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Where are you all getting this tripe that with the exception of 2008 a Black candidate will get a huge turnout? Provide the articles or statistics on this. If you all would just leave it at Democratic candidate your point would be valid, but this BS about high voter turnout because of race is BS. Again if that was the case, there will be more BLACKS in Congress and the Senate.
What are you talking about?
It was about getting the first black president in office in 2008. Period.
I continue to be baffled by this topic. Its like weird cycle. Somebody will start a thread talking about how blacks vote for Obama because he is black, we tell them that we always vote democrat and the stats prove that, yet they ignore them and continue to say we vote for obama because he is black. Seriously this is the conversation:
Republican: Hey, why do black people vote for obama because he is black?
AA: We don't vote for him because he is black, we vote for democrats
Republican: Than why did he he get 95% of the vote?
AA: Well democrats typically get 85 to 95% of the black vote
Republican:.....ok I'm just ignore that stat, and assume you vote for obama because he is black
AA: sits there confused by the conversation s/he just had.
So explain why the black support for Hillary collapsed after Obama won Iowa in 2008.
It was icing on the cake to have a candidate who was both black and liberal....does that satisfy your talking point? A conservative Republican black candidate would've been lucky to get even a third of the black vote (the same minority who wanted Clarence Thomas on the USSC, simply because he would be a black face on the court).
how many threads are we going to have about this???? Blacks, OVERWHELMINGLY,(OVER 90%) support WHOMEVER the Democratic nominee is...it doesnt matter the color!!! for the Umpteenth TIME...geesh!!!
No Obama, may have gotten 98% as opposed to the normal 95%, due to identity politics, but trust me, if Hillary, Biden, Cuomo, etc decides to run in 2016, Blacks will overwhelmingly vote for that person.
Alot of people have been voting according to what they think is best for their race for a long time. It happens today, because the reality is, this nation hasn't been truly united. People often look out for themselves, and no one else.
Alot of people have been voting according to what they think is best for their race for a long time. It happens today, because the reality is, this nation hasn't been truly united. People often look out for themselves, and no one else.
Only minorities seem to do that. I am white and I don't care what race a politican is I only vote for someone based on how they view the issues.
Do whites support Romney because he's white? In short, yes.
So whites are race based but blacks are not?
Ummm....O.K.
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