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Re: Was George W Bush a good president?
I would say it is questionable considering President Obama won by roughly 5 million votes. Blacks went for Obama by a 93-6% margin and they made up 13% of the total vote. There was approximately 127 million votes cast and 13% of those are would be 16.5 million. Now subtracting 93% of the black vote from President Obama's total, which is 15.4 million leaves the president with 50.6 million votes. Doing the same for Romney, 6% of the black vote which is 1 million votes and his total is 59.9 million votes. So without the black vote, President Obama would have got whopped. Fortunately, that didn't happen.
If Romney could have just gotten 4 million blacks to vote for him, a percentage of roughly 25% instead of 6% he would have won. This is a big Republican shortcoming when it comes to elections. Eisenhower did that twice 25% in 1952 and 40% in 1956, Even Richard Nixon garnered 32% of the black vote in 1960. But since then the best the Republicans could do is 15% of the black vote 1968 for Nixon again and 1976 for Gerald Ford.
Actually, yes, the Democratic party can cast away the black vote and be viable. If you'll notice, Hispanics strongly went Democratic this past election - and there's a lot more of them than blacks. Not only that, but women did, too - and there's a heck of a lot more of them than blacks and Hispanics put together. Pretty much the only ethnic constituency that the GOP won was mature white men.
I would say it is questionable considering President Obama won by roughly 5 million votes. Blacks went for Obama by a 93-6% margin and they made up 13% of the total vote. There was approximately 127 million votes cast and 13% of those are would be 16.5 million. Now subtracting 93% of the black vote from President Obama's total, which is 15.4 million leaves the president with 50.6 million votes. Doing the same for Romney, 6% of the black vote which is 1 million votes and his total is 59.9 million votes. So without the black vote, President Obama would have got whopped. Fortunately, that didn't happen.
If Romney could have just gotten 4 million blacks to vote for him, a percentage of roughly 25% instead of 6% he would have won. This is a big Republican shortcoming when it comes to elections. Eisenhower did that twice 25% in 1952 and 40% in 1956, Even Richard Nixon garnered 32% of the black vote in 1960. But since then the best the Republicans could do is 15% of the black vote 1968 for Nixon again and 1976 for Gerald Ford.