I smell fraud.


7 posted on 04/28/2013 7:07:27 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Some people take there grammar way to seriously.)
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To: thecodont
The truth about the elections and has been for a while now is, it’s about the “freebies”.
8 posted on 04/28/2013 7:07:38 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: thecodont

sure they did...


9 posted on 04/28/2013 7:09:33 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: thecodont

1. Mitt Romney was a truly lousy candidate. Abortion, health care, immigration, gay marriage, massive government spending, you name it and he was nearly as bad as Obama.

2. Most blacks live in Democrat inner cities, where vote cheating is massive.

3. Every sign points to vote cheating on a scale even worse than it was under Bill Clinton, which is pretty amazing.

But did Mitt Romney even open his mouth to question this massive cheating, which was extremely open and obvious? Of course not. He had no interest in attacking Obama. He only attacked conservatives running in the primary.


10 posted on 04/28/2013 7:11:20 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Shery

On election day ‘08 I was driving for Trailways. An “activist” group put about 25 Spanishs peaking people on the bus in Iowa City headed for Chicago with pictograph* fliers instructing them how to vote. I assume they had already voted in Iowa.

*lots of donkeys


11 posted on 04/28/2013 7:12:50 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: thecodont

“blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, ....

Had people voted last November at the same rates they did in 2004, when black turnout was below its current historic levels, Republican Mitt Romney would have won narrowly”

I KNEW IT! VINDICATION!

On both counts - high level, and made Uhbama win.

Because they can’t wait to vote for a pseudo-black.


12 posted on 04/28/2013 7:13:30 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: thecodont
Well, it helps when they are allowed to vote as many times as they can get away with.

Liberals think of it as a force multiplier. One black with many votes is worth at least that many other race votes.

13 posted on 04/28/2013 7:13:52 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Venturer

When a black Dem is involved.

Really, their 1 issue is - welfare.


14 posted on 04/28/2013 7:14:16 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: thecodont

With many black precincts turning out greater than 100%.


15 posted on 04/28/2013 7:15:32 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: thecodont

They are dedicated. Why some even voted 3 or 4 times!


16 posted on 04/28/2013 7:17:51 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Cicero

Yes. And now the Establishment is starting to beat the drums for their next pick, Jeb. Jeb could not run in ’12 because the memories of ’08 were still too fresh. But now George is being rehabilitated, at least “Compassionate George,” is. Warlord George, not so much.


17 posted on 04/28/2013 7:18:56 PM PDT by RobbyS
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To: ilovesarah2012

Even the dead ones probably voted 2 or 3 times.


18 posted on 04/28/2013 7:23:07 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: thecodont

The point of the article is that whites stayed home in large numbers. Had their turnout been in line with historic norms, Romney would have won. Many of those who stayed home were Freepers. Go figure.


19 posted on 04/28/2013 7:26:16 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: thecodont

The count was probably 140% of the registered black voters.

FRAUD....


20 posted on 04/28/2013 7:28:47 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
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