Letters to the Editor
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billcap watch the numbers race by race though and read the article on Salon if you don't believe me
Even keeping Obama's support down to 80-20--which could have happened I argue, would have made a huge difference in this contest...had Clinton really tried to reach out.
Also, Obama didn't start getting 90% support until after South Carolina. Look at the numbers in relation to some of the Clintons actions as ask why they actually have seemed to impact the percentages by at least ten percent (he did not have 90% AA support in South Carolina)...a critical number...if Hillary Clinton could have kept this ten percent instead of giving it away.
Also, I notice that you don't say anything about precisely same number (90%) block support for Bill Clinton during his impeachment and he WAS white.... (?)
So I'm seriously not trying to insult you because you seem like 92% getting it...=), but I don't see why, theoretically, black people can't vote together without it being race based?
Or white people couldn't either, for that matter, theoretically?...
You are considering at least some numbers, but not others. Sych as the fact that African American support for Kerry and Al Gore were in the 80% plus range so I still think that if you add 10% for "racial insensitivity punishment" which arguably the Clintons have been committing, the numbers are actually consistent with the African American support of white candidates. I'm no mathmatician, but that's what the numbers say quite clearly to me.
Also, I can't help but ask...you don't think that her actions (or say Ferraro's or Bob Kerrey's or Bill's or her comments about MLK and LBJ or her speech about Obama not passing a threshold for commander in chief or Bill later saying that Obama played the race card on him...) played ANY part at all in this election? Not even a ten percent role?
Hmmmm....