Posted on 03/20/2012 6:40:21 AM PDT by Mustang Driver
Conventional wisdom hold that black support of Barack Obama is due solely to the color of his skin. I question that. To be sure, he received 95% of the black vote, but 4 years earlier, John Kerry received 89% of the black vote. That 6% difference is magnified by a noticeable increase in the black vote. But President Obama also received a slightly higher percentage of the white vote.
Maybe black people overall have a different view of government from white people do.
Maybe black people believe in the central government more because of their experience in the South in the 1960s when the federal government ended 100 years of Jim Crow law.
There also is the identification of slavery with capitalism. Overall, white people would reject that notion. But I can see that if I were black and a descendant of slaves, I might connect the two.
Perception is nine-tenths of the law in politics.
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At least 95% of the black vote will never abandon Obama because he’s black. Even so-called pubbies as Colin Powell & condi Rice have been suportive of him.
I think that the Dems are more Dem driven than race driven when it comes to a general election. I do not think they would cross over to vote for a black conservative Republican in a general election. But they clearly would vote for the black candidate in a Dem primary over the candidate of another race. IMHO that is why Obama rather than Hillary Clinton is currently sitting in the Oval office.Both are worthless but one had the good fortune to be born with darker pigmentation.
Unfortunately true for some, but not for the intelligent! That goes for any color that your skin is.
Skin color should stop being an issue. Only liberals use and abuse it!
The color of your skin is not your race! I am getting so sick of it being used that way! I get very dark in the summer - this does not make me African American! And to add to that, not all dark skinned citizens are from the African descent! I am also sure there are many with lighter skin that can actually state that they are from African descendents! SOOOOO..... yeah!
Unless you get into arguments about who is really "black" instead of "Oreo."
95% is for sure.
Two words.
Colin Powell
After the civil war (Great Migration (African American)), there was a renaissance of sorts in the African-American population that produced the likes of George Washington Carver, Scott Joplin, Elijah McCoy, Booker T. Washington, et. al.
If African-Americans vote the way the author suggests, it is because they were taught to do so, after the New Great Migration.
Also see Segregated economic life and education for more on the gains in post-Civil War African-American society.
-PJ
"For example, had McCain won a third of the African-American vote in 2008, he would have carried North Carolina, Indiana, Florida, Ohio and Virginia...Bush would have defeated John Kerry by a 337-200 margin with one-third of the African-American vote..."-- Cain, the GOP and Black Vote, RealClearPolitics.com"
Bobo's cadre has said they're running the Kerry map in 2012. And in fact, their defeat will look much like his...notably, the GOP nom doesn't need 1/3rd of the black vote. Just need turnout to return to 2004 levels, a mere 5% drop. And it will.
not because of being black, but because of his ‘stash’.
Actually, no. 95% of blacks will vote for the Democrat no matter what, regardless of who they are. They’ve been indoctrinated.
Excuse me Tom Surber, but where the hell have you been the last 20+years. Have you nothing better to do than to go around asking obvious questions? Your headline might as well have said “Does the sun rise in the east and set in the west”? Pff
“No, it is not soley based on race. Blacks have been the Dems most loyal constituency. They walk lock-step in support of the liberal ideology and anyone who strays loses their standing and race.”
No, not _solely_ “on race”. But…
Just as roughtly 95% (or more) of blacks are going to vote for Obama again, roughly 95% of their reasoning for doing so will be based on his race.
Solely? Of course not!
Ask Michael (Oreo) Steele, Lynn Swann, etc. how much of the black vote they received. Party is by far more important to blacks than race in terms of how they vote.
True.
Yep
Cain still can play that role this election cycle, just not as the candidate.
Absolutely RIGHT-ON!!! My Brother was talking about voting for Obama because he was black. I asked him if he would have voted for Condolesa Rice...NO. I named a couple of other black Republicans...NO...NO. I told him then that those answers proved he did NOT vote for Obama because he was black but that he voted for him because he was a DemocRAT. That was the end of that conversation.
Absolutely RIGHT-ON!!! My Brother was talking about voting for Obama because he was black. I asked him if he would have voted for Condolesa Rice...NO. I named a couple of other black Republicans...NO...NO. I told him then that those answers proved he did NOT vote for Obama because he was black but that he voted for him because he was a DemocRAT. That was the end of that conversation.
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