Lonestar_logic
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97% of blacks voted for Obama! If that was reversed, we would never here the end of it -like slavery. It proves that blacks are indeed the most racist group in America, and therefore the dumbest !
This is mostly conservatives complaining about why they cant get a serious look from black Americans and break up the demographic firewall that Obama has because of overwhelming support from blacks and Latinos. It would be too psychologically difficult to blame their decades old problem with black and brown voters on an ideology that is anti-affirmative action, anti-choice, anti-the social safety net, pro-voter ID, pro-tax breaks for the wealthy, pro demonizing of welfare and accepting of birtherism.
A party that engages in what many have called the Southern Strategy 2.0, which means trying to attract poor whites through enraging them via coded racist appeals like the Obama is removing the work requirement from welfare claim that was widely debunked but still remained at the heart of a Romney ad.
But instead of looking at the Republican ideology and realizing that it is hostile to blacks, they call blacks racist for their supposedly thoughtless skin-color-based support of Obama. An August poll showed Obama leading Romney among blacks 94% to 0%, but this is hardly an historical outlier.
Al Gore won 90% of the black vote in 2000 and John Kerry won 88% in 2004. Obama won 95% in 2008.Instead, the idea that blacks support Obama just because hes black is itself racist because it suggests a lack of political sophistication and brain power, as if blacks would vote for anyone who shares their skin color, even though most blacks didnt support Herman Cain, Allen West, Alan Keyes and dont respect Clarence Thomas. And the question ignores the nuances of reality. Yes Obamas PARTIAL blackness is part of why many blacks support him.
Another reason is Obamas policies: saving Detroit, supporting universal health care, and fighting to protect the social safety net and a womans right to choose will win lots of black votes. But if we like a candidate because we like him personally, i.e., feel a kinship with him because of a feeling of shared culture, and because we like his policies.
That appears to be very much like the calculus many voters use in their decision of who to support...........
With the exception of those sheep who voted against their own self interest simply because Obama happens to be black.
Comparing democrats to republicans isn't a fair comparison. Everyone knows blacks vote primarily democratic and everyone knows why. It's what they can get for free forgetting the democrats were against the civil rights act and home to the KKK.
If you want a true comparison, compare the democratic primaries where you had a black candidate and a white candidate for example Hillary and Obama, both democrats but who got the vast majority of the black vote?
Hint: it wasn't the white girl.