What portion of the 97% of blacks who voted for him do you suppose would vote differently today?
97% of the black voting age population that constitutes about TWELVE percent of the US Population doesn’t amount to any kind of majority, especially a majority that somewhere down the line, everyone is fantasizing would be willing to engage in a “race war” with non-Blacks. I’d remind you, NO ONE is benefiting much from Obama’s (non) Policies, least of all blacks, least of all Blacks already in the middle or upper middle classes.......of course, they’re trying to revive Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac all over again, and I guess they see that as something that could establish a foothold of goodwill once more for Obama amongst poor, non-house-owning blacks. HOWEVER, the numbers aren’t there, no matter how anyone might want to inflate them, and Blacks didn’t constitute the swing vote a year ago, and they won’t both in this November’s election, and the one 3 years from now.Of course, it was already considered a fait accompli that Obama the candidate would get just that kind of crushingly lopsided black vote for himself, and the Party: that’s part of the reason he became the Party nominee.
And to get back answering your first question, point-blank, yeah, my instincts tell me Obama has , for all practical purposes already lost a good 15% of that imaginary “black mandate”.