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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