I'm sorry. I can't get over this. We're basing Obama's race and ethnicity on the COLOR OF HIS SKIN ! Its killing me how STUPID people are, thinking that Obama is the great black hope etc. He is EVERY BIT AS WHITE as he is black, why they don't understand that is beyond me. Well, I mean, no one is coming out and saying he's mixed race, because they'd lose that " granduer " of being the first black this or that.[/align][/align]But I gaurantee IF Obama runs, he will win the lions share of the black vote based on one thing only - the color of his skin - the very thing that divides this country and drive political correctness more than anything.[/align][/align][/align]
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WASHINGTON "” The first black presidential candidate with a real shot at the White House is generating excitement and early support among blacks who see a chance to help make history. [/align][/align]Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is all but certain to compete for the Democratic nomination and win a large share of black votes. That creates challenges for New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other hopefuls.
Obama is by no means the first black candidate for president. Other contenders have included Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Roger Wilkins, a race and politics expert at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., calls him the first "truly serious" prospect. "This guy is not a civil rights leader who comes to politics or a preacher who comes to politics," Wilkins says. "He is a bona fide lawyer-politician. I've heard black people say 'I'm going to help this guy' "” you don't want to be standing around when the first guy who has a real chance to be president is running."
Bill Clinton bonded so tightly with black voters that author Toni Morrison once called him "the first black president." That legacy and her own work have made Hillary Clinton popular among blacks. Clinton was favored by 39% of black Democrats and independents in combined USA TODAY/Gallup Polls conducted in November, December and this month; 31% chose Obama. The margin of error was +/"”8 percentage points.
Obama has room to improve; one-third of all those polled in December, regardless of race or party, said they had never heard of him, and 14% said they had no opinion. Comparable ratings for Clinton in November were 53% favorable, 42% unfavorable and 5% no opinion.
Obama partisans and some other observers say they expect him to become more popular among blacks and other voters when his official campaign gets rolling. He plans a formal announcement Feb. 10.
"I would expect him in most places to get the majority of the black votes" in primaries, says David Bositis, an expert on black voting behavior at the Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies.
Minyon Moore, a longtime Clinton friend who was political director in the Clinton White House, says it is way too early to talk about "a wholesale giveaway" of black votes to one candidate or another. She says black voters have grown sophisticated as a result of past campaigns by black hopefuls.
"We can make wise choices of who will work for our best interests regardless of color," she said. "It's not like African-Americans are breaking ground anymore."
Some, such as Wilkins and Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., argue that Obama is breaking ground in his broad-based appeal across racial and demographic lines. Other pluses: his level of political talent and his breadth of experience, from community organizing to Harvard Law Review to representing poor black constituents in the Illinois Senate and a diverse state in the U.S. Senate. They also cite his potential as a role model for black families.
"If Barack Obama is elected president of the United States, it will be possible to say to your children, this is what is attainable. You can be anything you want to in this country," Davis says.
Black voters don't figure largely in the nomination race until early February 2008. The competition moves at that point to South Carolina and Alabama, two states in which nearly half of Democratic primary voters are black.
"There is no question in my mind that Sen. Obama will get the lion's share of that vote," says Davis, a Harvard Law School classmate already pledged to Obama.
Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., said Obama's presence in his state will make it "very difficult" for Clinton and former North Carolina senator John Edwards, who was born in South Carolina and won its primary in 2004. But he said the black vote is not monolithic and ultimately black people will vote based on candidates' records and proposals.
Clinton is well positioned in that respect, both from her own work and her husband's, analysts say.
Beyond Bill Clinton's emotional ties to blacks, "he put into place policies that worked very favorably for African-Americans," Bositis says. One example: economic polices that helped black household income rise $5,000 in Clinton's second term as president.
Hillary Clinton has dealt with issues "of great importance to black people, such as creating a world in which poor children can flourish," Wilkins says. Still, he adds, "it's a chunk of support that they're going to have to fight like hell to keep. Hillary is not Bill. This election is not about putting Bill Clinton back in the Oval Office."
Just like in past elections the black vote is a moot point. Blacks like every other group of Americans fail to vote in substantial enough numbers to make a difference.
Its the black vote with the womans vote added to the gay vote thatis whatgives the dummycraps their power.
Now where are the Hispanics in this little power struggle?
Blacks & Mexicans Mix as well as kids & pit bulls!!!!!
Buster, I would say the reason you are seeing what you are seeing is because the blacks will substantially benefit with Obama in office. And if not benefit, set the stage or presidence for what you would consider a true black man. I see him as black. And I sure don't see him close to winning. You wait until the midwest finds out he comes from Islamic heritage.
Black presidents haven't fared too well on 24. The first one got whacked, and the second one got L.A. nuked (although I'm not sure that that's a bad thing)... I'm gonna vote for a rich white guy.
Its pointless, he could never win.Â* Simply because of his lack of experience.
Never underestimate the power of voter stupidity Burnie, the dummycraps and other libbies hate the publicans so much that they'll run anybody that they think has even a snowball's chance in hell if it polarizes the voters. Divide and conquer is their mantra.
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Black presidents haven't fared too well on 24. The first one got whacked, and the second one got L.A. nuked (although I'm not sure that that's a bad thing)... I'm gonna vote for a rich white guy.
Ahh thats funny. Hard to beat the power of Bauer.
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