>>BTW, which newspaper was it? Curious, doesn't the fact that Obama won the election and is now our President dispute that statement? If a lot of people really felt that way, how on earth did he win and then by such large margins?
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>I've heard that the percentage of participation has not been that high for black people in others elections. Perhaps this time the percentage of participation was very high. Add to that all those non-black people frustrated by Bush presidency and you can have a large margin for Obama.
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>Just a wild guess.

Obama carried every demographic except southern whites.