Air Bud
Internet Superstar
 Some plants even masturbate into their own vaginas in order to reproduce.
Ballkicks: (+918 / -56)
Posts: 6785 (0.96)
Reg. Date: Sep 2001
Location: TEH INTARNET!
Gender: Male |
Reply 8 of 74 (Originally posted on: 11-06-08 07:37:15 AM)
Edit Post
| Edit History
| Send PM
| Change Title
| Reply w/Quote
| Report Post
| Ignore
| Show All Posts
Quote: I got pretty tired of everybody saying that this election didn't involve race. What was it, 98% of black voters voted for him? That's as asinine as females voting for a woman just 'cause she had a va-jay-jay
You're forgetting that historically, black votes go overwhelmingly to Democrats instead of Republicans. In 2004, 88% of black votes were for Kerry in 2004, 90% for Gore in 2000, and 84% for Clinton in 1996.
CNN is showing 95% for 2008, but every organization has its own method, which are all flawed, so I'm not going to nitpick. Instead I'm just going to reiterate that historically, blacks vote Democrat, so pretending that all of a sudden blacks are voting for Obama because he's black ignores the fact that tend to vote Democrat, regardless of race.
Now, if Obama were running as a Republican and those numbers suddenly shifted over to them voting Republican, then you'd have a valid and damning argument.
Of course, there was very likely a large bump in the number of black voters, as well as a rise in the percentage of those that voted for Obama, but you have to ask yourself, of those voters, which of them would have voted Democrat regardless and which of those would've voted for Obama had he been on the Republican ticket?
Also: going to the inauguration would be pretty awesome just in general, but even more so this time around where it has a rather large scale historical impact. There's no way I'd be able to go though. Oh well.
|