This misconception, like so many, is dying hard.
As your article states, 2 million more blacks voted in 2008 than 2004.
Roughly 95% of them, or 1.9 million, voted for Obama
Obama won the election by 9.5 million votes.
If those 1.9 million hadn't turned out, he'd have still won by 7.6 million votes.
As an aside, those 2 million votes were just 1.5% of the total number of votes cast.
Also, 90% of black voters voted for Gore in 2000, so Obama only got 5% more of the black vote than Al Gore.
Yep those are the facts.Blacks have overwhelmingly voted democratic for some time now.While some more turned out for the last election and the % increased a little voting democrate from the very high number it already was that does not account for a big % of the vote obama got as you point out Bodie.Republicans lost ground among a group even bigger than blacks as well, the hispanics.The republican brand is just that damaged that no one finds much appealing about them beyond there hardcore base,till they change that they ain't winning much of anything.
Did more catholics turn out for the election in 1960 with JFK running? Sure they did and theres nothing wrong or evil about it.People were inspired by the fact that someone they could relate to more than some others who have run in the past was running and decided to come out and vote, be that a catholic, black,woman,jew, whatever.
The notion though that being black or even catholic was an advantage overall though I think is not supported by any logic or evidence.They were hurdles that the candidates were able to overcome.JFK I would say primarily won on his personal charism and youthfull optimism in that era vs Nixon,but it was still a very close race.And Obama IMO was elected due to anxiety(and rightfully so) in the country by the population who did not see the republicans as offering anything to alleviate that,along with his being much more articualte and better campaigner than McCain.And the republicans still have not and are not offering any positive vision for how they will get us headed in a way that people think is correct and hopefull.
Which brings me to the OP's post about Obama.What are you comparing him to? If you are comparing him to the republicans of the recent past and present he looks to be doing pretty well IMO.
Most of what the original post says about Obama is just flat out not true.No amnesty for illegals has been proposed,health care bill specifically says no illegals are eligible.
Foreign affairs he looks pretty good after the last 8 years.Not perfect in my book,we need to be disengaging faster in Iraq and Afghanistan but the decision not to put missile defense in europe was big improvement over Bush.It was waste of money and was just atagonizing the russians unneccesarily.Bush was good at atagonizing people unneccessarily,we don't have to be cowboy like jerks to be strong and protect our interests.Bush was really unique for that capacity.
But I will give ya Obama messed up with the Olympics thing.Should have been able to figure out in advance (count the votes) that chicago was not going to be awarded the games.But we will survive that slight error in judgement I think.Beats driving the economy to the brink of destruction and pissing off a lot the world not to mention invading people based on total crap like the fomer president engaged in.:eek:
I'm a Conservative, and even I'm sick of this rhetoric. The worst thing to ever happen to America? Really? Opinions like that should be kept to yourself, lest you look a like a bigger idiot. If that's possible...
