Blacks split evenly on Clinton and Obama

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Manchester Union Leader/AP: Blacks split evenly on Clinton and Obama
Blacks split evenly on Clinton and Obama
By ALAN FRAM
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Blacks are split down the middle over Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the presidential race, seeing both as on their side, a new poll says. At the same time, blacks and whites have starkly different perceptions of Obama's credentials, the Associated Press-Ipsos poll said yesterday. Blacks are significantly more satisfied than whites that the youthful Illinois senator has sufficient experience to be president. Many blacks seem torn between the two. Obama would be the first black president, while the New York senator and former first lady, along with her husband, is widely popular among blacks....

Blacks make up about a tenth of voters overall. They are reliably loyal Democrats, voting nearly nine-to-one for the party's candidates in the 2004 and 2006 elections. And while blacks are few in New Hampshire and Iowa, they comprise about half the Democratic primary voters in South Carolina, another early voting state....

In the late September poll, Clinton led Obama among whites by 35 percent to 18 percent. Blacks were essentially evenly divided, 40 percent for Obama and 38 percent for Clinton. Among all Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, Clinton led by 35 percent to 23 percent. All those measurements have been steady for months in the AP-Ipsos poll.

Faced with choosing between two potential White House firsts -- the first black president or the first female -- black women split 47 percent for Clinton, 37 percent for Obama. Clinton has led decisively among all women nationally....Black men leaned toward supporting Obama over Clinton by 44 percent to 28 percent, and he had an edge among younger black voters -- the opposite of her lead among all men and young people. He also gets stronger support from college-educated blacks -- one of the few areas where he leads Clinton overall.

The nation is evenly split over whether Obama has enough experience for the White House, but with clear racial differences....On an issue that pits those credentials against Clinton's longer resume, blacks by 66 percent to 23 percent said Obama is sufficiently experienced to be president. Whites said "no" by 48 percent to 40 percent, and even white Democrats divided evenly over whether his experience was satisfactory....Some blacks in the survey said doubts about Obama's experience represent a racial double standard because President Bush -- deeply unpopular among blacks -- had been only Texas governor before his 2000 election victory....

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1. Regarding that last line...

...in 2000 I was warning people that Gore would be in command the moment he sat down while six months after inauguration, Bush will figure out where the men's room is.

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2. Is it possible he's still wandering in search of it?

:)

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5. It would explain why he always seems so distracted. nt

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7. LOL!

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3. As an African - American Woman

I have an inclination to Obama, but both he and Hillary are
too one sided when it comes to matters pertainng to Israel and
both are heavily influenced by corporate money. Beyonce Welch
- Hoping to Live in A Saner America.

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4. Thanks for posting, and welcome to DU, proudleftists!

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6. The support for Israel may not have much to do with national defense...

...but it has everything to do with imperial defense. If the USA is the center of a global national/corporate empire, then the empire must be able to strike at threats to what makes the empire possible: in this case oil. Using Israel as the imperial hit man in the Middle-East let's the empire do what it needs to do while maintaining plausible deniability.