All I'm saying is that Obama has almost 90% support among black folk. Of course, translating that support to voting on election day is crucial, but pretending that black folks are running away from Obama in significant numbers to vote for McCain or some other candidate is just plain wrong.
I never said blacks were running from Obama in significant numbers NOW .. but there is an undeniable number of blacks who have moved away from him AND if this trend continues there will be a significant number who move away.
Additionally, it won't take a large percentage of blacks to reject Obama before it becomes significant. He needs a huge number of blacks to vote for him if he has any chance of winning. He m,ay have 90% of blacks who are going to vote, but that percentage is misleading because he needs 90% of HUGE numbers.
Nor did I EVER imply that blacks were going to vote for McCain at anytime. They don't have to vote for McCain .. they can simply stay home, or vote for McKinney.
Stop pretending that he isn't losing support.
Poll: Obama losing key support
By Steven Thomma
WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama has lost ground among some of his strongest bases of support, including young people, women, Democrats and independents, according to a new ATV/Zogby poll.
The Illinois Democrat has also lost some support among African-Americans and Hispanics, where his lead over Republican Sen. John McCain has shrunk, and among Catholics, where he's lost his lead.
The net result, pollster John Zogby found, is a race that's neck and neck, with McCain supported by 42 percent; Obama by 41 percent; Libertarian Bob Barr by 2 percent; and independent Ralph Nader by 2 percent. Another 13 percent supported other candidates or were undecided.
Zogby called the results a "notable turnaround" from a July survey he did that showed Obama leading by 46-36.
"McCain made significant gains at Obama's expense among some of what had been Obama's strongest demographic groups," Zogby said.
His findings:
Among voters aged 18-29, Obama lost 16 percent and McCain gained 20. Obama still leads, 49-38;
Among women, McCain gained 10 percentage points. Obama now leads 43-38.
Among independents, Obama lost an 11 point lead. They're now tied.
Among Democrats, Obama's support dropped from 83 percent to 74 percent.
Among Catholics, Obama lost the 11 point lead he had in July and now trails McCain by 15.
Zogby said Obama also lost ground among minorities.
http://themoderatevoice.com/politic...a-losing-support-from-women-and-independents/
Additionally, many in the black media are tearing Obama a new asshole .. as they should. They will affect black voters.
Imperialism With a Black Face
"The time for blindly rooting for the Brother will be over."
If Barack Obama succeeds in winning the presidency, Black America will be put to a test that will define its political and moral character for generations. We will discover if African Americans are really the kind of progressive, compassionate, humanity-loving people that Martin Luther King thought we were, that Malcolm X was so confident we were, and that the political record up to this juncture in history seems to indicate we are.
The African American reputation as the most consistently progressive ethnic group in the United States will stand or fall according to how Blacks comport themselves, politically, under a Barack Obama administration. Obama has not earned the Black vote; he has in fact treated African Americans very shabbily, singling them out for cultural criticisms that he would never direct against whites, Latinos or Asians. So-called Black "leadership" has abdicated all claim to the title, by failing to make even the most modest demands of Obama. As a consequence, Obama owes Blacks nothing, having promised them nothing. But that has not mattered for the vast majority of African Americans, who, like their timid leaders, have paid little attention to issues of substance during this campaign. Rather, they are consumed by centuries of pent-up aspirations to see a Black face in the highest place in the land.
"The world will come to hate him as they have other American presidents."
If that day comes, as conventional wisdom says is likely, the test of African American morality, good character and collective wisdom, begins. The time for blindly rooting for The Brother will be over. The many voices of an evolving planet will suddenly intervene to make their own demands on the American presidency. And unless Obama turns out to be the fictional "Spook Who Sat by the Door" - a closet progressive and Race Man whose been fooling the Imperialists and Warmongers and Lords of Capital and Reagan Democrats and all the other bagmen for corruption he's been sucking up to - he will respond as the corporate politician and military expansionist that he is. He will close ranks with the same finance capitalists that are cannibalizing the last remnants of American industry, as he has many times publicly promised to do. He will leave the Bush Gang's multitudinous crimes uninvestigated and unpunished - a promise repeated just days ago - thus leaving intact a veritable pirates' map for future criminality. (Why not in his own administration?) And he will rush to maintain the momentum of American Manifest Destiny, just as he has repeatedly said he would, had only Blacks and progressives been listening.
Barack Obama has given his solemn word that he will substantially increase the U.S. military budget, and will follow the Bush Doctrine of preemptive attack if he deems it in U.S. interests. He will continue to militarize Africa through the U.S. Africa Command, Africom, which he heartily endorses. He will spread America's grasping tentacles deeper and further around the planet - and the world will come to hate him as they have other American presidents.
It is at this point, and it won't be long, that African Americans will have to decide: Are they prouder that there is a Black face in the nation's highest place, than they are ashamed that imperialism's face is Black?
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=716&Itemid=1
ADDITIONALLY, he is losing support from antiwar groups and the left .. who put his ass in position to be president.
Is Barack Obama Losing Left-Liberal Support Already?
http://www.radicalleft.net/blog/_archives/2008/7/10/3784019.html
"Typical is a column Tuesday by Bob Herbert in the New York Times, entitled “Lurching with abandon.”
An unabashed supporter of Obama over the course of the primary campaign, Herbert writes, “Obama’s strongest supporters are uneasy, upset, dismayed and even angry at the candidate who is now emerging in the bright light of summer.”
Obama, he continued, “is not just tacking gently to the center. He is lurching right when it suits him, and he’s zigging with the kind of reckless abandon that’s guaranteed to cause disillusion, if not whiplash.”
He notes, “There’s even concern that he’s doing the Obama two-step on the issue that has been the cornerstone of his campaign: his opposition to the war in Iraq.”
Herbert portrays the candidate’s recent positions as “clever panders” based on cynical electoral calculations.
He says that Obama is convinced that “in the long run none of this will matter, that the most important thing is winning the White House, that his staunchest supporters (horrified at the very idea of a President McCain) will be there when he needs them.”
The Times columnist warns, however, that this is “a very dangerous game for a man who first turned voters on by presenting himself as someone who was different, who wouldn’t engage in the terminal emptiness of politics as usual.”
