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Originally Posted by rodrigu3
The idea is that people are assuming blacks are so stupid and prejudiced that they are just automatically voting for Obama, when we don't really have any idea why they are doing so. I'm sure many blacks are voting because Obama is half-black, but I'm sure many others are voting for him because his platform aligns well with their values. But they don't poll this stuff, so we can't say for sure.
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I never said blacks are stupid. And not only is Obama drawing a higher percentage of black voters but in raw numbers he is drawing far more. The only reason why I posit that it is because he is black is because of my own unofficial poll that I took at work, where not one of my patients (who are predominantly black by the way) could talk about his agenda but were voting for him anyway.
And if 84% voted for Clinton and 91% are voting for Obama, isn't that a statistical difference? That 7% probably could have made a great deal of difference to John Kerry or Al Gore.