bayoubill
aka Sheik Yerbouti...
I see a lot of withe saying that black folks voted for Obama because he is black. You say that nothing matters to blacks but the color of his skin. In reality Obama got only a fraction more of the black vote as any other Democratic candidate since 64 when LBJ got 94%. Blacks have strongly supported Dems since then so why do you think that it is now all of a sudden about skin color and not party? Also do you think that a Black GOP candidate would get a higher percentage of black votes against a white Democrat?
Blacks have historically voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic candidate... so, no, I don't think they voted for Obama because he was black, per say... however, I suspect that they may have turned out in greater numbers for Obama... adding a few percentage points to the overall total of black folks voting for the Democratic candidate...
in that same vein, I suspect that if the GOP candidate happened to be black, the overall percentage of blacks voting for the GOP candidate would increase by only a few percentage points...
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