- Thread starter
- #41
4. According to records, 93% of the black vote went for Obama. 10 Amazing Demographic Percentages of the 2012 Election - NationalJournal.com
Racist, you say? Well...perhaps, to a degree....but one would expect the ethnicity of the candidate to offer a boost from those of a similar background.
And, in reality, many voters simply look for a similarity in the candidate for whom to vote...some reasonable, some not so much.
How about a co-religionist?
Remember, in probably the second closest election in US history, won by 0.17% of the popular vote, "... Inner-city Catholic votes unquestionably provided Kennedy’s razor-thin margin of victory.
[If you believe that JFK really won.]
As Theodore H. White, author ofThe Making of the President 1960, wrote: “There is no doubt that millions of Americans, Protestants and Catholics, voted in 1960 primordially out of instinct [and kinship].” Out of pride, 67 percent of Catholics, who had supported the Republican Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, swung back to the Democrat Kennedy and boosted his total share of the Catholic vote to over 70 percent." America s First Catholic President
So, race and religion play a substantial role in determining one's vote preference.
As does being a Liberal....
....oh, wait...I already said 'one's religion.'
Racist, you say? Well...perhaps, to a degree....but one would expect the ethnicity of the candidate to offer a boost from those of a similar background.
And, in reality, many voters simply look for a similarity in the candidate for whom to vote...some reasonable, some not so much.
How about a co-religionist?
Remember, in probably the second closest election in US history, won by 0.17% of the popular vote, "... Inner-city Catholic votes unquestionably provided Kennedy’s razor-thin margin of victory.
[If you believe that JFK really won.]
As Theodore H. White, author ofThe Making of the President 1960, wrote: “There is no doubt that millions of Americans, Protestants and Catholics, voted in 1960 primordially out of instinct [and kinship].” Out of pride, 67 percent of Catholics, who had supported the Republican Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, swung back to the Democrat Kennedy and boosted his total share of the Catholic vote to over 70 percent." America s First Catholic President
So, race and religion play a substantial role in determining one's vote preference.
As does being a Liberal....
....oh, wait...I already said 'one's religion.'