[buccaneer81]

Cain’s claim is unusual because he has made no special effort to appeal directly to black voters.

Typical leftist media and Democrat thinking...minorities must be pandered to in order to gain their votes.

Cain is smarter than that. He's banking on the blacks who will see him for what he is, not empty promises.

GWB got 11% of the black vote in 2004; there's no reason to think Cain couldn't get 15-20%. I'll guarantee this: None of the other Republicans would get more than 7% (and that may be optimistic.)

[cripplecreek]

He doesn’t have to get huge numbers of black votes to win in places like Michigan. Just pulling 2 or 3 percent more than Mitt Romney could end Romney’s race.

Obviously the race against Obama would be tougher but his chances against Obama here are better than anyone else.