Presidential Politics '04: The "Black Vote" Does it Exist?

[enlightenment06]

Which of the presidential candidates (including Bush) do you think best represents the interests of Black Americans? In recoginition of our intra-group diversity, feel free to specify whether you think a particular candidate would be better for a particular group, i.e. Lieberman represents middle class Blacks the best because of XYZ.

[nikki1920]

Its not Al Sharpton.
I think there are aspects of each candidate that reflect the needs of some of the Black community.

[Sistermadly]

John McCain.

Oh wait - that was 2000. You mean I have to pick someone *now*?

I'd have to say that at this point, our best options lie with Howard Dean (as much as I hate to admit it) and John Edwards. I like Wesley Clark, and I'm encouraged by the knowledge that his personal assistant is a young brother from LA, but even with his record I'm not sure that he's caught people's imagination enough.

I still don't know who the heck to vote for. Thank heavens November is still months away.

[sigtau305]

Not a whole of choices but Right Now, I'm leaning towards Howard Dean.

[Steeltrap]

I am. I really want a pro-business moderate Demo to vote for. Sen. Edwards seems interesting, but he can be smacked with the "trial lawyer" bludgeon. Gen. Clark is also fairly interesting. I don't see Dr. Dean being electable in a general.

[Honeykiss1974]

Find you Presidential Match!



I scored a 100% for Kucinich with Al Sharpton in second place.

[CrimsonTide4]

1 Kucinich Score: 100%
2 Kerry Score: 97%
3 Sharpton Score: 95%
4 Dean Score: 94%
5 Edwards Score: 87%
6 Clark Score: 86%
7 Lieberman Score: 84%

[1browngirl]

Here are my matches:

100% Kucinich
90% Sharpton
88% Kerry
83% Clark & Dean
78% Edwards
71% Lieberman

[abaici]

Kucinich 100%

Dean 78%

Kerry 77%

[AKA2D '91]

1 Sharpton Score: 100%



2 Kucinich Score: 97%


3 Kerry Score: 88%


4 Dean Score: 88%


5 Clark Score: 86%


6 Lieberman Score: 82%


7 Edwards Score: 80%


8 Bush Score: 40%

[Love_Spell_6]

Well being that we are a huge race of people...I dont think any one candidate can represent a whole race of people's beliefs....because we are all different....to imply that it is possible would be saying that we are monolithic in what we believe...however we do seem to be quite monolithic in how we vote at the polls...

The only Democratic candidate I'd vote for is Lieberman...my spirituality is more important to me than my race

[Ideal08]

1 Kucinich Score: 100%

2 Sharpton Score: 89%

3 Kerry Score: 84%

4 Clark Score: 78%

5 Edwards Score: 77%

6 Dean Score: 76%

7 Lieberman Score: 65%

8 Bush Score: 15%

[madmax]

George Bush.

[RedefinedDiva]

I'm going with Rev. Al.

[enlightenment06]

Originally posted by madmax
George Bush.

Interesting. Why do you think so, considering African-Americans voted against him 9-1? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I really want to know.