[lbo-talk] black primary turnout

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sun Jun 22 07:51:59 PDT 2008


On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Doug Henwood wrote:


> At last Thursday's Obama panel at the Brecht Forum, Gary Younge took
> my wet-blanketism to task for devaluing the enthusiasm of Obama's
> supporters. He cited a marked increase in black turnout as evidence.
> Apparently that's not exactly right:
>
> <http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Politics/story?id=5202366&page=1>
>
> Turnout was up across the board

Isn't that last line making Younge even more right than he knew? That would seem to be evidence of greater enthusiasm across the board, not just among blacks.

Michael



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