Obama makes late push for black voters (reunion with Jeremiah Wright)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/20/12 | Willie Brown

[markomalley]

As we roll into the final presidential debate, the polls show a very tight race. One thing they don't show, however, is how race is a factor in the election.

By my estimate, you have to build in a three- to five-point slip from the poll numbers for any black candidate on election day. To overcome the slip, you need to pump up the black vote by equal measure.

And that's not easy, because brothers and sisters aren't among the top turnout groups.

In 2008, Barack Obama was able to compensate for the slip and then some. You would have thought it was Nelson Mandela coming out of jail. This time it's not going to be that easy.

If Obama looks as if he's going black, he could turn off white people. So he's largely been lying low on the race issues - visibly pushing for the Latino vote, the gay vote, the women's vote, but not the black vote.

But last weekend, he held a conference call with a collection of black preachers that included his old pastor, Jeremiah Wright. He wanted to talk to them about getting out the vote.

[markomalley]

What does Jeremiah Wright think about men putting their penis in another man’s ass?

You mean, Jeremiah Wright, retired pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ?

I think the above screenshot should answer your question.

[radu]

Apparently Obamarx isn’t accounting for the black preachers who are urging their congregations to vote for Romney, or not vote at all. He really ticked them off with his stance on gay marriage.