[lbo-talk] black primary turnout

[shag]

At 09:52 AM 6/22/2008, 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, and blacks, like other Democrats,
>increased their participation. But blacks did not vote in
>disproportionately greater numbers: They accounted for 19 percent of
>all Democratic primary voters, about the average for Democratic
>primaries in past years."

do these people just pull stuff out of their ass? this has been well-known 
for awhile. no sense that he might want to consult data to check his 
perception?

shag

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