The blacks!!!!!

You have to be pretty stupid to claim to have NO CLUE why 92% of black voters would back Obama.

You seriously do not know?

In the 200 plus years this country has been in existence, when–EVER–has there ever been a remote chance of there being a black president?

Considering the history of the country, the way blacks have fared in the electoral process and decades of people addressing that stupid question about whether or not America is “ready” for a black president (”Do you think “other people” are racist?”); here comes a candidate out of the shadows (he is half-white, but historically who are we kidding with respect to what whites think about this?) with a chance of a lifetime, and you expect the African-American population to yawn?

You must be “really” wondering!?

You guys are in some serious denial. But then again, if you’ve never seen “white privilege”…

If the price of slavery and a “couple thousand” lynchings is that blacks get excited over the first possible black president in 200+ years (and God forbid they actually get excitd over that), then you should be thanking God that the “debt” has been “canceled” (so to speak).
(The funny thing is that he did not get 90% of the black vote until blacks were convinced that whites would support him.)

To be honest about, this Middle Tennessee person (born and raised) despises this lame East Tennessee cultural legacy. While everyone else’s ancestors moved west, population density increased, and people finally realized that when you are elbow-to-elbow with other people, you cannot define “freedom” as the ability to do whatever you want, wherever you want, and whenever you want—no matter who gets hurt. C’mon all you “personal responsibility” East Tennessee Republicans who will thoughtlessly vote for John McCain simply because of Parson Brownlow, let’s hear it. How about a rousing, ” I should be able to smoke in any restaurant. They’ve taken my freedom away.”

No they haven’t. They have informed you that you do not live in an isolated mounatin valley. You live around other people. You have a personal responsibility to think not just about yourself but also about your elbow-to-elbow neighbors who would like to avoid cancer.

For example, I should be able to smoke in restaurants

I don’t think this is going to help.

http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Politics/story?id=4798314

As noted, the racial makeup of the electorates themselves played a major role. Blacks accounted for 34 percent of North Carolina voters and 91 percent of them supported Obama. Against that voting bloc Clinton would have needed 70 percent of non-black voters; she fell well short, with 59 percent. Obama also won nine in 10 blacks in Indiana. They accounted for 18 percent of voters there – far fewer than in North Carolina, but a record nonetheless for Indiana, surpassing 15 percent in 1988.

race and age:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/22/pennsylvania-exit-polls-p_n_98069.html
(Pennsylvania primary)
white 18-29 53-47 clinton
white 30-44 53-47 clinton
white 45-59 59-41 clinton
blacks 92-8 obama

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21226001/
(Ohio primary)

Category % Total Clinton Obama
White 76 64 34
Black 18 13 87
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21225975
Georgia

Race
Category % Total Clinton Edwards Obama
White 43 53 4 43
Black 51 11 0 88

92% may be a LITTLE high, but only by a couple of percent.

Doug, do you have a link to data to back that up?

Pretty interesting that NARAL waited until it was clear who the nominee would be.

I am sure the baby-killing crew at NARAL is endorsing Barack BabyDaddy Obama only to avoid the wrath of the Democrat party and being called racist. Don’t you know how this identity politics stuff works yet?