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Originally Posted by mudwhistle
Are you trying to say now that the Dems don't have as many or something like that?
95% of blacks are voting for Obama. Blacks make up around 17% of the total US population. I would say that there is around 40% of America Democrat and about 40% Republican and the rest of the 20% is independent.
Now if 95% of the Black Democrat voters make up 17% of the total votes which works out to about 16.15% of the total votes in America going Democrat. What percentage of 40% is 16.15%? That works out to 56.15% of Democrats are voting for Obama because of his race. That's a large percentage of Democrat voters. That doesn't even include all of the other minority voters who are voting for him because he's black. I would say conservatively that at least half of Democrat voters are voting for Obama purely because of his race. That comes to about 25 million voters conservatively. That isn't a miniscule number of people voting for a man according to his race.
Iraq has 25 million people.....
Democrats voting for Obama because of his race would be like an entire country voting for the guy not because he's good or experienced....but just because he's black.
Racism is defined as thinking someone is better or should be favored over someone because of their race.
It looks like the Democrats have their fair share of racists in their ranks.
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I think first we have to differentiate between the degrees to which you think race is a factor in the voting patterns of American blacks. I'm not sure where you would rank it, but I would probably put it as a percentage considerably lower than 20%. I think most blacks consider the Economy, Health Care, the War, etc. far more important than they do the color of Obama's skin.
Long after Obama had entered the presidential race, in early 2007, Hillary had the black vote locked up. Even as late as October 2007, Hillary Clinton led among black Democrats 57% to 33% [
Poll: Black support helps Clinton extend lead). Did Obama's race change at some point between October 2007 and today?
I think it's more fair to say that many blacks favor Obama, much in the same way that many women favor Clinton, in the sense that they feel some kind of deeper connection toward his/her candidacy. I presume that many blacks, especially young blacks, feel like an Obama presidency would represent unquestionable proof that this country is capable of electing a president of any race. You may consider that racism. I do not.
It's not really all that different from members of the military voting for a veteran, or members of a certain religion voting for a candidate that belongs to the same religion. I don't see it as being about race.
If your logic was accurate, and blacks voted based on race, then it would logically follow that black Republican candidates were garner large percentages of the black vote, which, to my understanding, they do not.
Now, I suspect you're going to turn this from a "Well blacks are monolithically voting based on race" to a "Well blacks monolithically vote for Democrats" argument, but the latter is quite different from the former. And I'm confident that the latter is not based on racism.