A Woman President?

[tekla]

well yes, as long as your doing the research.  Polling figures, and voter registration numbers are important here.

and, BTW, the US Census department does not list "Hispanic" as a a singular classification.  So where do those numbers really come from?

OK, from the CIA Factbook

white 81.7%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%, Amerindian and Alaska native 1%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.2% (2003 est.)
note: a separate listing for Hispanic is not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean a person of Latin American descent (including persons of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin) living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group (white, black, Asian, etc.)

Given the number of Hatians and Cubans who ID as black, the number is more than 15, hence, rounded up to 20.

And, the number of AAs in like North Dakota is less than 100, those numbers are grouped in the South, more than the rural midwest, or InterMountian states.

[buttercup]

Have you counted the number of African-Americans in the country of late?  (or even in Jefferson's time)   The entire Jim Crow system was based on minority control of a majority.  States that have not gone blue since pre-Nixon, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, are all going to show up and vote the brother in.  He has it in a walk. 

Even ignoring that, the person who can speak beats the person who can't.  Obama is a gifted public speaker, McCain is like listening to paint dry.

Ok, I agree Obama is a gifted speaker but Bush???  He cannot string two sentences together to save his life!  So what does that mean?  Are American Presidents just figure heads?  Is it who is behind them that is doing all the work?

[NicholeW.]

Louisiana: http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/census2000/louisiana/state.htm
Mississippi: http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/census2000/mississippi/state.htm
Alabama: http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/census2000/alabama/state.htm
Georgia: http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/census2000/georgia/state.htm
Florida: http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/census2000/florida/state.htm
South Carolina: http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/census2000/southcarolina/state.htm

Not so Deep South:
Arkansas: http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/census2000/arkansas/state.htm
Texas: http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/census2000/texas/state.htm
Tennessee: http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/census2000/tennessee/state.htm
North Carolina: http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/census2000/northcarolina/state.htm
Virginia: http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/census2000/virginia/state.htm
Kentucky: http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/census2000/kentucky/state.htm
Missouri: http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/census2000/missouri/state.htm
Maryland: http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/census2000/maryland/state.htm
Delaware: http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/census2000/delaware/state.htm

Detroit possibly houses more African-Americans than do some of those states. 81% of the total population of Detroit. Like many people one extrapolates who one lives among to an entire population.

The figures came from the census bureau, I didn't include the breakdowns for hispanics as a group. If I had the AA population rose to 12.4%. Rather less than 20 and how many states have 80% total population for a group that is 12% or so of the total population?



So, the vote Obama has been getting in the southern states is not due to AA voters, but, I would suggest to ALL voters.

N~

Of course, you could just say you were mistaken with your estimates.

[tekla]

Are American Presidents just figure heads?  Is it who is behind them that is doing all the work?

Why yes, of course.  Starting with the Federal Reserve, which in political terms is as 'federal' as Federal Express.