At 08:24 PM 1/19/2009, Robert Meier wrote:
Not in this election they didn't.
Actually, they did. The news media skewed their reporting, but,
yes, a higher percentage of blacks seem to have voted for McCain in
2008 than had voted for Bush in 2004, though the difference was
minor. Since 1950, Blacks have very slowly been turning Republican
-- at tht time, the average was around 3% and is today around 10%.
And the election of Black Republicans to office has had an effect
on this. You cannot look to a single election, in any event: you
need to amass all of the many, many elections held in the US on the
local, state, and national level, and must compare the data over
decades. Snap-shots tell us very little.
Marc
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