They are significantly more likely to vote for the black guy versus a white candidate. {Poasted via palm pilot}
I guess you don't understand the point. At that point all people knew about him was that he was a black guy, but they still liked Hillary better. After actually getting to know him as a candidate, that changed.
your confusing favorability versus support/voting. A person may think someone that is not black would be more suitable for the job, but they will put in the black person in anyways. This is institutional in nature. {Poasted via palm pilot}
If a black voter endorsed a black Republican, you guys would have a point. But a moderate black voter backing a Democrat is the default paradigm, not some racially-motivated exception to the rule as you pretend.
about 90% voted for Gore and kerry. So maybe you can say that for about 7%. Unless kerry and gore are black.
How hard is it to understand. You can look more favorably on someone yet choose/vote for someone else due to other external factors (i.e. Race). This study looked at favorability. People likely thought that Clinton was probably more qualified for the job, but when it came time to vote, they just voted for the black guy. Suppose for a second you have two candidates to get into Harvard Law School. One is a "B" student and the other is an "A" student. The B student is black. When looking at the grades and the candidates you would look more favorably on the "A" student and feel they would do a better job. However, due to affirmative action you take the "B" student.
It's just a known fact that black people really don't understand national issues and only vote for Obama because he is black. Powell can't hold two thoughts together and has no real opinion about politics or life. he will endorse someone if they are black, well because that is what black people do. Now white people, they don't vote according to race. They are smarter than that and are able to see the issues. They vote for Romney because he will be better for the economy, not because he is white. Black people are incapable of thinking beyond black and white. Just ask el presidente, he is will vote to put an Asian in as president, no matter the candidates . . . he will tell you not to blame him, it's institutional in nature.
Yes, Obama in 2008. His views are pretty much Democratic and he's a Republican in name only. A moderate Republican, Powell is well known for his willingness to support liberal or centrist causes. He is pro-choice regarding abortion, and in favor of "reasonable" gun control. He stated in his autobiography that he supports affirmative action that levels the playing field, without giving a leg up to undeserving persons because of racial issues. Powell was also instrumental in the 1993 implementation of the military's don't ask, don't tell policy, though he later supported its repeal as proposed by Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen in January 2010, saying "circumstances had changed".
Reasonable and open-minded, a man whose party has shifted so dramatically out from underneath him, he identifies more with the other party now. It happens.
Funny. I think the party wanting to grow the role of government from 20% to 25%-30% with trillion dollar plus deficits as far as the eye can see is the one that's shifted dramatically.
yes Mitt does want to dramatically increase military spending (the government) as opposed to reeling it in like the President... lord knows starting another war in the Middle East won't be free. And despite massively slashing basic social services, the Ryan budgets offer zero relief from the deficit for as far as the eye can see because they grant even more tax cuts to the top 1% like you. Not surprising that his budgets don't pass basic math since PR voted for all of the Bush budgetary blunders that got us here Glad to see you come around to reality STOMP
I'd link his endorsement of Obama more with his going to the UN to prove Iraq had WMDs. I'd also consider that his alternative (Romney) may not be to his liking at all. I can see that. I can also see that he kept quiet until it looked like Obama was ahead enough that he was endorsing a winner. If it is about race, I think that's fine, too. But I don't see the argument that he's so moderate he can't be a republican. Rudy Giuliani is a great republican, IMO, and he's pro choice and pro gun control among other moderate positions.
There used to be a lot of moderate republicans but they have mostly vanished over the past 20 years. Too bad, because I would rather vote for a good moderate republican than a bad Dem. But, I would rather vote for a bad Dem then a good right wing conservative. Luckly for me, most Dems are actually good, so it makes the choices easy.
