Election 2008: New Laws in Your State

[PhiGam]

Originally Posted by epchick

I agree. I was watching Headline News and they had 'statistics' on how people would vote/voted on Prop 8. I guess they polled people, and all but one of the different groups they polled (whites, blacks, college students, asians, etc) voted against Prop 8. The only group that voted in favor of Prop 8 was African-Americans (with 69% wanting yes on prop 8).

Then they made the wild claim that it was because of Obama that "yes on prop 8" succeeded. That because so many African-Americans were going out to vote that it pushed the "yes on prop 8" vote higher. I was just kinda like

Not an outrageous claim at all. Black people saw an 8% increase in turnout this year while young people increased only 1%.

[epchick]

Originally Posted by PhiGam

Not an outrageous claim at all. Black people saw an 8% increase in turnout this year while young people increased only 1%.

It is an outrageous claim if you are going to solely put the blame on either the African American vote or on Obama himself (which is what the newscasters were doing). Plenty of non-African Americans voted "yes" on Prop 8, and plenty of African Americans voted "no" on prop 8.

Of course, Obama clearly has nothing to do with the vote at all.