2007-12-12 15:44:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Very stupid.
2007-12-12 15:51:59 · answer #1 · answered by MadforMAC 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's a pretty racist and thoughtless question. Kind of Like will all women be voting for Hillary Clinton. It scares me to think that the color of a candidates skin, or their sex would be a determinate factor in their electability, - over real issues such as the planks in their platform, their voting record in office, or their proclaimed alignment and support of the major issues of the day.
What's next? Elect the most consistently well dressed? Vote for the best hair style? To a certain extent, I guess I can not say I am suprised, - when you see these man-in-the-street interviews that are conducted every so often on High School and University Campus', and in Downtown Business Districts, and people are chosen at random and asked to correctly identify the answer to such banal questions as:
Who is the Vice president of the USA?
Who are their State Senators?
Who are their State Representatives?
Can they locate their state on a map showing state outlines?
Who were the first 3 presidents?
Who preceded Richard M Nixon in Office, and who followed ?
How many states are in the Union?
Can you Name one of the USA Protectorate's?
What is the USA's relationship to Puerto Rico? Samoa? Fiji?
Who dropped the first Atomic Bomb? Where? On who?
Who is the Mayor of their Town?
What are 15 of the first 25 Amendments?
What are the Bill of Rights? Name 5 of the them.
What is the Miranda Warning.
This is the freest, richest, safest and greatest country in the world, and yet we take so much of what we have for granted and complain about so much of that. We complain about the Governmant and taxes, but less than 25% generally vote in in State & National elections I'm told.
I have nothing against Barack H. Obama, but I can't help but wonder how I would feel if I was an Illinois Democrat who elected him to the US Senate in '04, only to have him turn right around as the Junior Senator from my State and make his bid for the Presidentcy.
I mean He do did a term as a State Senator from '97 to '03, then got himself elected to the US Senate in '04, and barely started moving into his offices on the hill, when he makes his bid for the White House.
I admire his ambition, but I wonder if I would not feel like I'd been used as a stepping stone not just once, but twice in just 4 years, by someone who used the State & Citizens of Illinois as a convienient vehicle to ride to his penultament ambition and seat of power, much the same as Hillary Clinton used the State of New York as a convienient vehicle to further her own ambitions, and NY be damned.
Course that's just my opinion, and I am sure that Mr. Obama's appeal is much more far reaching that just Black Americans today, due in no small part I think to Oprah's endorsement of late. Whatever the outcome the electorial, - not the people will have spoken. God bless America !!
2007-12-12 16:38:11 · answer #2 · answered by jtrall25 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not a chance. First off not all blacks are registered to vote in the first place. Second, not all blacks think the same way, neither do all white people, so again no. Third and lastly im sure many black people are fans of hiliary clinton much like they favored bill clinton, im sure many black females will be giving her their vote.
2007-12-12 15:55:41 · answer #3 · answered by Jimmy V 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not necessarily. Smart people are voting for him. Thats why hes not ahead... yet. Cuz america is too ignorant to see his brilliance.
2007-12-12 15:53:57 · answer #4 · answered by John 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My guess is no. I don't think you can generalize 30 million people quite so easily.
2007-12-12 15:51:33 · answer #5 · answered by Scott Evil 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋