blacks voted for a great many white candidates.

[meow mix]

invoking racism for the black vote for going so heavily to obama, is a bunch of bs.

[my2sense]

1. Agreed n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. I guess it's a pure coincidence then.

[angie_love]

4. UM WTF is that supposed to mean? I see your true colors shining through

[Yossariant]

6. I don't think we're allowed to mention that when there's a black Presidential candidate,

he wins the South Carolina Democratic primary which is composed of a majority of black people.

To do so is not to state the obvious.

It is to be branded a racist.

:crazy:

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. Don't try to argue about hope either. The Obama semantic prison.

[jackson_dem]

11. JFK got 80% of the Catholic vote in 1960

Total fluke. Never again will a "first" candidate get 80% support from "his" group. Obama is winning 88-12 over Hillary and beat Edwards 78-1 among blacks in South Carolina (while Edwards beat him 40-24 among whites) because he has the best record on black issues. Obama has a 100% lifetime NAACP rating. Edwards' was only 97%.

[angie_love]

3. I think that race shit is over now, consider Obama won a handful of mostly white states

It'd be pretty hard to sell him as the "black candidate" again. Nice job clintons, not only did 80% of AA's turn against you nationwide, but Obama is increasing his white support all over. Up to 41% nationwide with whites, and leads among white men.

[knowledgeispwr]

5. Yeah

Also considering that the black vote was overwhelmingly behind Clinton until fairly recently and that other black candidates in recent history, like Carol Mosely Braun and Al Sharpton didn't get consistent majorities of the black vote.

The Latino thing is overplayed as well; Obama did well with Latinos in some places and not so well in others.

Also, Obama generally improves among all groups in a state once they get a chance to get familiar with him and his platform, which will benefit him in the primaries/caucuses ahead.

[meow mix]

7. true! im sure theres black officials who benefitted from hispanic/latino

votes..
or else they wouldnt have won! well at least in cali heh

[krkaufman]

9. MSNBC or CNN went through a bunch the other night.

It's very possible that a lot of Latinos just like Hillary.

[meow mix]

10. ah nice..

didnt catch that one, drats...

[krkaufman]

13. They mentioned 5-ish AA politicians who received heavy Latino support...

... but I can't remember any. (former LA mayor was one.)

[krkaufman]

8. What you said is accurate... blacks were not behind Obama until more recently.

Blacks *have* supported Obama more than Hillary in recent primaries; however, it would be difficult to determine whether they support him now because...

- they feel he's the better candidate
- their shared heritage
- the Clintons injected race into the campaign, and pissed a bunch of people off

Take your pick and proclaim it as the ultimate truth.