Posted on 09/28/2004 5:42:17 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Over the past few months, an important segment of Black voters have been moving away from John Kerry and toward President Bush. While the headlines tell us that Gallup has once again found President Bush leading by a solid 52/44 margin among likely voters, the real story of this poll is being smothered by the media. The actual story is that there is an absolutely unmistakable trend of Black voters moving toward George Bush and away from John Kerry. Going back to mid July, we started to see poll internals that had Kerry getting just 80% of the Black vote. This is of course a death sentence for any Democratic candidate for the presidency. Then for weeks we heard nothing about the intentions of this group. Finally the CBS/Times poll released on September 11th whispered that same number. Blacks were supporting Kerry at just 80%, there was no upward movement for Kerry. Now comes today's Gallup News release including the internals. They are devistating for Kerry. They show George Bush getting 30% of the "non white" vote. Try as they might, the media can't hide the fact that in this context, "non white" means Black. Gallup tells us that the trend has been there for at least a month. Since the end of August, the President's numbers have improved, with this group, by 7 points. Gallup now tells us that he will get 30% and that just for weeks ago he was at 23%. There is definately something happening here. The media appearently thinks they can ignore it to death. They are very wrong.
I was also surprised to see Don King campaigning for Bush.
Not to mention, Blacks aren't going to be excited to go to the polls and vote for Kerry, a person they can't relate to and really don't care for.
Nope, not at all. What's shocking is that there are Dems who are surprised that they aren't inspired by a moneyed, haughty, northeastern liberal.
Bill Clinton? Sure, but John Kerry?
Of course, if Kerry had, I don't know, at least ONE black senior advisor, that might help, too.
Gee, guess I need another cup of coffee this morning...lol.
Hey!
James Carville comes from Louisiana and has met many black people in his life. Isn't that good enough for you Republican bloodsuckers?
If he's not doing that, then a lot of potential fraud might not occur, since the real places of concern are the inner city districts.
BUMP
Isn't non-white also Asian and Latino? So 30% of that vote doesn't mean 30% black..unless I am missing something.
You are correct. I've seen numbers previously on non-white total in 2000, but I can't find it. 30% is still excellent performance (relatively).
You make a good point, but I am always puzzled that they turned out so well for algore since he was every bit as effeminate as Kerry is.
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