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Originally Posted by Imperator
They do not because the fix has been in for decades now, as I explained, earlier. I would say the 93% may be off. I cannot imagine only 7% of blacks consider conservatism at its base so antithetical to them themselves. But then again, it depends on the candidate and what they think will get.
Its not so much about race per se, its maintaining the status quo. The mechanisms accrued to African Americans and the fact that Michael Steele would not play that game for instance. Given a lib African American, he will garner 93% of the vote. I bet in the general, it will come in around 88% or so. That’s still in and of itself a fantastic number in the sense of what that say about that electorate.
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But even if we assume that 88% of blacks vote Democrat, I'm still not sure where the criticism comes from. I understand that many in the GOP would like to get that kind of support from a certain demographic, but many (not you specifically) seem to act as though this voting pattern is some kind of flaw in either the black community or the Democratic party. If the GOP had (and maybe they do) a demographic that feels such loyalty to them, I'm sure they wouldn't consider it a flaw on the part of that demographic.