From Wikipedia:
White Black AIAN Asian NHPI
2000 (total population) 90.13% 8.91% 0.65% 1.21% 0.08%
Lifted right offa Wikipedia.
The Black population on Indiana is 8.91%
Thats eight point nine one percent, for those of us with a cognitive deficiency when it comes to numbers.
Now, I never claimed to be a math whiz...I took "terminal math" in college which teaches you to count your toes in Binary and in Hex and maybe in Urdu as well (I may have skipped that day.)
But I don't think it takes a PhD in theoretical mathematics to figure out this simple fact:
A LOT OF WHITE PEOPLE VOTED FOR OBAMA IN INDIANA! And I mean A LOT!!!
So this nonsense about Obama not connecting with white voters is total CRAP.
PLUS is totally belies the canard that black people only vote for Obama because he is black. (Sure, that may be a factor, but I can pretty much GUARANTEE that if Obama were some kind of looney toon or even just a run of the mill activist candidate without serious upside a LOT of black people would have voted for Hillary.)
It calls this in to question because if the only reason a black person votes for Obama is his skin color, WHAT in the HELL is making all these crazy Indiana Blanquitos do the same thing?
Can the Punditry and the Media, and the blogosphere PLEASE Move past Identity Politics??
Pretty Please???
Race: Its a factor sure, but a factor like Bill Clinton Being a Southern Boy, or McCain being old as dirt, or Huckabee being a Baptist, or Hillary being a woman, or Al Gore being a Birch tree. Its the easiest and most idetifiable characteristic of these candidates and everyone is still running around yelling about what everyone knows and everyone sees.
I'd like some substance please. I think I might starve to death without some substance.
Pretty Please???