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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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: NCjim

OJ. Obummer. Some people share one brain cell.


41 posted on 10/27/2011 5:22:09 AM PDT by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: Tyrone13

Sure they will. I call it Michael Jackson syndrome. And ayone that thinks they will switch to Cain is kidding themselves.


42 posted on 10/27/2011 5:24:19 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: NCjim

Useless garbage from the Democrats’ Propaganda Ministry. If the reporters talked to someone who said, “No, I’m not voting for that dimwitted a-hole again ... Herman Cain is black, too!” the NYT would never print it.


43 posted on 10/27/2011 5:27:48 AM PDT by Tax-chick (You can tell them I just sailed away.)
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To: NCjim

I suspect this woman is terrified that Cain might tap into Obama’s black base which is why she’s writing this article.


44 posted on 10/27/2011 5:28:25 AM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: NCjim

Breaking: Water wet


45 posted on 10/27/2011 5:39:03 AM PDT by VTenigma
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To: Siena Dreaming
I suspect this woman is terrified that Cain might tap into Obama’s black base which is why she’s writing this article.

Agree.

46 posted on 10/27/2011 5:47:14 AM PDT by Shelayne
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To: NCjim

As we all know by now, it’s perfectly all right in America to be a blatant and unapologetic racist, provided only that your skin is black.


47 posted on 10/27/2011 5:48:42 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: NCjim

They belong to the Borg collective.


48 posted on 10/27/2011 6:26:21 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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To: New Jersey Realist

49 posted on 10/27/2011 6:30:16 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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To: New Jersey Realist

My bad!


50 posted on 10/27/2011 6:31:11 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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To: Sacajaweau

I disagree, the *Thrill is gone*. I don’t, for one minute, think they’ll vote for Cain, they just won’t vote. Period.


51 posted on 10/27/2011 6:33:29 AM PDT by Tyrone13
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To: NCjim

DUH!


52 posted on 10/27/2011 6:41:59 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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53 posted on 10/27/2011 6:54:02 AM PDT by onyx (You're here on FR, so support it! Compiling New Sarah Ping List. Let me know if you want on it.)
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To: NCjim
Some of the slaves are running away.


54 posted on 10/27/2011 6:57:15 AM PDT by listenhillary (Look your representatives in the eye and ask if they intend to pay off the debt. They will look away)
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To: Ken522

No surprise here.

If Obama killed and ate a nursery full of babies they would still support him.

One thing you have to say about blacks, they stick together.

If whites would do the same, blacks would still be harvesting cotton. It wasn’t a black uprising that freed the slaves, it was whites who saw their plight and saved them from it.


55 posted on 10/27/2011 7:09:18 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Ken522

Another $5,500 unreported services in kind campaign contribution from Helene Cooper and The New York Times.


56 posted on 10/27/2011 8:14:35 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (To punish a province let it be ruled by a professor Fredrick The Great paraphrased)
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To: NCjim

Malik. “I never voted at all before 2008.” That says it all about the mentality of the typical Obama voter.


57 posted on 10/27/2011 8:28:29 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: NCjim

You can’t fix “stupid”.


58 posted on 10/27/2011 8:45:08 AM PDT by Gritty (Obama is not America's king. He doesn't believe he needs authority,only noble intentions-D. Limbaugh)
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To: NCjim

NOT unexpected.


59 posted on 10/27/2011 8:53:01 AM PDT by liberalh8ter
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