Gallup: McCain’s favorability rating down 25 points among blacks since last year
posted at 8:02 pm on June 6, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Note: This isn’t head to head with Obama, it’s a simple favorable/unfavorable rating of McCain himself. June 2007: 26/33, with 41 percent having no opinion. June 2008: 27/58, with 15 percent N/O. That’s actually less of a decline than Her Majesty, and less severe: She lost 26 points, and all of them seem to have come from the favorable column, not the no-opinioners.
I’m sitting here searching mentally for anything McCain might have said or done to alienate black voters and drawing a blank. Frankly, he tends to stay out of racial matters (“I don’t think I have to address the issue of race”), and to the extent that he involves himself, it’s to try to build bridges to the black community, however belatedly. Maybe this is the product of news circulating about how he initially opposed a holiday for MLK? Or is it just an artifact of more people getting to know him and realizing that he bears the Klannish stigma of belonging to the Republican Party?
Minor solace: His favorable rating’s actually increased a point, from 26 to 27 percent over the past year. Exit question: Is there anything any Republican can do at this point to win more than say, 15 percent of the black vote? Not against Obama, I mean, but against any generic Democratic candidate.
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McCain is turning off Conservatives, Blacks, Hispanics, and people who prefer a candidate who doesn’t hold them in contempt. So who’s going to be voting for him except Yellow Dog Republicans?
Snake307 on June 7, 2008 at 10:14 PM
McCain is turning off Conservatives, Blacks, Hispanics, and people who prefer a candidate who doesn’t hold them in contempt. So who’s going to be voting for him except Yellow Dog Republicans?
Snake307 on June 7, 2008 at 10:14 PM
His mom.
TexasJew on June 7, 2008 at 10:28 PM
Finally a racially motivated Presidential election. oh goody. If Obama loses what do we get? Riots in the streets? Jesse Jackson marching hand in hand protesting? hmmm, what if Jesse Jackson is VP? LOL…. omg…
johnnyU on June 8, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Squid, You obviously lack the education to understand what the Protestant Work Ethic is, yet you think your opinion matters. It isn’t just about working hard, it is also about how to give back.
And Jews and Catholics and Hindu’s etc didn’t found the country nor make it great. The country was overwhemlingly Protestant, and others joined that culture and became part of it.
Spartacus on June 8, 2008 at 4:46 PM
Oh like they would vote for him anyway. Come on Barry has the black vote for many reasons not just his skin color.
TroubledMonkey on June 8, 2008 at 4:53 PM
“Many in the black community are using racism to fight racism. In the end you just get more racism.”
Bull on the first part of that. They are using racism to get more welfare or affirmative action, or to get away with crimes. Black “leaders” have demonstrated that they are worthless, lazy, skimming parasites. And the people that support them are no better.
Spartacus on June 8, 2008 at 4:55 PM
A few months ago, Obama wasnt “black” enough for American blacks: he did not “share their history of slavery.”
Then Iowa happened.
Iowa wrecked the US. Thanks,idiots.After Qbama is done de-constructing a country he obviously hates,whats left over,what we will end up being,is due to the good folks of Iowa.
lizzee on June 8, 2008 at 7:45 PM
Simple!! The black community wants Obama in the WH. Nothing deeper than that.
jeanie on June 9, 2008 at 8:57 AM
Whatever. In the midst of such a “historic” identity-politics presidential campaign, you cannot seperate the two. I guarantee you that his favorability wouldn’t have dropped if HRC was the Democratic nominee. It probably would have gone up.
Beo on June 9, 2008 at 9:19 AM
This seems like a blinding flash of the obvious to me. In 2008 with a “historic” race-based opponent, McCain’s biggest problem is the fact that he hasn’t engaged in issues of race. The closest he’s come is pandering for Hispanic votes by his amnesty scheme last year.
highhopes on June 9, 2008 at 10:21 AM
Blacks have shown themselves, and it isn’t pretty. Over 90% will vote for Barak, just as over 90 always vote for the candidate that offers them the most welfare and excuses. Only now, they get to indulge in their racism, which was pretty obvious by the near-unanimous support for Obama over Hillary.
Disgusting.
Spartacus on June 10, 2008 at 3:45 PM
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