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Is black support of Obama based only on race?
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail ^ | March 20, 2012 | Don Surber

Posted on 03/20/2012 6:40:21 AM PDT by Mustang Driver

Conventional wisdom hold that black support of Barack Obama is due solely to the color of his skin. I question that. To be sure, he received 95% of the black vote, but 4 years earlier, John Kerry received 89% of the black vote. That 6% difference is magnified by a noticeable increase in the black vote. But President Obama also received a slightly higher percentage of the white vote.

Maybe black people overall have a different view of government from white people do.

Maybe black people believe in the central government more because of their experience in the South in the 1960s when the federal government ended 100 years of Jim Crow law.

There also is the identification of slavery with capitalism. Overall, white people would reject that notion. But I can see that if I were black and a descendant of slaves, I might connect the two.

Perception is nine-tenths of the law in politics.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; blackvote; democratplantation; democrats; elections; nobama2012; obama; racism; yes
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To: massmike

At least 95% of the black vote will never abandon Obama because he’s black. Even so-called pubbies as Colin Powell & condi Rice have been suportive of him.


61 posted on 03/20/2012 11:40:29 AM PDT by kenmcg (How)
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To: Joe the Pimpernel

I think that the Dems are more Dem driven than race driven when it comes to a general election. I do not think they would cross over to vote for a black conservative Republican in a general election. But they clearly would vote for the black candidate in a Dem primary over the candidate of another race. IMHO that is why Obama rather than Hillary Clinton is currently sitting in the Oval office.Both are worthless but one had the good fortune to be born with darker pigmentation.


62 posted on 03/20/2012 11:43:19 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: All
"Is black support of Obama based only on race?"


63 posted on 03/20/2012 11:45:02 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Mustang Driver

Unfortunately true for some, but not for the intelligent! That goes for any color that your skin is.

Skin color should stop being an issue. Only liberals use and abuse it!

The color of your skin is not your race! I am getting so sick of it being used that way! I get very dark in the summer - this does not make me African American! And to add to that, not all dark skinned citizens are from the African descent! I am also sure there are many with lighter skin that can actually state that they are from African descendents! SOOOOO..... yeah!


64 posted on 03/20/2012 11:57:20 AM PDT by jcsjcm (This country was built on exceptionalism and individualism. In God we Trust - Laus Deo)
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To: Mustang Driver
No. Most are black democrat first, democrat second.

Unless you get into arguments about who is really "black" instead of "Oreo."

65 posted on 03/20/2012 12:37:14 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Time for brokered convention)
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To: Mustang Driver

95% is for sure.


66 posted on 03/20/2012 12:40:38 PM PDT by soycd
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To: DH

Two words.

Colin Powell


67 posted on 03/20/2012 12:47:18 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Solyent Pink is Sheeple!!!!)
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To: Mustang Driver
Is black support of Obama based only on race?

After the civil war (Great Migration (African American)), there was a renaissance of sorts in the African-American population that produced the likes of George Washington Carver, Scott Joplin, Elijah McCoy, Booker T. Washington, et. al.

If African-Americans vote the way the author suggests, it is because they were taught to do so, after the New Great Migration.

Also see Segregated economic life and education for more on the gains in post-Civil War African-American society.

-PJ

68 posted on 03/20/2012 1:03:22 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
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To: Mustang Driver
Some very instructive parallels in this article:
"For example, had McCain won a third of the African-American vote in 2008, he would have carried North Carolina, Indiana, Florida, Ohio and Virginia...Bush would have defeated John Kerry by a 337-200 margin with one-third of the African-American vote..."-- Cain, the GOP and Black Vote, RealClearPolitics.com"

Bobo's cadre has said they're running the Kerry map in 2012. And in fact, their defeat will look much like his...notably, the GOP nom doesn't need 1/3rd of the black vote. Just need turnout to return to 2004 levels, a mere 5% drop. And it will.

69 posted on 03/20/2012 1:20:58 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (=)
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To: No Surrender No Retreat

not because of being black, but because of his ‘stash’.


70 posted on 03/20/2012 1:24:51 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (How about those Devils and Rangers? 3 fights no waiting!)
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To: Mustang Driver
I don't believe the percentage tells the real story. Blacks came out in huge numbers in 08 to vote for a African American.

Census.gov:

" About 131 million people reported voting in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, an increase of 5 million from 2004, according to a new table package released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. The increase included about 2 million more black voters, 2 million more Hispanic voters and about 600,000 more Asian voters, while the number of non-Hispanic white voters remained statistically unchanged."
71 posted on 03/20/2012 1:32:46 PM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: Mustang Driver

Actually, no. 95% of blacks will vote for the Democrat no matter what, regardless of who they are. They’ve been indoctrinated.


72 posted on 03/20/2012 1:54:08 PM PDT by PAConservative1
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To: Mustang Driver

Excuse me Tom Surber, but where the hell have you been the last 20+years. Have you nothing better to do than to go around asking obvious questions? Your headline might as well have said “Does the sun rise in the east and set in the west”? Pff


73 posted on 03/20/2012 2:04:44 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: kabar

“No, it is not soley based on race. Blacks have been the Dems most loyal constituency. They walk lock-step in support of the liberal ideology and anyone who strays loses their standing and race.”

No, not _solely_ “on race”. But…

Just as roughtly 95% (or more) of blacks are going to vote for Obama again, roughly 95% of their reasoning for doing so will be based on his race.

Solely? Of course not!


74 posted on 03/20/2012 2:07:19 PM PDT by Road Glide
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To: Road Glide
No the vast majority will vote for any Dem at the top of the ticket. It matters not the race of the candidate. So instead of voting 90% for the Dem, an additional 5% will vote for Obama because he is black.

Ask Michael (Oreo) Steele, Lynn Swann, etc. how much of the black vote they received. Party is by far more important to blacks than race in terms of how they vote.

75 posted on 03/20/2012 2:56:50 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar
No the vast majority will vote for any Dem at the top of the ticket. It matters not the race of the candidate. So instead of voting 90% for the Dem, an additional 5% will vote for Obama because he is black.

True.

76 posted on 03/20/2012 3:02:55 PM PDT by x
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To: Mustang Driver

Yep


77 posted on 03/20/2012 5:47:23 PM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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To: Westbrook

Cain still can play that role this election cycle, just not as the candidate.


78 posted on 03/20/2012 7:49:19 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: kabar

Absolutely RIGHT-ON!!! My Brother was talking about voting for Obama because he was black. I asked him if he would have voted for Condolesa Rice...NO. I named a couple of other black Republicans...NO...NO. I told him then that those answers proved he did NOT vote for Obama because he was black but that he voted for him because he was a DemocRAT. That was the end of that conversation.


79 posted on 03/20/2012 8:12:04 PM PDT by gooleyman ( What about the baby's "RIGHT TO CHOOSE"?????? I bet the baby would chose LIFE.)
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To: kabar

Absolutely RIGHT-ON!!! My Brother was talking about voting for Obama because he was black. I asked him if he would have voted for Condolesa Rice...NO. I named a couple of other black Republicans...NO...NO. I told him then that those answers proved he did NOT vote for Obama because he was black but that he voted for him because he was a DemocRAT. That was the end of that conversation.


80 posted on 03/20/2012 8:12:20 PM PDT by gooleyman ( What about the baby's "RIGHT TO CHOOSE"?????? I bet the baby would chose LIFE.)
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