Disappointment in Obama leads some African Americans to ask: Is voting even worth it?

[JustAnotherGen]

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This article appears to be less about Obama - and more about Clinton.

A Washington Post-ABC News poll released last week found that 75 percent of African Americans thought that Clinton understood the problems of “people like you,” as opposed to 91 percent who felt that way about Obama in a survey last fall.

“At least with Obama, he gave pride to our young men and was a good role model,” said Daniel “Happy Jack” Cobb Jr., 73, the owner of Happy Jack’s Grocery and Market on Jacksonville’s north side. “Hillary needs to prove to us that she’s genuine and really true. And I’m not even sure that would help. We’ve been snakebitten too many times before.”

Far from the palm-tree-lined, trendy corridors of this sprawling city in the northeast corner of Florida, some roads on the north side have no sidewalks. The major thoroughfares are home to Family Dollar stores and bail bondsmen and crab shacks that sit between large, fenced-in lots full of shaggy grass. In one area, contaminated soil from a trash incinerator put off plans for a redevelopment project.

Before 2008, many here felt singed by the contentious 2000 presidential election, when thousands of votes cast in the city’s black neighborhoods were among those nullified amid the legal battle that led to Republican George W. Bush’s narrow victory in the state.

Fast Forward to summer 2016 - Cruz has selected Santorum as a running mate . . .

The Democratic leadership committees and PACS start sneaking out there "blah people" commentary -

The Democratic candidate wins.

HRC, Sanders, O'Malley - doesn't matter.

I know there is resistance at DU to the idea that foaming at mouth bigotry came back in January 2009 - but it did. A black man rose to the office of the Presidency and it shattered them to the core. That's why the Right has ran on racism and sexism and homophobism the past few elections. They've won the House and the Senate on taking the country back (from the black man in the White House).

They were rewarded.

We all have a better chance of meeting the tree fairy in the next five minutes than them not using what has worked for them the past 6.5 years in 2016.

Their hatred is our strength.

And I'll be out doing what I always do in Camden, Newark, Irvington, Elizabeth etc etc - and I'll be doing it with 8 years of quotes from the two candidates on the Right. If its Pataki - it's going to be tough. But Bush - I can go all the way back to to 2000 and show he was complicit in the disenfranchisement of black people in Florida.

Don't under estimate the power of being vindictive when GOTV.

This article gives Republicans false hope. The GOTV activists in the black AND Latino urban communities - we can be really vile when it comes to those people over there on the Right.