[lbo-talk] ABC News/Washington Post Poll: After the Conventions

Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Wed Sep 10 08:28:39 PDT 2008



>>> "shag"

yeah. that's why sites like boughetto news and jack and jill politics are big obama fans. oh no. they don't hate ghetto blacks or anything....

^^^ CB: Nonetheless, the overwhelming majority of Black _voters_ are working class , and they don't have a visceral dislike of working class people ( themselves), like James said. It's a big lie that most of Obama's voters don't "like" working class people, but most McCain supporters " like" working class people.

And one reason this lie gets over is the people saying it "forget" that most Black _voters_ are working class. Also, it ignores the white working class supporters of Obama, who are many.

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http://boughettonews.blogspot.com/ http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/

and then there's my discussion of Lawrence Graham's _Our Kind of People_ on this list, which made it pretty clear that there's an upper echelon of black folk in this country that spend a lot of their time trying to be the right kind of black. Where Jesse Jackson isn't quite right, but Colin Powell and Obama are.

90% of VOTING blacks love obama.

^^^ CB: And 90% of VOTING Black people are working class.

What's the "right kind of Black" ?

And Jesse Jackson got support from Black voters of middle strata , too.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2008/01/obama_2008_vs_jackson_1988.html

How Jackson fared on Super Tuesday 1988* White voters Black voters Alabama 6% 95% Arkansas 6 93 Florida 7 87 Georgia 6 93 Kentucky 7 -- Louisiana 6 96 Maryland 11 88 Massachusetts 16 -- Mississippi 6 92 Missouri 12 -- North Carolina 7 94 Oklahoma 8 84 Rhode Island 16 70 Tennessee 5 95 Texas 14 92 Virginia 14 95 *Data from ABC News Exit polls. "--"

^^^^

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