Obama Approval By Race

Off Topic Politics and World Issues
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“President Obama’s job approval rating averaged 88% among blacks and 38% among whites in July, a 50-percentage-point difference that has been consistent in recent months but is much larger than in the initial months of the Obama presidency. Obama’s job approval ratings among blacks, whites, and Hispanics in July are all at their lowest levels to date, although the overwhelming majority of blacks still approve.”

Pretty crazy that there is a 50% point swing between blacks and whites regarding Obama.

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It is ok Whites are just racists.

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[quote]dmaddox wrote:
It is ok Whites in the Tea Party are just racists.[/quote]

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96% of blacks voted for Obama in the Democrat primaries, when he was running against another liberal.

Statistically impossible without overwhelming racism being involved in the vote.

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Everyone already knows that black people are very racist…

But all people are racist…some just choose to whine about it.

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I agree that everyones racist.

I think some black people voted for the dude just cause he was black AND a democrat.

what percentage of the black vote did alan keyes get?

I think this was also in their rational self interest. It was not malicious or hateful in anyway.

I dont know who Im arguing with here. I guess its pre-emptive.

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[quote]dk44 wrote:

Pretty crazy that there is a 50% point swing between blacks and whites regarding Obama. [/quote]

You would have expected otherwise?

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Not everyone is racist. Racism is more common in blacks than whites nowadays, although even the black folks who support Obama solely because of his race are often easy to get along with on an individual level. I have learned that people compartmentalize their lives, and can be perfectly rational in once area and totally irrational in another.

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eli’s right with the alan keyes thing although he is a nut job.

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“…Racism is more common in blacks than whites nowadays…”

???

Nevermind.

Mufasa

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[quote]belligerent wrote:
Not everyone is racist. Racism is more common in blacks than whites nowadays, although even the black folks who support Obama solely because of his race are often easy to get along with on an individual level. I have learned that people compartmentalize their lives, and can be perfectly rational in once area and totally irrational in another. [/quote]

How you come up with this bullshit?

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[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
96% of blacks voted for Obama in the Democrat primaries, when he was running against another liberal.

Statistically impossible without overwhelming racism being involved in the vote.[/quote]

Good point.

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[quote]Mufasa wrote:
“…Racism is more common in blacks than whites nowadays…”

???

Nevermind.

Mufasa[/quote]

Chris Rock agrees with him :slight_smile:

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Belligerent can you change your avatar is kind of hard to focus on politics.

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[quote]pat wrote:

[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
96% of blacks voted for Obama in the Democrat primaries, when he was running against another liberal.

Statistically impossible without overwhelming racism being involved in the vote.[/quote]

Good point.[/quote]

Or 96% of black people felt he was the better candidate and where not encumbered by prejudice that was chipped away for white voters.

You don’t know. Probably some combination of both.

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[quote]dk44 wrote:

“President Obama’s job approval rating averaged 88% among blacks and 38% among whites in July, a 50-percentage-point difference that has been consistent in recent months but is much larger than in the initial months of the Obama presidency. Obama’s job approval ratings among blacks, whites, and Hispanics in July are all at their lowest levels to date, although the overwhelming majority of blacks still approve.”

Pretty crazy that there is a 50% point swing between blacks and whites regarding Obama. [/quote]

That’s because blacks are racist, no wait, that would only be in play if it were reversed. Black people can’t be racist, the mainstream liberal media says so.

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[quote]Eli B wrote:

[quote]pat wrote:

[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
96% of blacks voted for Obama in the Democrat primaries, when he was running against another liberal.

Statistically impossible without overwhelming racism being involved in the vote.[/quote]

Good point.[/quote]

Or 96% of black people felt he was the better candidate and where not encumbered by prejudice that was chipped away for white voters.

You don’t know. Probably some combination of both.[/quote]

Get real. Not even 96% of people like Ice Cream.

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[quote]dmaddox wrote:
It is ok Whites are just racists.[/quote]

Exactly the opposit. You see, white people voted for him (obviously not racist, right?) for whatever reason. THEN after he started doing damage to this country and showing what a liar he is the whites looked at his substance/actions and decided he isn’t doing a good job. Black people however are approving of him STRICTLY because he is black, they aren’t looking at what he is doing, but simply going off the fact that he is black.

I will say though that its understandable(sp?) to stick with the first black pres. if you are black, I bet I would feel the same way. But again if they were loking at what he is (and isn’t) doing instead of the color of his skin, they would have a far smaller approval rate.

the whites are judging him by character, blacks by race. I dont dislike the dude, just basically 90% of his policies.

ok, now that I’m the officical bad guy of this thread…

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[quote]carbiduis wrote:

[quote]dmaddox wrote:
It is ok Whites are just racists.[/quote]

Exactly the opposit. You see, white people voted for him (obviously not racist, right?) for whatever reason. THEN after he started doing damage to this country and showing what a liar he is the whites looked at his substance/actions and decided he isn’t doing a good job. Black people however are approving of him STRICTLY because he is black, they aren’t looking at what he is doing, but simply going off the fact that he is black.

I will say though that its understandable(sp?) to stick with the first black pres. if you are black, I bet I would feel the same way. But again if they were loking at what he is (and isn’t) doing instead of the color of his skin, they would have a far smaller approval rate.

the whites are judging him by character, blacks by race. I dont dislike the dude, just basically 90% of his policies.

ok, now that I’m the officical bad guy of this thread…[/quote]
There was some lady on O’Reilly last night claiming that the drop in his poll numbers is because white independent voters decided to get all racist against him. But, where was all their racism when they voted for him in the first place? This whole argument is so fucking ludicrous.

96% black approval = blacks approve based on race. Sorry, sad but true. Why? Because 96% of blacks aren’t democrats or liberals, so it doesn’t have anything to do with policy or party. It is pure race. And if that isn’t racism, I don’t know what is. Wasn’t it MLK who wanted people judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin? Some people should take that to heart.

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[quote]HG Thrower wrote:

[quote]carbiduis wrote:

[quote]dmaddox wrote:
It is ok Whites are just racists.[/quote]

Exactly the opposit. You see, white people voted for him (obviously not racist, right?) for whatever reason. THEN after he started doing damage to this country and showing what a liar he is the whites looked at his substance/actions and decided he isn’t doing a good job. Black people however are approving of him STRICTLY because he is black, they aren’t looking at what he is doing, but simply going off the fact that he is black.

I will say though that its understandable(sp?) to stick with the first black pres. if you are black, I bet I would feel the same way. But again if they were loking at what he is (and isn’t) doing instead of the color of his skin, they would have a far smaller approval rate.

the whites are judging him by character, blacks by race. I dont dislike the dude, just basically 90% of his policies.

ok, now that I’m the officical bad guy of this thread…[/quote]
There was some lady on O’Reilly last night claiming that the drop in his poll numbers is because white independent voters decided to get all racist against him. But, where was all their racism when they voted for him in the first place? This whole argument is so fucking ludicrous.

96% black approval = blacks approve based on race. Sorry, sad but true. Why? Because 96% of blacks aren’t democrats or liberals, so it doesn’t have anything to do with policy or party. It is pure race. And if that isn’t racism, I don’t know what is. Wasn’t it MLK who wanted people judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin? Some people should take that to heart.[/quote]

I think 96% of blacks are democrats/liberals at least nominally if not active in politics. There was also record turnout because they thought they would finally have a politician who they weren’t invisible to, yes, because he has african heritage. So all those blacks who felt jaded about the political process came out of the woodwork to vote for him. These are more likely to be unemployed, underemployed, laborers etc, who were first time voters who have an interest in voting democratic, not more affluent or middle class blacks who arguably have an interest in voting republican.

In any case the vast majority of blacks align with the democratic party for better or worse.