One of my black friends on twitter tells me that she voted for Obama in 08 because she got caught up in the hype of it. She didn’t love Romney but voted for him in 2012.
I had a black friend I worked with in CA, big Democrat, that voted for Bush in 2004 because some Dems (I think Charlie Rangel) wanted to bring back the draft. Of course they (Dems)thought if would help them, but it backfired. She asked me not to disclose her secret.
I’ve had several gay friends that vote Republican because they don’t like paying high taxes, but they don’t want it to be known either.