Voltaire — To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Obama, gays and the black vote
Obama won North Carolina in 2008 by a mere 14,000 votes, thanks largely to a huge black turnout. Nationally, 95% of black voters chose Obama and 2 million more black people voted than in 2004. African-Americans have historically been more hostile to gays and lesbians than other racial and ethnic groups. Only 39% of African-Americans favor gay marriage, compared with 47% of white Americans, according to a Pew poll conducted in April 2012. Forty-nine per cent of blacks and 43% of whites are opposed. Black voters, led by black churches, have played key roles in blocking same-sex marriage in states like California, where 2008 exit polls indicated about 70% black opposition, and Maryland, where black Democrats were part of a statehouse coalition that stalled a gay marriage bill in 2011.
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