How Many White People Will Vote for Romney Because He's White?

This commentary article by Les Payne proffers a simple question: blacks are often accused of voting for Obama because of his race, but how much of the 98% white GOP will vote for Romney because he's white?

Repeatedly, blacks are called upon to explain why, other than because of his race, they would vote for Obama (after 128 years of voting for white presidents, including many avowed racists).

Indeed, blacks support President Obama for similar reasons to those stated in the New Yorker magazine's endorsement: "[He] has achieved a run of ambitious legislative, social and foreign-policy successes that relieved a large measure of the human suffering and national shame inflicted by the Bush Administration. Obama has renewed the honor of the office he holds."
That he happens to be African American, of course, is an added value of pride for African Americans.

Seldom, if ever, are whites queried about voting for the candidate of a predominantly white party, who is so shameless a panderer that even ranking party officials are knocked into a quandary over what exactly he believes. So the question arises:

Are whites voting against Obama chiefly because he's black?

The shifty Romney campaign has driven some party loyalists to appeal to the baser instincts of race, especially among the undecided. "Romney is not the perfect candidate," declared Rush Limbaugh, the GOP mouthpiece. "This election isn't about him. He may as well be Elmer Fudd as far as [Republicans] are concerned….


…Unfolding before our very eyes in the upcoming election is something of a racial showdown between an incumbent black president who has enjoyed 43 percent white support and a shifty character from the Republican Party, which is 98 percent white.
Stay tuned.


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