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Black Voters’ Support for Obama Is Steady and Strong
New York Times ^ | October 26, 2011 | Helene Cooper

Posted on 10/27/2011 3:47:33 AM PDT by NCjim

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Abdul Malik seems the prototype of a disenchanted Barack Obama voter.

Mr. Malik, 48, lost his job as a grading and landscape worker a year and a half ago, another victim of the housing bust. Since then, he has been searching for something, anything, to help make ends meet.

Yet, Mr. Malik, who is black, says he has every intention of again voting for President Obama next year. So does Bobby Hart, 46, a former construction worker here. And Dorothy Artis of Greensboro, N.C., who is looking for a job to help support her grandchildren while her daughter is deployed in Kuwait. And Larry Bennett, who worked for 27 years at Cooper Industries before he lost his job when his division moved out of state.

“I don’t blame Obama,” said Mr. Malik, who had never voted before 2008. “I don’t blame him at all.”

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To: NCjim

They *support* him, but I doubt very seriously they’ll be voting for him in the numbers compared to the first go around.


21 posted on 10/27/2011 4:26:23 AM PDT by Tyrone13
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To: Ken522

“A irresistible force (truth) meets an immovable object (racial pride) ... “

So true, but no matter how you phrase it (e.g. ‘racial pride’) it’s still a matter of racism, although you will never hear it called that in polite company. If black unemployment was as high as it is now, but we had a Caucasian president, what would be the reaction if there was an article in the NYT extolling that ‘White Voters’ Support of ‘white guy president’ Is Steady and Strong?


22 posted on 10/27/2011 4:26:36 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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Plantation racism is alive and well.


23 posted on 10/27/2011 4:27:00 AM PDT by mcmuffin ("Wanting your country back is not the same thing as working to take it back." JB Williams, Patriot U)
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To: NCjim

The question is, will they bother to vote in multiple precincts like in 2008. I doubt that this go round.


24 posted on 10/27/2011 4:29:44 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: NCjim

You buy them books, you send them to school, and they eat the pages.


25 posted on 10/27/2011 4:30:45 AM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: hal ogen

Remember th3e moron who said (you tube)that she was voting for Ostupid because if he wins, “I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage or putting gas in my car”


26 posted on 10/27/2011 4:31:16 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: hal ogen
2008 was the first time I didn't vote for the black guy in the POTUS election.

Having voted in 9 POTUS elections, they can hardly call it racist based on a percentage of votes.

That makes just as much sense as the libtard arguments.

27 posted on 10/27/2011 4:31:32 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: NCjim

WWMD?

What would Martin Do?


28 posted on 10/27/2011 4:32:00 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..posted from the great river road)
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To: Beagle8U

At least you had voted previously. This the first time in her life she bothered to vote.


29 posted on 10/27/2011 4:34:13 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Tyrone13

That’s the way I look at it as well.

Glenn Beck did a couple of shows with an audience of black conservatives and probably 80% said that they voted for Obama because they felt that they needed to vote for a black man. Those people aren’t voting for Obama again.

Seems that a lot of them had hopes of getting rid of the whole race issue for good by voting for a black man. While I didn’t vote for him, I had faint hope that having a black president would help kill the whole race issue. Obviously it didn’t.


30 posted on 10/27/2011 4:38:24 AM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: 101voodoo
Remember th3e moron who said (you tube)that she was voting for Ostupid because if he wins, “I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage or putting gas in my car”

But in her case she was probably right.

He has so tanked the economy she probably lost both her house and car and so does not have to worry about the mortgage and the gas.

31 posted on 10/27/2011 4:42:08 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: NCjim

So why didn’t the NY Times do an article about white voters still steady and strong for Bill Clinton in 1996?

Nothing like a little racism in the morning...


32 posted on 10/27/2011 4:45:59 AM PDT by DB
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To: cripplecreek
Glenn Beck did a couple of shows with an audience of black conservatives and probably 80% said that they voted for Obama because they felt that they needed to vote for a black man. Those people aren’t voting for Obama again.

My belief is that racism is so deeply ingrained in at least 95% (my estimate) of the black population that those so-called black conservatives will still vote for "The One" because they will not be able to see past his skin color.

They were stupid and racist in 2008 why should we think they will do anything different even though the Country is in ruins. Race trumps our Constitution, freedoms and liberties with a vast majority of blacks.

Maybe I am just jaded because I have to live and work around the DC area.

33 posted on 10/27/2011 4:48:08 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: mcmuffin

In case anyone wonders why Obama, raised completely by whites and a liberal Harvard snob, often talks in a phoney black dialect, well here is the self serving racial politics reason.


34 posted on 10/27/2011 4:54:03 AM PDT by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: NCjim

Cain will pick up 15 to 25% of the black vote.


35 posted on 10/27/2011 4:56:53 AM PDT by WellyP (REAL)
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To: WellyP

Black Voters are the dumbest voters in the World.


36 posted on 10/27/2011 4:58:29 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: Beagle8U

That means conservatives didn’t vote.


37 posted on 10/27/2011 4:59:16 AM PDT by hocndoc (WingRight.org Have mustard seed:Will use. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending, now,now,now!)
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To: hocndoc

Either that, or there were more black votes cast than there are blacks of voting age.


38 posted on 10/27/2011 5:04:05 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: NCjim

Is Obama Black?

Pray for America


39 posted on 10/27/2011 5:14:46 AM PDT by bray (Join the Cain Mutiny, tell the IRS 9-9-9!)
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To: NCjim

Dealer, give me your half Negro and we’ll raise you a half Negro. (Imagine a card game of race baiting between Republicans and Democrats).


40 posted on 10/27/2011 5:17:48 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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