The NY Times gets this one right. Go figure.
I’ve long said the notion that black voters’ support for President Obama was somehow “wavering” was complete garbage. Certainly the right is trying to sell that idiocy, most notably Dick Morris. But now the NY Times has found that the president’s support among the black community continues to be massive and overwhelming.
Outside Washington, however, the story is markedly different. Mr. Obama’s support among African-Americans appears strikingly strong, even among many who are out of work, who might be expected to complain the loudest.
In a recent Pew Research Center poll, black voters preferred Mr. Obama 95 percent to 3 percent over Mitt Romney, “which is at least the margin he got in 2008,” said Michael Dimock, associate director for research at Pew. “There’s no erosion at all.”
Even more noteworthy, less than 10 percent of black voters in a New York Times/CBS News survey taken last month said that Mr. Obama had failed to meet their expectations as president, while nearly 3 in 10 said he had exceeded expectations. Among nonblack voters, 4 in 10 said he performed worse than expected, while only 5 percent said he had done better.
For many African-Americans, the main reason to support Mr. Obama is easy to cite. They argue that the modern Republican Party protects the rich at the expense of the poor, is hostile to social programs and thinks the way to fix the economy is solely through a trickle-down approach.
“We already know what the Republican Party is offering,” said Mr. Bennett, 57, the former Cooper Industries employee, a plant supervisor before he lost his job. “And we don’t want that.”
Mr. Hart said, “Look at the choice we got with those Republicans.”
Sometimes reality is so simple and easily explainable, it absolutely dumbfounds the pundits. It’s almost as if the approach by the GOP to assume black voters are “too stupid to know the Democrats are keeping them on the Plantation” is not only completely incorrect (and not to mention absolutely insulting) but that it’s backfiring. I’d say that it also meant that the GOP’s rancorous stupidity is driving black voters back to the President, but the larger point is we never left him because we knew exactly what to expect when you’re the first black anything in American history.
The GOP is completely invested in saying otherwise, of course. Almost like they have a healthy fear of people exercising their right to vote.
Thanks for spotlighting this, Zandar.
I note that the NYT article trots out the List of Kneegrows Who Hate Obama, as well as repeating the lie that Obama was speaking to black VOTERS, not the CBC, when he told them to quit whining. But overall a good article.
White, chubby, atheist voters of jewish heritage currently wearing my second favorite B.B. King concert t-shirt are also steady and strong behind President Obama and always have been as well!
Thank you, Zandar! Great post.
…even among many who are out of work, who might be expected to complain the loudest…
People who have always been last hired, first fired, are not going to blame a President who’s doing everything he can to change that.
“…we knew exactly what to expect when you’re the first black anything in American history.”
Yep. Lots of grief.
Steady and strong for PBO. Yes.
I regard the issue as: getting out the vote.
This pasty white rosacea suffering middle aged woman of Irish-Italian heritage also supports Obama, and during her many discussions of him among her numerous black acquaintances and friends has never heard an ill word against him or ANY indication that they are disappointed. They are proud of his accomplishments, as am I.
“Love this!”
Another group whose support has never waivered is friends of Glix. Even the ones who were staunch Hillary supporters in the primary love our President.
One good thing that has come from the Obama-is-doomed media message is that my friends who were never active during elections before have decided the President needs them to help GOTV and will be working for the party next year. This makes me do my happy dance.
I Just saw a link in Newsweek with a poll showing how Hillary would beat the republican candidates by a larger margin than President Obama. SMH @ How they are so desperately trying to show this president in a negative light. Not to mention how they are constantly trying to put Hillarys supporters against him. It only shows their desperation in trying to defeat him. We will see to it that they fail miserably!
I know. People just need to let it go.