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Can Obama Sustain
Enthusiasm With African Americans?

Weekly Standard, by Jay Cost

Original Article

Posted By:Pluperfect, 10/23/2012 5:28:49 AM

Elections these days are determined in part by the swing of unaffiliated voters, which both sides closely contest. They also hinge on how strongly each party’s base turns out to vote. The base vote can be a huge factor in elections. Consider, for instance, that in 2000 George W. Bush won 72 percent of people opposed to abortion in most or all cases. In 2004, he won 75 percent of that bloc. Moreover, turnout among this group increased from 40 percent to 42 percent of the population. Taken together, this increase among an already solidly Republican group

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Sfacheem, 10/23/2012 5:56:08 AM     (No. 8954549)

Set up the voting booths in McDonalds all across the country and it'll be Obama in a landslide.


Reply 2 - Posted by: provide, 10/23/2012 6:22:44 AM     (No. 8954564)

Will Jessie Jr. be re elected?


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Crosscut, 10/23/2012 6:35:44 AM     (No. 8954579)

Who cares?


Reply 4 - Posted by: mikeh251, 10/23/2012 7:10:01 AM     (No. 8954627)

in response to the headline: only with the racist ones, and those that are teachers and/or government workers. Oh, and those on social programs.


Reply 5 - Posted by: suziesuburbanite, 10/23/2012 7:10:38 AM     (No. 8954631)

Amost all of the messia's positions are not shared by blacks - abortion, gay marriage, etc in fact the only edge he has is skin color


Reply 6 - Posted by: MisterDickens, 10/23/2012 7:51:01 AM     (No. 8954691)

Well, we've learned one thing for sure in the last 4 years, racism is a two-way street.

Another thing we have learned is that they will not need to make a movie about Zerobama. They can just re-release Elmer Gantry.


Reply 7 - Posted by: MDConservative, 10/23/2012 7:52:42 AM     (No. 8954695)

In a word, no. That balloon is about flat. He'll get a high percentage of a low black turnout.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: UNCDoc, 10/23/2012 8:30:51 AM     (No. 8954763)

Perhaps if they were to begin seeing themselves as individual American citizens with potential as opposed to being a perpetually aggrieved and wronged tribal population within that country things would improve. Oh, and stop doing the things that virtually guarantee poverty, and which no other person other the one in your mirror is ultimately responsible: Dropping out of school, having children out of wedlock, committing crimes, and voting for Barack Obama.


Reply 9 - Posted by: TigerLilly, 10/23/2012 9:04:36 AM     (No. 8954841)

I wonder how many of Obama's base watched the debate?


Reply 10 - Posted by: Baracks Sox, 10/23/2012 9:27:45 AM     (No. 8954904)

#8

All too many blacks don't have potential and government benefits allows those who don't have potential to reproduce even more who don't have potential.

Hard truths, but truth nonetheless.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Holeymoses, 10/23/2012 9:28:28 AM     (No. 8954906)

Obama may feel resentment towards the whites, but I never felt he identified with the blacks, even though he liked to reel them in with a black dialect from time to time.



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