Reply #16: The New Orleans mayoral race was mostly on racial lines [View All]

[Hippo_Tron]

And it was sad but not surprising. I voted for Landrieu over Nagin because I felt that Nagin was completely incompetent. I'm supporting Obama this time around and I suppose he's getting the black vote just as Nagin did.

I don't really know what to make of the racial divide and frankly I think that anybody who says that they do is full of shit. Obama is certainly not winning states like Nebraska and North Dakota because of black votes. But in states where there's a large black population it seems that the race goes along racial lines and Obama can never get more than 35% of the white vote.

If you want my guess, I think it's because Hillary had such an advantage going into this that if not for the racial factor she'd be getting the black vote in those numbers as well. But that's just a guess.