Indiana is less than 10% African American

Yet Obama took 49% of the vote in the primary....

I thought Clinton said whites don't support Obama?

Which is filled with african americans and egghead yuppie scum.

The problem is obvious, we don't need a higher education in America we just need people who claim they could of got one :P

Jeez.

But, you know, numbers, math.... :rofl: some folks will ignore the facts :hi:

Sorry. Had to say it. :evilgrin:

:rofl:

The fact that a state with a racist reputation like Indiana did not take the Rev. Wright trash was a great moment in American political history.

Indiana's also among the most Republican of states. I would say that Indiana's democrats have a higher %-age of African Americans.

Colorado, Washington, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Utah.....


I suspect there are more African-Americans in my hometown (Detroit), than all of those states combined.

Obama recieved 92% of their votes.

Obama inspiring record turnout among a traditionally-underrepresented Democratic stronghold demographic.

According to the census.gov, in 2006 8.9% of IN was black.

Now unless it jumped up 10% in 2 years, you're just pulling numbers out of your ass.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/18000.html

18% of the electorate in Indiana on Tuesday was black.

The blacks had the higher turn out. Also, almost all Indiana's blacks are Democrats - the same is NOT true of whites.

Stop being disingenuous.

You are saying it's double that.

Has there been a mass influx of blacks into Indiana in the past 9 years?

When you consider that very few blacks vote Republican, I think 18% is what the turnout should have been expected to be.

independents and Republicans, 18% is a very high turnout indeed. It's a good thing to see.

Is that what these figures mean?

Question?

Haven't we really had 50 primaries or caucuses if we count all of them
including the overseas vote, Virgin islands, Guam ETC?

50-56?

next she'll try using the fact that Obama does well among college-educated voters to further her argument that he's elitist and out of touch, and only appeals to white "latte-liberals".

It really is a puzzler why anyone would want to put her joke of a campaign team up against McCain in the fall.

if we're talking about primary results.

According to the CNN exit polls, 17 percent of the voters in the primary were AA. THey supported Obama 89/11. FOrty percent of white voters in the primary supported Obama.

As for the suggestion that Obama has inspired AA voters to turn out in greater numbers, that's likely, but impossible to actually prove without a comparison to previous years.

The following example will illustrate why its not necessarily the case. Assume that there are 1000 registeredvoters in Indiana. Half of them vote in the Democratic primary. Nine percent (90) of the total registered voters are AA and 95 percent (85.5) of those AA voters are Democrats. Out of the 500 registered voters that cast ballots in the Democratic primary, 17 percent are the AA voters.

it was the "bright indigo" people of Indiana who voted for him

We need a majority for the Democrats. Who cares what is the mix?

didn't you get Hillarity's memo?

It's bullshit that whites won't vote for him. Though, to be fair, I don't think that's what most have said. They HAVE generalized to say that working-class whites won't support him, which I also think is bullshit. No, some won't. But just because HRC was their first choice doesn't mean "they" won't vote for Obama. Just look below -- Vermont & Connecticut (e.g.) are significantly majority white and had primaries. I know the voters in those states don't count because they're small states, but all of the results below (including caucuses!!) belie that argument.

State & percentage of population considered caucasian (I personally think 99.9% of us are mixed, but never mind)

Iowa caucuses 91.5% white
South Carolina primary 65.5%
Alabama primary 69.3
Alaska 66.5
Colorado caucuses 72.1
Connecticut primary 75.4
Delaware primary 69.6
Georgia 59.6
Idaho caucuses 87
Illinois primary 65.8
Kansas caucuses 81.6
Minnesota caucuses 86.3
Missouri primary 82.9
Utah primary 83.5
Louisiana primary 61.6
Nebraska caucuses 85.4
Washington caucuses 77.1
Maine caucuses 96
Washington, DC primary 38.4 (2006) http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/11000.html
Maryland primary 59.2
Virginia primary 68.2
Hawaii caucuses 23.5
Wisconsin primary 86
Texas caucuses 49.2
Vermont primary 95.9
Wyoming caucuses 88.6
Mississippi primary 59.7
North Carolina primary 68

I've listed whether it was a primary or caucus to dispel the bullshit argument that in white states he wins only because they're caucuses (yep, I've heard a few people argue this).

*Percentage source: US Census Bureau, 2005 stats http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/ranks/rank16d.htm

Sorry, but this just doesn't jive with the Clinton spin.

:evilgrin:

I'm not supposed to read and think for myself. My bad! PLEASE don't report me to Homeland Security!