{"id":16297,"date":"2012-10-26T11:23:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16297"},"modified":"2012-10-26T23:30:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T03:30:42","slug":"why-do-so-many-blacks-support-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16297\/why-do-so-many-blacks-support-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do So Many Blacks Support Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If somebody ran a poll question like that, the crazies would be out yelling about &#8220;racism&#8221; at the top of their lungs. Today, though, CNN ran a viewer poll asking: <em>Why do so many white voters oppose Obama?<\/em> Really? Really? Yes, really.<\/p>\n<p>So who is it, after all, who is playing the race card?<\/p>\n<p>Look, is it more remarkable that about 59 percent of white voters oppose an incumbent president during a time of a lousy economy and several deathly scandals abroad (Libya, Mexico), or that 97 percent of black voters support the incumbent during such a time?<\/p>\n<p>Why is the onus always on the white votes to explain why they &#8220;oppose&#8221; a president who happens to be black?<\/p>\n<p>This is sickening. CNN should be ashamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If somebody ran a poll question like that, the crazies would be out yelling about &#8220;racism&#8221; at the top of their lungs. Today, though, CNN ran a viewer poll asking: Why do so many white voters oppose Obama? Really? Really? Yes, really. So who is it, after all, who is playing the race card? Look, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16317,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16297\/revisions\/16317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}