An African-American friend told me that "Obama is not the African-American President. He's a black man who happens to be the President." Will that not-too-uncommon view, along with a still-struggling economy, keep African-American voters home in key states, and doom the Democrats along the way in the 2010 mid-term elections, or will the GOP's daily doses of racist and xenophobic commentary, advertising, and propaganda pushes on Fox and Right Radio cause a backlash that will change the pollsters' prognostications?
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In March, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that 74-80% of African-Americans polled by the nonpartisan Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies said that they would turn out to vote in November.
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