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Originally Posted by starang21
i wonder how many black voters are voting for obama because he's black?
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A lot and there are nonblacks who are voting for Obama because he's black.
That's why it isn't ridiculous to hypothesize that a lot of nonblacks AREN'T voting for Obama because he's black.
We can look at campaign tactics and many apolitical jabs and see how race has been played. Unlike in years past, there have been nonwhite and nonmale candidates who seriously had a run for the White House. In the past, there were apolitical things like Catholicism to play on when that is what made a candidate stick out.
To save some folks some typing:
This doesn't mean that all (or even a majority) blacks and nonblacks are voting for Obama because he's black. This doesn't mean that all (or even a majority) nonblacks who aren't voting for Obama aren't doing so because he's black.