> [more issue detail at original]
>
> <http://www.gallup.com/poll/112807/Blacks-Conservative-Republicans-Some-Moral-Issues.aspx>
>
>
> December 3, 2008
>
> Blacks as Conservative as Republicans on Some Moral Issues
> One explanation: Black Democrats are much more religious than nonblack
> Democrats
>
> by Frank Newport
>
> PRINCETON, NJ -- Only 31% of black Democrats in America say homosexual
> relations are morally acceptable, roughly the same as the 30% of
> Republicans who agree, while very much different from the 61% of
> nonblack Democrats who say homosexual relations are morally acceptable.
>
Judging from this...
http://www.aflcio.org/mediacenter/prsptm/pr11052008a.cfm
> * Obama won among white men who are union members by 18 points while
> losing that group by 16 points in the general public;
>
> * Obama won among union gun owners by a 12-point margin while losing
> that group in the general public by 25 points;
>
> * Union veterans voted for Obama by a 25-point margin. He lost among
> that group in the general public by nine points;
...it seems that social conservatism is completely neutralized as a political force by (1) union membership; and (2) black skin.
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