Let me start by stating that if Obama was a politician who shared my values on less taxes (capital gains), less government, drill oil "for now", pro-life, etc., I would have voted for him. So don't even go there with the racist crap.
Obama is a very charismatic, intelligent and skilled politician and someone I would enjoy sitting down with over a beer to pick his brain. But he won not only because he ran a ridiculously financed campaign supported by a mass media which viewed him as infallable, but simply because he is a "black man" who promises the same ol' Democratic policy of raising taxes on the "rich" and subsequntly distributing more money and government programs to the lower income class and those simply looking for handouts who have no job and no ambition to take a job when it's staring them in the face.
Obama was incredibly efficient as a politician and non-stereotypical as a black man but African Americans saw him as a black man than most others and voted for him accordingly. Previous black candidates have never won the Dem's Presidential nomination which didn't incite the black voter turnout like it did this year. I'm curious to see all the final stats on the voting segments as they are counted.
Stats according to MSNBC (as liberal as you get) should be no surprise to anyone:
1. Dems got 88% of the black vote in 2004 but 95% this year along with a larger black voter turnout this year than in past years for the simple fact he is a black man...black voter turnout had declined before this election.
2. Dems got 43% of the hispanic vote in 2004 but 58% this year along with a larger turnout as well.
3. Dems only got 2% more of the white vote...41% in 2004, 43% this year.
4. With all the talk regarding the young vote this year there was an improved turnout of only 1%...17% in 2004, 18% this year.
Obama is a very charismatic, intelligent and skilled politician and someone I would enjoy sitting down with over a beer to pick his brain. But he won not only because he ran a ridiculously financed campaign supported by a mass media which viewed him as infallable, but simply because he is a "black man" who promises the same ol' Democratic policy of raising taxes on the "rich" and subsequntly distributing more money and government programs to the lower income class and those simply looking for handouts who have no job and no ambition to take a job when it's staring them in the face.
Obama was incredibly efficient as a politician and non-stereotypical as a black man but African Americans saw him as a black man than most others and voted for him accordingly. Previous black candidates have never won the Dem's Presidential nomination which didn't incite the black voter turnout like it did this year. I'm curious to see all the final stats on the voting segments as they are counted.
Stats according to MSNBC (as liberal as you get) should be no surprise to anyone:
1. Dems got 88% of the black vote in 2004 but 95% this year along with a larger black voter turnout this year than in past years for the simple fact he is a black man...black voter turnout had declined before this election.
2. Dems got 43% of the hispanic vote in 2004 but 58% this year along with a larger turnout as well.
3. Dems only got 2% more of the white vote...41% in 2004, 43% this year.
4. With all the talk regarding the young vote this year there was an improved turnout of only 1%...17% in 2004, 18% this year.
