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Race Matters: Obama and the ‘Bradley Effect’

September 11, 2008 - 12:36 am - by Stephen Green
michael
2008-09-12 03:47:18

People say that blacks will vote for Obama just because he’s black, but in fact the percentage of blacks supporting him is no different than the percentage of blacks who support the Democratic candidate in any given presidential electionyear. Roughly 90% of blacks always vote Democratic. And that’s where he stands among blacks, so clearly Republican blacks are not going to vote for him just because he’s black.