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Has Support for Gays Cost Obama the Black Vote?
Speigel Online International ^ | 5/31/12 | Marc Hujer

Posted on 06/01/2012 9:33:12 AM PDT by SaraJohnson

By openly supporting gay marriage, US President Barack Obama has offended many of the country's African-Americans, who number among his most loyal supporters. Several of the community's religious leaders have even called on their congregations to withhold the support that will be crucial to his re-election.

(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gaymarriage; obama
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1 posted on 06/01/2012 9:33:21 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

Pointless diversionism. Support will not change - immutable.


2 posted on 06/01/2012 9:35:05 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SaraJohnson

Stupid Headline!

How about, “Will Obama’s Support for Gay Marriage Reduce the Black Vote From 98% to 96%?”

He certainly won’t “lose” the black vote. I’ll stop commenting at that point.


3 posted on 06/01/2012 9:37:36 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (With regards to the GOP: I am prodisestablishmentarianistic!)
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To: SaraJohnson

Obama could put on a white dress and marry Larry Sinclair with Michelle as his best man and his daughters as bridesmaids and not lose a single black vote.

It’s a funny world socialists live in.


4 posted on 06/01/2012 9:37:59 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: SaraJohnson

I equate this with the catholic Bishops in a huff about forced Contraceptive Insurance.

The Catholic Bishops pushed Socialism about health care until it bit them.

The Black Bishops pushed Obama and now he has bit them.

Catholics will not fight for their Church and Blacks will not fight for their Bishops.

Both the Catholic Democrats and the Black Obama rank and file will vote for Obama anyway.


5 posted on 06/01/2012 9:39:28 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Gaffer

For blacks it’s not politics, it’s personal. He is them. If you call him a failure you are calling them failures and so you are a racist.

Some Americans weren’t ready for a black President.


6 posted on 06/01/2012 9:39:51 AM PDT by DManA
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To: mrsmith

Hahahaha!


7 posted on 06/01/2012 9:40:44 AM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them)
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To: SaraJohnson

But..but..I saw an article that clearly showed (in an instant!) that majority of Blacks now support homosexuality.


8 posted on 06/01/2012 9:40:44 AM PDT by Thorliveshere
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To: SaraJohnson
HA!! The first Black Brutha President is a 'mo

Let's drive that home


9 posted on 06/01/2012 9:41:31 AM PDT by Mr. K (I AM WRITING-IN PALIN/GINGRICH)
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To: SaraJohnson

The only way Obama will lose the black vote is if he switches parties.


10 posted on 06/01/2012 9:41:41 AM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: SaraJohnson

Get REAL!! He could KILL another black man on the White House lawn and they would STILL vote for him!! COLOR is BLINDING!!


11 posted on 06/01/2012 9:41:46 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SaraJohnson

The only way Romney’s going to get more than 1% of the black vote is to pick a black VP. Then he might get 2%.


12 posted on 06/01/2012 9:42:32 AM PDT by DManA
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To: SaraJohnson

I sure HOPE so!


13 posted on 06/01/2012 9:46:30 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SaraJohnson

I dunno. King Louie expressed his disaproval over Hussein’s flip-flop.

And militant black racists are a huge part of the Obama Plantation.

So maybe Zerobama will lose a fraction of a percent or two.

Maybe.


14 posted on 06/01/2012 9:47:33 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Venturer

“Both the Catholic Democrats and the Black Obama rank and file will vote for Obama anyway.”

There is nothing that will convince the hard core democRats not to vote for Obozo or any rat.

They never allow religion, race, morality, patriotism or anything to stop them from voting for their beloved Rats.


15 posted on 06/01/2012 9:52:03 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: SaraJohnson

Lose voters? Maybe a couple of percent - Maybe.

Lose support & enthusiasm? Yes


16 posted on 06/01/2012 9:57:31 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: SaraJohnson

No more than it will cost hussein the Catholic vote. Expect next to zero change in voting.


17 posted on 06/01/2012 9:58:49 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Grampa Dave

I don’t think any of the black people who voted for him last time will vote for Romney, but I do believe a a % of them, maybe 1% will stay home because of this issue.


18 posted on 06/01/2012 9:59:51 AM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: SaraJohnson

When skin color trumps everything else... then hell no... it will not cost him very much in the way of the black vote.

LLS


19 posted on 06/01/2012 10:00:55 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: SaraJohnson

The only way Obama MIGHT lose the black vote is if he demands that they take responsibility for their own actions and demands that they get to work. Of course he would convert to Christianity before THAT ever happens.


20 posted on 06/01/2012 10:02:00 AM PDT by crosshairs
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