NBC/WSJ poll: Romney's support among African-American voters: Zero percent

[KingOrfeo]

No, really.

A new NBC/WSJ poll out Tuesday shows President Barack Obama with a four-point lead over presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney. But as is often the case with polls, some of the more interesting numbers were in the details. For example? Romney snagged zero percent of African-American voters.

Among key demographics, the poll noted that Obama had a lead over Romney. The most stark being when it came to African Americans: 94 percent to 0 percent. Via NBC:

Looking inside the numbers, Obama continues to lead Romney among key parts of his political base, including African Americans (94 percent to 0 percent), Latinos (by a 2-to-1 margin), voters under 35-years-old (52 percent to 41 percent) and women (51 percent to 41 percent).

His lead among those groups isn’t surprising, but hard for the number zero not to catch a person’s attention.

Romney, meanwhile, is ahead with whites (53 percent to 40 percent), rural voters (47 percent to 38 percent) and seniors (49 percent to 41 percent). In a sample of 12 swing states, Obama had a three-point lead, “a narrower edge in these battlegrounds than the eight-point lead the president enjoyed in the June and July NBC/WSJ polls.”

The poll further identified two obstacles Romney has: his image and his Medicare overhaul proposal.

What’s more, Obama bests Romney by 35 points (58 percent to 23 percent) on the question of which candidate is more likeable, and by 22 points (52 percent to 30 percent) on caring about average people.

In addition, a majority of voters (51 percent) view the former Massachusetts governor’s approach to issues as being “out of step” with most Americans’ thinking. By comparison, 54 percent say Obama’s positions are “in the mainstream.”

Obama’s challenge? The economy. More than six in 10 said they think the country’s headed in the wrong direction (“essentially unchanged from last month”) — and 44 percent said Romney has better ideas on how to improve the economy, versus Obama’s 38 percent.

The poll “was conducted of 1,000 registered voters (300 reached by cell phone) from Aug. 16-20, and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points.”

 

[QueenLevitra]

My cream puff daddy is voting for the sitting POTUS.

Again.

He went with Bushwacker Jr. twice.

 

[blobfish]

My cream puff daddy is voting for the sitting POTUS.

Again.

He went with Bushwacker Jr. twice.

This illustrates the average undecided voter nicely.

 

[koalabear]

Dairy Queen Clerk Shoots Dead Samurai Sword-Wielding Robber

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dairy-queen-clerk-shoots-dead-samurai-sword-wielding-robber/

 

[bra_man69]

Crazy Facts About The Mindset Of College Freshmen Today

If you've never seen an actual airline ticket (no, that's not the same as a boarding pass), never mailed a first-class letter for less than 30 cents and never known Los Angeles to have a pro football team, then you might be an incoming college freshman.

So says the latest Beloit College Mindset List, which attempts to summarize what members of the Class of 2016 know—and what they don't—by referencing the cultural touchstones that have come and/or gone in their lifetime.

The list, released Tuesday, is a collection of references to pop culture (Justin Bieber and Dakota Fanning are their age), politics (a woman has run the U.S. State Department for much of their lives) and technology (their world has always existed in cyberspace).

To members of the Class of 2016, many of whom were born in 1994, "The Graduate" protagonist Benjamin Braddock could be their grandfather.

Other points on the list show not just the passage of time, but also the evolution of behavior. This year's college freshman would likely think it strange for White House security to greet a group of gay elected officials by wearing rubber gloves, as happened during President Bill Clinton's first term. (A Clinton spokesman later apologized.)

Beloit College English and humanities professor Tom McBride and former college Public Affairs Director Ron Nief have compiled the list annually since 1998. As for larger trends among this year's college freshmen, McBride said one is clear.

"They've come into their teenage years at a time when there are real doubts about America's future, about whether America will continue to be a No. 1 power, about crushing debt, about recovery from the economic recession," McBride said in an interview.

"This is a generation for whom D-E-B-T is going to be a four-letter word. They're aware it was excess debt that caused the recession. They've seen older siblings graduate college and come back home without any prospects for a job. They've heard the word 'underwater' and they know it isn't referring to a swimming pool."


In the minds of incoming college freshmen:

People don't carry luggage, they roll it. They don't have new encyclopedias. Kurt Cobain has always been dead. "The Real World" has always stopped getting polite and started getting real. Los Angeles has never had a pro football team. Robert De Niro isn't the young Vito Corleone in "The Godfather II" or Jimmy Conway in "Goodfellas"; he's Ben Stiller's father-in-law in "Meet the Parents." Bill Clinton is a senior statesman, not a recent former president. They had Furbys. "Star Wars" was always just a film, not a defense strategy. There have always been blue M&M's, but no tan ones.

 

[Ham Murabi]

No, really.

Funny, the black unemployment rate is almost double that of whites. Yet apparently they believe Obama will serve the black community better than Romney.
I can hardly imagine what four more years of Obama will do for Americans, black or white.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Funny, the black unemployment rate is almost double that of whites. Yet apparently they believe Obama will serve the black community better than Romney.
I can hardly imagine what four more years of Obama will do for Americans, black or white.

Because he will serve the black community better than Romney. Romney will increase unemployment amongst blacks and worse he'll do it more or less on purpose.

 

[bra_man69]

Because he will serve the black community better than Romney. Romney will increase unemployment amongst blacks and worse he'll do it more or less on purpose.

 

[Wrong Element]

"This is a generation for whom D-E-B-T is going to be a four-letter word. They're aware it was excess debt that caused the recession..."

They're going to need college in that case, to tell them that what they're "aware" of is not actually true.

In the minds of incoming college freshmen:

People don't carry luggage, they roll it. They don't have new encyclopedias. Kurt Cobain has always been dead. "The Real World" has always stopped getting polite and started getting real. Los Angeles has never had a pro football team. Robert De Niro isn't the young Vito Corleone in "The Godfather II" or Jimmy Conway in "Goodfellas"; he's Ben Stiller's father-in-law in "Meet the Parents." Bill Clinton is a senior statesman, not a recent former president. They had Furbys. "Star Wars" was always just a film, not a defense strategy. There have always been blue M&M's, but no tan ones.

They do these things every year, and every year I have the same objection to them, which is that it's stupid to think that college freshmen are totally unaware of anything that happened before they were born. If they had done one of these when I was a freshman and said "For the class of 1984, Ronald Reagan was always just a politician and never an actor," that would have been stupid, since I certainly knew Reagan had been an actor. Just like I'm pretty sure there are 18-year-olds today who have seen Goodfellas.

 

[mercury14]

Who was it that was suggesting that Obama was only going to get 80% of the black vote this election? Was that Vette?

 

[The_Trouvere]

Because he will serve the black community better than Romney. Romney will increase unemployment amongst blacks and worse he'll do it more or less on purpose.

Something may happen beyond politics to benefit whoever is elected in 2012. For Ronald Reagan this was the decline in the world price of petroleum. For Bill Clinton this was the growing use of PCs, the internet, and dot com companies.

Unless this happens Mitt Romney's economic policies will increase the national debt while doing nothing to reduce unemployment.

It may be that we are entering an era when neither party can reverse the economic national decline.

 

[ChinaBandit]

Gary Johnson 2012.

 

[Busybody]

Funny, the black unemployment rate is almost double that of whites. Yet apparently they believe Obama will serve the black community better than Romney.
I can hardly imagine what four more years of Obama will do for Americans, black or white.

of cours

they wanna be unemployed

why work

when you can get money for free?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

If youre able to step back and see the BIG picture whats obvious is how Obama and the Democrats are racing to the same place, the Niggerization of America. Obama prefers a ghetto surrounding an oppulent city hall, while Romney likes peasant huts around a Wal-Mart, its a distinction without a difference. City Hall buries dreams beneath red tape, Wally World buries dreams beneath the influence its money buys.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The poll was weighted towards Obama and not comprised of likely voters.

Now how many of us know that Ryan's Sister-in-law is black and that he dated a black woman?

No, all we know is that he pushed grandma off a cliff for a plan that includes the same "cuts" as Obama's plan...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Who was it that was suggesting that Obama was only going to get 80% of the black vote this election? Was that Vette?

One would assume that he is going to get upwards of 90% but also that he has dampened their enthusiasm and would thus hurt him in the arena of turnout...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Their is also the Wilder/Bradley effect.

Polls are horribly flawed creatures.

 

[kbate]

It is almost as if you can already feel the weight of the chains on the minds of the African American Community.

Obama owes about another 2 million votes to Biden's 'misstatement'.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It is almost as if you can already feel the weight of the chains on the minds of the African American Community.

Obama owes about another 2 million votes to Biden's 'misstatement'.

Hope and Chains 2012...

Anyone notice the price of gas and the climbing death rate in Afghanistan as Syria pulls the region closer to regional war as Russia fills the void of our weakness?



And here's the cherry on the pie to Jake Tapper's claim about the Press doing a very poor job...

You get this long piece of how Valarie Jarret is getting rich off of ripping off housing projects yet there is not one mention of the similar ventures of Tony Rezko and Barack Hussein Obama in African-American communities...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/tapper-media-failing-country_650404.html
http://freebeacon.com/jarrett-towers/

 

[mercury14]

The poll was weighted towards Obama...

40% of respondents call themselves conservative including 18% very conservative
23% of respondents call themselves liberal including 9% very liberal.

Clearly weighted toward Obama.

 

[CandiCame]

This reminds me- I gotta get my registration changed. I've moved since the last election.

 

[RobDownSouth]

40% of respondents call themselves conservative including 18% very conservative
23% of respondents call themselves liberal including 9% very liberal.

Clearly weighted toward Obama.

AJ routinely creates his own facts to support his own opinions.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yes, Voted
Voted for Barack Obama ............................. 45
Voted for John McCain ................................ 36


That's why you're going on ignore with Throb. Hyper-fucking partisanship...

 

[fuckwaffle]

40% of respondents call themselves conservative including 18% very conservative
23% of respondents call themselves liberal including 9% very liberal.

Clearly weighted toward Obama.

Take a hint from the character you use as an Avatar...people lie.

 

[mercury14]

Yes, Voted
Voted for Barack Obama ............................. 45
Voted for John McCain ................................ 36


That's why you're going on ignore with Throb. Hyper-fucking partisanship...

Oh no, AJ is putting people on iggy for being partisan! Unless they're conservative partisans he politically agrees with.