Clinton will win a majority
of black votes but the total number cast will likely be less.
Those suggestions will cost Obama a big chuck
of black votes.
Yes, except for the fact that a majority
of blacks voted against gay marriage in California.
80 %
of blacks voted for prop. 8 in California banning gay marriage... you may want to hold that thought for a moment.
It's a start, though it's hard to imagine a lot
of blacks voting against obama.
90 %
of blacks vote straight Dem and GOP blacks like Rice and Powell crossed over to vote for Obama based on race.
Not all us tea party activists are religious nuts... 90 %
of blacks vote democratic and 79 % profess to be religious.
Ever since, no Republican presidential nominee has gained more than a small percentage
of the black vote.
Barack Obama took 96 %
of the black vote in 2008, and strong turnout among African - Americans and other minorities will be crucial if he hopes to win a second term, analysts say.
I'm on the right, and while I certainly don't feel hate towards this woman, it is clear that she is just a token black for Romney to try and get
some of the black vote, which he has about 0 % of at the moment.
For the Conservatives that think that Black people voted for Obama just because he was black... if you put that lady on a national stage she wouldn't get 5 %
of the black vote.
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.
The GOP spin machine is trying to present this woman as the beginning of a trend
of blacks voting GOP; that nonsense.
Thats weird, because as I recall in 2008, President Obama had 99 %
of the black vote.
The stepped - up effort comes in the wake of two polls showing Spitzer with massive leads over Stringer, largely on the strength
of the black vote.
Republicans haven't won a majority
of the black vote since.
Instead Mr. Wright likely was hurt by a fragmenting
of the black vote.
If he pulls 75 to 80 percent
of the black vote, as many assume he will, it's difficult to see how Thompson doesn't at least come in second — enough to get into a likely runoff in a multi-candidate race.
A recent Quinnipiac University poll gave de Blasio 16 percent
of the black vote.
Not exact matches
If you told her she had to drape her body in a billowing
black sack every time she went outside, or that her right to
vote was only a right as
of a few years ago, she'd tell you you'd lost your mind.
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.
But J. Gerald Hebert, director
of the
Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more
black voters than necessary to «dilute their
voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»
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.
Clinton called in to Sharpton's nationally syndicated radio show on the 50th anniversary
of the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6 to appeal to
blacks to turn out to
vote during the primaries.
In defending his record, Sessions is likely to point to his
vote to confirm Eric Holder as the country's first
black attorney general and to his co-sponsorship
of the Fair Sentencing Act, which sought to reduce racial disparities in how
black and white drug offenders are treated.
As NAACP official Henry Lee Moon explained in his 1948 book on the
black vote, «the size, the strategic distribution, and the flexibility
of the Negro
vote lend it an importance which can no longer be overlooked.»
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.
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.
King wrote that when acting as a federal prosecutor, Sessions used his power to «chill the free exercise
of the
vote by
black citizens.»
'' «You really did a great job
of getting the
vote out in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee,» in other words,
black people,»» Obama allegedly said after the call, paraphrasing Romney.
The complaint alleges that out -
of - state voters were allowed to
vote, and questions the integrity
of results from Jefferson County, which is 43 %
black and saw a 47 % turnout rate, which Moore called «highly unusual» — i.e. higher than expected.
He mentioned some
of the claims, including one that five busloads
of black voters from Mississippi came into the state to
vote, which he said was proven false after an investigation.
Doesn't this prove that
blacks are incredibly hypocritical and only
vote for Obama because
of skin color?
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.
Another way
of suppressing the
black vote.
the majority
of Obama's
votes came from white people not
black people so your assertion is compelte lie.
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.
Black smoke poured from the chimney fixed to the roof
of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday morning, indicating that the cardinals» first two
votes of the day were inconclusive.
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.
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
The trend is the same for
black Protestants: 76 percent
voted in support
of a candidate in 2012, compared to 56 percent in 2016.
Only in our time do we draw electoral district lines so that
black representatives may be assured
of election without the inconvenience
of having to solicit white
votes.
Black certainly understood that
voting to uphold the law might dampen criticism
of his Klan background.
Once, the First Secretary
of the Regional Communist Party insisted that the «
black beetles»
vote in town rather than at the monastery as a way
of teaching «the atavistic deviant non-working-class element
of society» a lesson.
It implies the rejection
of civil rights for
blacks,
votes for women, the abolition
of slavery, the abolition
of property requirements for
voting; it implies the rejection
of the whole historical march against arbitrary difference and power.
I Republicans should start «promoting the
vote» like our Democratic state congressman in Alabama who specifically targetted the
black vote by buying them cheap bottles
of vodka.
He joined the
Black Militant Jerimiah Wright church in Chicago to get a base
of vote from its participants.