Sentences with phrase «blacks voted for»

The vote was almost evenly split among Protestants in non-mainline churches, which Barna says is a result skewed by the fact that more than 90 percent of blacks voted for Gore.

80 % of blacks voted for prop. 8 in California banning gay marriage... you may want to hold that thought for a moment.

But black votes for Obama were inconsequential in preventing Alabama's nine electoral votes from being delivered to John McCain and Mitt Romney, both of whom defeated Obama in that state with 60 % of the vote.

Care to take a look at the black vote for Clinton?

Why else did the black vote for Obama equal over 90 %?

Liberal Democrats not only take the black vote for granted, they apparently believe we can't exist or think for ourselves without the «Government Massa» telling us what to do and giving us a hand out.

I'm on the right (although not a Republican) and it's clear that she is a token candidate to try and increase the black vote for Romney.

Or Blacks voting for Obama because he's black.

Note that the black vote for Roosevelt is generally credited to his economic policies rather than civil rights.

Chippenham constituency's Wilfred Emmanuel - Jones is quoted in David Matthews» piece:» «The Labour Party has had the black vote for over 50 years and what have they done with it?

After Cuomo picked a white man to be his running mate even with zero blacks running on the Democratic slate this year for any statewide office, Barron felt that the Democrats were taking the black vote for granted and created his own «Freedom Party.»

Not exact matches

Black voters in red states should vote as they usually do for candidates, down the ballot — and leave their choice for President blank.

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

One desperate solution was for blacks to risk voting for the candidate who represented the greater of two evils, in the hope that he would be sympathetic to African Americans because they helped secure the election.

Not only do we think black voters should abstain from voting for the Democratic presidential nominee in red states, we also think black voters should continue their role as pivotal voters in battleground states.

«I voted for Zena not because she was black or a woman.

As they enthusiastically did in 2008 and 2012, black voters should turn out in massive numbers this November in states where their votes can determine the margin of victory for the Democratic nominee — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.

They also offered up some bold names in black entertainment who could stump for votes.

According to estimates by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, black voters contributed roughly 70 % of Obama's share of the vote in the state, both in 2008 and 2012.

The MP for Richmond Park hasn't been able to win over the black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) vote either, and this is a problem given that this social group is on the rise in the capital.

The Mormon Faith teaches dark skin is a curse from god, blacks will be voting for Obama in record numbers.

The reason black people wont vote for romney is the same is why most latino's and elderly wouldnt vote for him.

He even asked if they are cool with a VP like Palin and guess what, black people still said they would vote for Obama.

Yes, except for the fact that a majority of blacks voted against gay marriage in California.

How many blacks do you think will vote for Mitt Romney?

This is being used to keep black ppl from voting for Obama.

Doesn't this prove that blacks are incredibly hypocritical and only vote for Obama because of skin color?

Guess what, black people still said they would vote for Obama.

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

Religion News Service: Black pastors move to counter new voter ID laws African - American clergy are joining forces with civil rights groups to push for increased voter registration ahead of the November election, spurred on by new voter laws they say restrict opportunities for minorities to enter the voting booth.

Whites will vote for Obama but not one black will vote for Romney..

Second, Blacks didn't vote for Obama becuase he's black.

I'd vote for a Mormon, Catholic, Jew, Muslim, white guy, black guy, woman, gay, midget — anyone who can get results.

What a Mormon response to say... I'd vote for a Black, gay, mormon because that is the ultimate contridiction

Ragansteve, And in those hundred years, we have seen women obtain the vote, the end of child labor, the end of Jim Crow laws, civil rights for blacks, the end of segregation, the end of the prohibition of mixed race marriages, and the list goes on and on.

For one I could point out 20 mispelling errors, «Mormonism» not a word, weird huh.I am a Mormon I do support Mitt and I did in 2008, but religion aside Mitt can get it done, and he has in the past!!!! Obama has failed the USA no doubt about that.Mitt's morals, family values is what America is on.Shame on the people who can't move past that, You (not me) voted on a black man for President and not a Mormon, turns out the Mormon Canidiate coud have changed the whole USA around cool hFor one I could point out 20 mispelling errors, «Mormonism» not a word, weird huh.I am a Mormon I do support Mitt and I did in 2008, but religion aside Mitt can get it done, and he has in the past!!!! Obama has failed the USA no doubt about that.Mitt's morals, family values is what America is on.Shame on the people who can't move past that, You (not me) voted on a black man for President and not a Mormon, turns out the Mormon Canidiate coud have changed the whole USA around cool hfor President and not a Mormon, turns out the Mormon Canidiate coud have changed the whole USA around cool huh.

There have been many statments made recently implying that the black community is almost obligated to vote for Obama...??? If he is being voted for because of the color of his skin, we are moving backwards.

He got your mind off the WAR that he started and wasn't going good and said gay marriage was wrong and got all these blacks in churches fallilng for the okie doke and they voted for him and well the rest is history.

No self - respecting black person is going to vote for that marshmallow.

Yet blacks will keep voting for Obama despite the fact that they're actually in worse shape now.

I find it amazing that the black pastors would use this as a reason not to vote for someone.

I commend the pastor for his moral conviction but the majority of blacks are incapable of voting on any other issue but race... its genetic... Obama could say he is an ax murderer and they still will find a way to justify their vote for him... another words Obama sees the black vote as in the bag and he is right... most of them are incapable of critical thinkng

People kill me thinking the reason we vote for Obama is because he is black, truth is he could have been Chinese as long as he was fair.

Blacks will overwhelmingly vote for Obama.

@Ban Religion: You said, «I can't tell you how many people I spoke to prior to the election that said they were voting for him because «It's finally time for a black president.»»

Just like it was trendy to vote for obama because he's part black.

However evangelicals and southern Baptists WILL vote for Mitt Romney over Obama because although they fear that mormonism is from Satan, Barack Obama is black and must be defeated.

Remember in 2008 they tried to convence us our naighbors voted for obama cause they felt bad for the black man.

The trend is the same for black Protestants: 76 percent voted in support of a candidate in 2012, compared to 56 percent in 2016.