Posted on 01/16/2008 7:56:32 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
A funny thing happened on the way to the wife of America's first black president being coronated: more than twice as many African-Americans voted for "Mr. Uncommitted" as Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in Tuesday's Michigan primary.
Clearly, the recent racial sparring between the Clintons and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has not helped Hillary in the black community.
As reported by the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder:
Exit polls show backlash against Hillary Clinton among black voters... Almost 70% of black voters in the Dem sample chose uncommitted and only 25% chose Clinton. (She's leading overall -- beating uncommitted by, like, 40 points)... Remember: Michigan's Dem primary doesn't matter b/c Clinton's name is the only one on the ballot and there are no delegates, but one can read these numbers as a sign of trouble for her among black voters.
Michigan Live reported early Wednesday morning (emphasis added):
As election returns came in Tuesday, it was clear to a group gathered to support Illinois Sen. Barack Obama in downtown Grand Rapids their push to get voters to check "uncommitted" resonated in West Michigan, if not statewide.
Sen. Hillary Clinton won Michigan's Democratic primary with 55 percent of the vote, and 40 percent voting uncommitted.
[...]
NBC News exit polling found 73 percent of uncommitted voters favored Obama with 17 percent saying they backed Edwards.
Backing that up, precincts with predominantly black voters in Grand Rapids -- as in Detroit -- overwhelmingly voted uncommitted. In Grand Rapids, "uncommitted" beat Clinton in almost every precinct in the city's diverse 3rd Ward.
The big question moving forward is how much attention mainstream media will give to Mr. Uncommitted's success with black voters in Michigan, and, will they report some other not so Hillary-favorable results from this primary such as:
Mr. Uncommitted did very well with young voters edging out Hillary in the 18-24-year-old demographic 48 to 44% Mr. Uncommitted beat Hillary 49 to 47% with high-income earners Mr. Uncommitted fared better with voters as their level of education increased. Amongst college graduates, the vote was virtually tied at Hillary 47 and Uncommitted 46%. With no degree, Hillary won 60 to 36%. Those with a post-graduate degree favored Uncommitted 50 to 44% Independents favored Mr. Uncommitted over Hillary by a margin of 51 to 37% Of course, the major media outlets will be sure to share all this information with their patrons.
I went to an Uncommitted rally once; he seems like a decent guy.
“in the city’s diverse 3rd Ward”
Lib-speak at its finest! “Diverse” here means “few to no white people”
I heard he was very clean looking and quite articulate.
I thought she was married to “Mr. Uncommitted”?
Thats a stunning percentage.
The black vote really turned on the Clinton’s especially when you consider that Usama Obama isn’t a “REAL” black.
No. He wouldn’t commit.
Yeah, I find that hillarious.
I once saw an article where they said, in the same sentence, “80% minority...most diverse”.
“Diverse”, to a lib, ALWAYS means “non-white”.
So the more people know, the less they like Hillarius.
Sadly, there is a huge stupid population out there.
In South carolina no one thinks that Obama will get more than 20 percent of the White votes. And if Hillary can get more than 20 percent of the black votes she will win by a significant margin.
45 percent of the Demoratic voters in South Carolina are black.
I’s a-jess wonderin’, Colonel.
Iffin the white-guilt crackers on the liberal side kin get the word “lynch” -used in any context- to infer an insult to the black culture, mebees us-all kin get the word “diverse” to mean “eliminate whitey”?
Whachyall think?
Crud! Mixed MrB up with another poster on another thread.
MrB, y’all is “colonel” in my previous post...
I get depressed on the state of the stupidity rampant in the Republican Party. But then there are stories like this which shows once again the Democratic Party is stupider.
Even iffin’ ya cud do that, it wudn’t matter one lick.
Remember, minorities can’t be racist, according to the REVuhrund JAAAHxon,
because they lack the power to implement their racism.
If it is OK and even good for Blacks to vote 80% against a white person then it should be fine for a white populaces to vote 80% for white just because they are white, right? /s
But, but, the Clinton’s were 100% black LONG before Obama was born! This is irrational! These folks are Uncle Tom’s for betraying one of their own and voting for Obama. He’s only 50% black.
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