Problem is, elections aren't held on Sundays
Posted on 05/11/2012 9:10:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Some African Americans will think twice about voting for President Obama in November after he declared his support for gay marriage, according to Republican Rep. Allen West of Florida.
“I think it’s going to cause an incredible discussion in the black community, because, as you know, on Sundays in the black community the most conservative people in America are in those black churches,” West told ABC News on Thursday.
“I think it may have been a huge miscalculation, especially when you have 41 states that recognize marriage between one man and one woman, and you just came off an incredible loss to them. Sixty-nine percent voted for [the recent same-sex marriage ban] in North Carolina, which is a key swing state he barely won last time,” West said
He noted that even as African Americans overwhelmingly supported Obama in 2008, gay marriage bans passed in both Florida and California.
African Americans oppose gay marriage 55 percent to 41 percent, while all poll respondents support it 52 percent to 43 percent, according to an ABC News poll taken in March. While 94 percent of black voters in California supported Obama in 2008, 70 percent also supported the Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage, according to exit polls....
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I badly want to agree with Lt. Col. West, but I just cannot.
People have HIERARCHY OF NEEDS. To put it another way, they have PRIORITIES.
To African Americans, Gay marriage is LOW PRIORITY.
The priority is still ECONOMIC. Which is to say -— What are you going to GIVE for me in terms of welfare, housing, education, jobs, etc.
And unfortunately because of this, they will STILL vote for Obama and NOT CARE about gay marriage when they do.
To make a long story short — THEY WILL STILL VOTE MONEY FOR THEMSELVES FROM THE PUBLIC TREASURY.
I doubt Holder’s people are going to not vote for Obama just because he is pro queer.
The liberal white crackers down at the DNC will whip them into line before the “election”. No problem for Barry.
I doubt Obama will lose many black votes but I bet his big gay nonsense costs him the votes of a significant number of whites and latinos.
Maybe his number will go from 95% to 93%, but there will be no significant change.
Obama could sign a law requiring blacks to be hung from lampposts, and blacks would still vote for him.
Obama could give Bill Cosby a blow job on TV, and it wouldn’t hurt him with the black vote...
Most blacks wouldn’t care less if they discovered that Obama was the vilest most despicable individual that ever existed ... he is black, therefore they will vote for him. As for his socialist leanings, many blacks already live in a socialist utopia ... no work required for food stamps, rent assistance, etc. Let someone else pay.
The state I currently live in has one of the highest percentages of blacks, yet Hell will go Lutheran before Mr. Obama wins Mississippi. I can’t think of too many states where it really matters. Remember, we have an electoral college system. It’s white guilt that elected Mr. Obama in 2008.
That’s very funny and unfortunately true.
Most blacks wouldn’t care less if they discovered that Obama was the vilest most despicable individual that ever existed ... he is black, therefore they will vote for him. As for his socialist leanings, many blacks already live in a socialist utopia ... no work required for food stamps, rent assistance, etc. Let someone else pay.
You nailed it very well.
Unfortunately,to many whites and other non=blacks, sodomite so=called “marriage” is no big deal. They have been conditioned by leftist brainwashing to accept it.
Bfl
I would like to thank Joe Biden’s mouth, the Super Gaffe-O-Matic, for forcing Obama to own this issue.
Of course Obama will still get a high number of black votes. But, if even a small percentage don’t go to the polls over this, it will hurt him as he is down among several catagories of voters.
This issue does not help him except for money from his base and a temporary distraction from the dismal economy. I may be wrong, but I think in every state where the citizens were allowed to vote on same-sex marriage, it lost.
He can’t afford to lose any voters in any group. This doesn’t help him.
The only group this helps is the Gay-Lesbian agenda. Obama’s “support” to same-sex marriage further indoctrinates the public to the idea that homosexuality is acceptable and normal, that they are a noble, yet persecuted group - a group of high-minded Americans that are bullied and discriminated against by sour, hateful religious bigots.
I disagree too
There is nothing Obama could do short of personally lynching Oprah on live TV that would dissaude the black vote....be they dead or alive voters
His siren call so appeals to them as one half their homey
No one has ever had such a hypnotic power over tropical Africans on this continent...not Marcus Garvey or FDR or MLK or even Reconstruction Radical GOP.....has only to do with what he is
Pro? obama lewinskys for money?
I respect Rep. West greatly, but I seriously doubt it.
For some people, skin color is all that matters.
Problem is, elections aren't held on Sundays
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