Posted on 09/14/2012 9:24:45 PM PDT by zeestephen
According to the NBC and Wall Street Journal’s poll conducted in August of 2012, 0% – that’s “zero percent”, not a typo – of African-Americans support the GOP presidential candidate-to-be Mitt Romney in the presidential election of 2012.
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According to the NBC and Wall Street Journal’s poll conducted in August of 2012, 0% – that’s “zero percent”, not a typo – of African-Americans support the GOP presidential candidate-to-be Mitt Romney in the presidential election of 2012.
The media keeps suggesting that the racism regarding candidates has to do with whites not wanting to vote for a black man, even though Barack Obama won a presidential election with a great amount of white support – obviously – or he wouldn’t have won an election in the country where the vast majority of people are white.
What the media isn’t talking about is any survey such as the NBC-Wall Street results which say that there are basically no black supporters for the Caucasian candidate, Mitt Romney, in 2012. From August 16 through August 20, one-thousand people were surveyed and not even 1% of America’s blacks in that survey’s resulting data could say they support Mitt Romney.
Granted, African-Americans usually support the Democrats. But even the unpopular Republican candidate of 2008, Sen. John McCain, managed to come up with 4% support from America’s blacks. George W. Bush did even somewhat better than that.
Barack Obama currently has 94% of black Americans’ voters’ support. Obviously, a high percentage of white voters are supporting Obama too, or the currently-close presidential race wouldn’t be close at all. In other words, the reverse of this poll – which would say that 94% of white American voters support the white candidate, Mitt Romney – can’t possibly be true. After all, all the polls claim that Obama and Romney are running a close race at this time – though some say Obama is a couple of points up while one or two say Romney is a couple of points up.
So, if there is any racism in the 2012 election, it is clear where it’s coming from. What isn’t clear is why the media is afraid to capitalize on the story when they have been so willing to claim white racism at most every opportunity throughout the Obama term as president.
Another interesting point is questioning why the support for Obama among African-Americans is so strong. Black persons’ economics have reportedly worsened during the Obama administration over the past four years. The extremely poor unemployment rate among African-Americans has worsened during Obama’s term, as it is now estimated to be up to approximately 15%. The Obama economy has caused people’s need for federal assistance, such as food stamps, to increase to 50% of all Americans – with a great deal, but not a majority, of those in need being black persons. The housing situation in America which has had an extremely negative impact on minorities in this country is reportedly worse than it was in the mid-1930s during the Great Depression. Crime and murders in the big cities are still atrocious, quite often in the minority areas of those cities, such as in Obama’s own hometown of Chicago.
With all this factual data – not propaganda – created during President Obama’s term, it is incomprehensible to think that 94% of African-Americans are still supporting Obama and 0% is supporting Romney – unless one thinks like a racist and only vote for one’s own race.
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That’s not racism.
It’s racial solidarity...
Absolutely not true. I’m encountering black people just within my small circle of acquaintance who quietly admit that they are going to vote for Romney/Ryan. Many of them are from military families. Others are social conservatives. Still others are religious people who are horrified by the obsession with gay marriage and abortion; gayness especially is NOT something that’s accepted in the black community.
Now he is 100% Romney never voting Democrat again
Works for me.
Dividing of the sheep and the goats as described in Scripture is not an ethnic or racial measure..
That is simply not true.
Romney has many prominent black conservatives endorsing him.
Perhaps they’re just lying to the pollsters.
It’s not racism if minorities do it
Sorry-—my son’s best friend is black. He and his family can’t stand Obama and will not vote for him under any circumstances. I can’t believe they are the only blacks in the country who feel this way.
The Left and their allies in the MSM and the Liberals doing these polls are playing mind games. Case closed. I, for one, am not buying any of it.
Even in the Liberal la la land where I live, no one I talk to can stand Hussein nor are they voting RAT.
Romney was second to the last on the list for me w/ Huntsman at the bottom. Romney now says he’s pro-life and I have to believe him otherwise it’s Obama w/ abortions galore...
This is as believable as NASCAR folk favoring obama over Romney.
That's not American.
You are jumping to conclusions. They all support Obama, every one of them, because of reasons completely independent of race. Like the economy and his record on jobs.
The term “racism” was invented by communists. Leon Trotsky was one of the first to use it. When whites engage in favoritism toward other whites (and therefore discrimination against non-whites), it’s called “racism”. When other groups engage in favoritism, it’s called “ethnic solidarity”. When you buy into these word games, it’s called being a useful idiot.
Why do you have to believe him now? Why not believe him when he told Kennedy he was to the left of him on abortion? I don't believe him, I can't believe him--he's flipped too many times. Oh, and now he says Obama's a good guy. You believe that too?
I've had to deal with this in my own family. I almost got assaulted (by family) because I said Obama is bringing out the worst in everyone.
If 100% of whites voted for Romney in the same poll, it would have been international front page news.
I assume Black Americans vote the same way I do...
For the candidate who most closely represents my principles.
In the case of Black Americans, that would be the principles of European Socialism.
If Thomas Sowell ran for president, he wouldn't get more than 10% of the Black vote.
When Paul Ryan came on the ticket it made Romney a lot more digestable. They all say what a nice person Obama is...probably for fear of being called a racist.
" Couldn't agree more. If Romney had a "D" behind his name, (which he should), you'd hate him. He espouses the same policies but because he has an "R" behind his name he's on our team. Right?
But the people you know are not part the poll most likely.
I was at a tea party in 2010 and there was atall black man there holding a sign that said “Obama’s lying to you”
so there are black people who are not voting for Obama the same goes with hispanics. Now I am sure thre will be a large amount of those groups who will vote for him that’s a given.
It’s wonderful to see so many people on this thread talk about the African-Americans they know that are supporting Romney, but that doesn’t make it impossible for the poll to show 0%.
I’m sure the pollsters encountered some, too, but if they only found a small handful of them out of the 1000 surveyed, it is going to be indicated as 0%.
The media continues to separate people by race and then they call conservatives racist. People are people in my way of thinking and the media and democrats are the racists by trying to keep blacks in the same mindset forever. The mindset being that they are victims and need their help.
When I found out that Romney vetoed the Mass Dem legislature 800 times, I went looking for more information about his time as governor. He’s more conservative than I thought and it will be much easier voting for him than I anticipated.
Some of Mitt Romney’s critics have made irresponsible allegations with regard to Mitt’s record. Many, including the media, have failed to verify the factual basis for these claims and have continued to repeat them. WhyRomney.com is an independent website that debunks these claims and seeks to set the record straight.
False Claims Corrected:
Abortion
Amnesty
Bank Bailouts
Boy Scouts
Boy Scouts and Olympics
Bush Tax Cuts
Civil Unions
Death Penalty
Fees
Gay Marriage
Gay Rights
Global Warming
Illegal Aliens
Immigrants
Individual Mandates
Judicial Appointments
March with King, Jr
Minimum Wage
“Morning After” Pills
NRA
Ohio Ballot Measures
Paperback Changes
Ronald Reagan
Same-Sex Adoption
Social Security
State Troopers
Tax Burden in MA
Tax Loopholes
Timetables
Vietnam
Waiting Period for Guns
Youth Groups
I don’t know why people get all riled up (not you) when Romney or Ryan say Obama is a nice guy. First off it is almost always in response to the direct question from the media, who are hoping to get front page news if they answer with “no he is not a nice guy he is a communist fraud who hates America”. Better to deflect the question when asked directly and not use that as a launching pad. People need to slow their roll in Monday morning quarterbacking everything. Besides Romney flat out said Obama doesn’t tell the truth and Ryan has said things like that too. They just pick their spots. The never-ending craving for red meat around here with no concern for context or consequences is ridiculous.
I can’t believe how many posters here do not understand the concept of “rounding”: “0%” means less than 0.5%.
Okay? That means you daughter’s boyfriend’s black neighbor can support Romney, and the statistic can still be true.
That’s the left for you.... a great big mess of race war, class warfare, special interests and government dependent leeches.
I always tell people that the Republican party is the TRUE party of equality and civil rights.... absolutely no differences for people no matter what their color, gender, race or religion.
It is the party of Abe Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony.
Agree...
A representative sampling of Blacks would have been around 130 to 140.
If just 4 Blacks voted for Romney in this poll, that would be rounded down to 0%.
Americans believe their eyes. Did you not see the DNC Romney Kennedy clip? This isn’t 1982. Youtube makes liers out of cheerleaders.
Group think does apply with R’s as well. I wholeheartedly agree. Not with this Texan tho. Liberals exist on both sides of the fence. Just wish our nominee wasn’t one. My choice decided she wasn’t running.
See folks? Did you read this response? Hell no! It's always better to tell the truth? If you have to deflect/lie it only serves to hi-light your lack of a core. If you believe, I mean really believe in conservatism you should never have to hide it!
I’ve heard people rationalize it as blacks merely voting their interests. Aside from the fact that Democratic policies work to the detriment to most of any group, I would be called racist for pretending 95+ % of black people have the same interests. As if doctors and lawyers want the same things as unemployed hood rats.
Whose God did he believe in when he "severly" supported aborting Massachusetts's babies? Or should just ignore that because of the R thing?
“I was at a tea party...”
Remember when the MSM ran footage of a gunnut at one of those events strapped with an assualt rifle, but had to crop out his head and arms because they couldn’t let people believe even one of those radical extremists was black? Priceless.
Or was it that they felt people might be scared in the wrong way? As in, “Eeek! Blacks with guns!” instead of, “Eeek! Conservatives!”
As an aside, in 1960, when I was -10 (!) years old, my Mom voted for Kennedy because he was Catholic and she was Catholic and there had never been a Catholic President before. That was the one and only reason. Had Kennedy survived, she said her vote would have been for whomever ran against him because she realized she had voted for him for the wrong reason. I know there are blacks out there that voted Obama for “historic” reasons. And many have seen the error of their ways.
Just two examples off the top of my head are Allen West and JC Watts. This article is simply not credible.
Beyond this, Glenn Beck refers to this very poll back in August, where he has anecdotal evidence ("the sea of African-Americans who took to Twitter to express their support for Romney after feeling as if they were being ignored — or better yet, as if they don’t exist at all") that many African American CONSERVATIVES will be voting for Romney/Ryan (see Black Conservatives Make Their Voices Heard After Poll Shows Romney Support Among African-Americans at Zero Percent)
Of course it’s true. 0% in a poll that has a margin of error, and rounding, simply shows how extreme support for Obama is among one group but not that there are no counter examples.
I stayed respectful to you, please don’t call me a liar or a cheerleader. My list of preferred candidates started out with Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, etc, all the way down to Romney. Once he became the Republican candidate, I researched him more and was pleased to discover he is not the liberal Satan people portray him to be.
Regarding the youtube clip, I will decide on that once I can find the section prior to what he said as it is quite easy to take a brief piece of someone’s statement and make it seem more extreme than it is by removing the context before and after.
Regarding his actual actions relating to gay marriage, he fought it tooth and nail as governor. His actions and history contradict the “pro-homosexual” accusation I keep seeing.
I was just speaking for myself and why I felt I could support him.
Oh, you can believe it. In the pool of FReepers reading this, half have reading skills below average.
Now half of you will laugh and half will be offended without knowing quite why... Think about it.
I actually hate the term African-American. Those born in this country are Americans - period!! Why the hyphenated words? Just because some of their ancestors came from Africa, doesn’t make them African, only by descent. Why shouldn’t we all use a hyphenated name, such as German-American, Irish-American, etc. Its time to stop this nonsense. This is done to clearly identify those of a minority group.
By the way, I’m not sure I like the term black either. Some of those I’ve met have a very pretty brown skin color. Why not call themselves browns? See how silly all of this is?
Absolutely. Only white people can be racist. Black people who are prejudiced are only exhibiting “racial bias” (whatever the hell that means...)
I did not know that, that I was blaque, but I must me as I believe exactly as you do. Plus the fact that Mittens has five sons and not one of them served.
Even McCain managed to get 6% of the black vote in ‘08. These numbers are bogus.
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