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

For instance, in 2004, the Rev. Al Sharpton ran for president of the United States. Now, we know he's black, but a ton of black folks didn't even think of supporting him during his run or send him a dime. I recall betting a black New York media executive a big steak dinner that Sharpton would not win the primary in South Carolina, where nearly half of the voters are black. He was adamant it would happen, citing the Rev. Jesse Jackson's win there in 1988. Sharpton didn't win.

During that same primary, former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun also ran for the Democratic nomination. Her campaign was about as ineffectual as Sharpton's, and few people, even black folks, backed her.

and Powell owes Sununu and no one else an explanation other that what he said on CBS's morning show, citing Romney's confusing foreign policy views and Obama's steady leadership.

"When he took over, the country was in very, very difficult straits. We were in one of the worst recessions we had seen in recent times, close to a depression," Powell said. "We were in real trouble.

"I saw over the next several years stabilization come back in the financial community. Housing is now starting to pick up after four years. It's starting to pick up. Consumer confidence is rising. So I think generally, we've come out of the dive, and we're starting to gain altitude. It doesn't mean we are problem solved. There are lots of problems still out there. The unemployment rate is too high. People are still hurting in housing. But I see that we are starting to rise up."

snood wrote:

I think its interesting how a couple of folks have had to stop by and make the point that yeah, some whites might vote for Romney because he's white but not nearly as much as blacks who vote for Obama because he's black! Don't you think that's interesting?

I'm not aware that anyone here made such an assertion.

I've no doubt that a great many white people will vote for Romney because he is white just as an even greater number of black people will vote for Obama because he is black.

Overall, the survey found that by virtue of racial prejudice, Obama could lose 5 percentage points off his share of the popular vote in his Nov. 6 contest against Republican challenger Mitt Romney. But Obama also stands to benefit from a 3 percentage point gain due to pro-black sentiment, researchers said. Overall, that means an estimated net loss of 2 percentage points due to anti-black attitudes

Every so-called 'African American' finding themselves in darkest Africa would
not identify themselves as such, they would identify themselves as an American.

It's almost 2013... if you must split Americans into groups,
'American' is the first descriptive word that should be used.

Let me ask my friends on the right a question:

Do you believe that some black people vote for Obama just because he's black?

We should end the dividing lables of race ID. Unless you were born somewhere else and then became an American citizen you are a regular American with no hyphen. I had a boss who was from Italy and received his citizenship after being here for about 14 years.. He is an Italian-American. My grandfather was born in Sicily and became a citizen back in the 1920's. He is an Italian-American, I was born here I'm an American. Since I was not born in Italy I am not an Italian American. Why do people insist on dividing themselves and each other with such labels.

I had always felt, over the last four years at least, that there were enough white men who would vote the issues rather than race. Lately it seems I could be wrong about that. Why would a flip flopping liar get their vote, when he wants to dismantle their Social Security and has no clue how to get jobs, as well as further the top 1% at their expense? Race has to in some way be an influence here.

I don't know, obviously.
We were a block or two off of a major highway.
There probably has been prostitution in that old town over decades.
Ugly to my niece.

There aren't that many people of color in that area. That was very strange to me at first.

That is strange to me in Albuquerque too.
I've lots of interesting neighbors, but no blacks.
I meet some in the market, once every three months or so, but I don't want to scare them by me, a somewhat smiling old woman.

For me it is plain foreign, this absence of blacks. This is a military town: I guess they cluster.

Snood, I'd like to hear you on this.

Thank you. She's good, years later, but stuff forms one. And naturally antagonisms go on. It's always been so, but sometimes raw hate amazes. Not that her situation was raw hate, but it's out there.

It's shocking as a guest to hear in your country, it must take a lead ear to ignore it at home.