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On 15-7-2009 20:22, Neeum Zawan wrote:
> On 07/15/09 11:56, andrel wrote:
>>> What many find troublesome, however, is that 99% of black Americans
>>> who voted did so for Obama, but the press made nothing of it.
>>
>> I tried to find any statistics, but I couldn't find anything. Do you
>> have info that supports up this claim?
>
> 99% is a stretch (although I didn't check for this election), but
> 90% typically vote Democrat. I had once found a web site that had all
> kinds of statistics, including breakdown by race/ethnicity, which
> confirmed this all the way back to the 70's.
I seem to remember much lower figures from the previous elections. Which
were probably more religion influenced than those before.
> So in a sense, the huge figure is probably not that much related to
> race as it is political affiliation.
or social status, which is correlated to race.
> However, I believe exit polls
> generally showed that race was a factor in this past election, and not
> just for blacks, but also for whites. (They were explicitly asked if it
> was a factor).
>
> I saw this a while ago, and I suspect it may shed some light (I
> forget the details):
>
>
> http://www.ted.com/talks/nate_silver_on_race_and_politics.html
There are still people in favor of banning interracial marriages?
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