i'm a white man in alabama............................

Quote Originally Posted by dyounger:

While i agree this is a big step for america having a black president.

 

I think people are voting for him because of that and not the facts

 

Kinda like Joe PA and penn st getting into the national championship.  People will be voting him in because it feels good and he deserves it becauses hes old and we feel sorry for him.

 

Voting with your heart

People have never and most likely will never vote with anything other than their heart...why? because the education system doesn't provide a intellectual base for those who want to make informed decisions and the media decides joe the plumber is a bigger issue than international policy and/or health care reform, etc.

Now that a black man is going to be president, people cry "ITS ALL A SHAM. HIS WHOLE PLATFORM IS AN ACT. JUST A WORD....CHANGE...AND PEOPLE BUY THIS!!"....yes they do buy it...like they've bought it for every single president that has come before them...for cripes sake, bill clinton garnered a signifigant percentage of the 18-25 year old vote because he was able to play a saxaphone on MTV in 1992 

your 100% right, but the difference is.. there always will be that "some factor".. some whites, some women, some men.. as in far less than 50%...

in the black community it is far more than 80% which is un-real.. and you can't argue they're all in favor of Obamas policies, b/c, like i have stated, more than "some" have no idea of his policies, and just throw around non-sense on why they're voting for him, when the real reason is b/c he's black.

quite pathetic that the "some" factor, that is ALWAYS there.. has turned into 80+%

ya it's crazy the % of blacks that voted for obama.  I'm seeing 95-96% in exit polls.  And like u said, most can't even give good reasons why they voted for obama.  I'm just astonished by the percentages here.  I figured it would be around 75%, but 96%....DAMN!