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95% of Black voters cast their ballot for Obama.
by theorique 14y ago
95% of Black voters cast their ballot for Obama.
- arrrg 14y agoBecause he's black? And I suppose white voters voted for Romney because he's white.
- saalweachter 14y agoWalter Mondale got 90% of the black vote in '84. Do you know something about him I don't?
- arrrg 14y agoBill Clinton got "surprisingly low" percentages in the lower eighties. Black people vote for Democrats because Republicans fucked them in the past. But no, white people vote for Romney because of the issues, black people vote for Obama because they are racist, Of course!
- wallawe 14y ago95% of whites don't vote for Romney. Not even close.
- saalweachter 14y agoIn 2000 Gore won 42% of the white vote and 90% of the black vote. In 2012, Obama won 39% of the white vote and 93% of the black vote. So at most, Obama got an extra 3% of the black vote on account of his race, and lost at most 3% of the white vote. So on the face of it, a wash. Of course, the white electorate is over five times larger than the black electorate, so that's really -2.2%, +0.4%. Even if Obama had performed at Bill Clinton's historically low 83% of the black vote, his popular vote total would have been only 1.3% lower. This may have been enough to make him lose the popular vote, but it would not have been enough to make him lose the electoral college (Mitt Romney would have needed to win the popular vote by 3% to have won the electoral college).
- evilduck 14y agoIt's a little elevated but not much, I would guess any "reverse racism" going on is probably proportional or lesser than the people who didn't vote for Obama because he was black. Recall that black voters historically align with the Democrats in the 80-90% range anyways: 1984 Walter Mondale 90% Ronald Reagan 9% 1988 Michael Dukakis 90% George H.W. Bush 10% 1992 Bill Clinton 83% George H.W. Bush 10% 1996 Bill Clinton 84% Bob Dole 12% 2000 Al Gore 90% George W. Bush 9%
- gadders 14y agoAnd I believe Bush Jr had one of the most diverse cabinets as well...
- rpm4321 14y agoEven though the percent might not be much higher, it's really about turnout, not percent won. Twice as many blacks showed up to the polls for Obama than for Clinton. Obama was a "movement" candidate in the black community. However, I'm sympathetic to your argument - I think blacks turning out for Obama was more akin to Irish Catholics showing up for Kennedy, rather than whites showing up for George Wallace - more of a pride thing, and a symbolic triumph over past discrimination, etc.
- theorique 14y agoGood point - Obama's results with the Black vote was more of a bump, rather than a sea change compared to White candidates in the past.