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In reply to the discussion: Obama says Democrats lost by not showing up [View all]fiorello
(182 posts)The African-American vote for Hillary Clinton was approximately 10% lower than the vote for Obama.
The African-American vote for Obama what is approximately 10% higher than the vote for Kerry, Gore, and Bill Clinton.
African-American voters turned out in greater numbers to vote for the first ever African-American president. Of course they did! And they turned out to vote for Hillary Clinton also, but not quite the same numbers.
Hillary did no worse with African-Americans then any other white candidate for president, and actually had a slightly higher A. A. turnout than Bill Clinton did.
I am sympathetic to a lot of the criticisms, also-I would like to see more attention paid to a unifying message for all Americans, and more attention paid to the suffering white working class. But I would think that even if Hillary had one in a landslide. Let's stop blaming her for lagging behind the first African-American president in turn out, for (Christmas-related expletive deleted).