Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Noted Quote: Obama Is Black Enough Now

From A Column In The Washington Post ~ "Remember all the commentator chatter last summer: Is Barack Obama black enough? Well, he's black enough now. Obama has swamped Clinton among black voters in each of the 20 contests that had exit polls and large enough samples of African Americans to be meaningful. Just to put that kind of shutout in perspective, black voters represent the only demographic group that the New York senator has not carried at least once during the Democratic primary campaign. Obama now has such a lock on the loyalties of African Americans -- 84 percent of the black vote in Alabama, 87 percent in Georgia, 84 percent in Maryland, and on and on -- that the black vote is no longer contestable."

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