Clintons Lose Luster with Black Voters
March 24, 2008 | 11:24 am | by t-blender |Rate It:
chicago tribune: An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll taken this month found that former President Bill Clinton, the so-called first black president, is falling out of favor with African-Americans.
More of the poll’s respondents view him negatively (45 percent) than positively (42 percent). Compare this to his ratings just last year—a positive of 48 percent compared with a negative of 35 percent—and it’s a pretty big deal.
Beyond scientific polls, anecdotal evidence reveals that his wife also is losing support from the Democratic Party’s most reliable constituency.
A lot of black people are furious at Sen. Hillary Clinton in part because of the actions or infractions of her surrogates. They’re angry at Bill for the dust-up he created after the South Carolina contest comparing Sen. Barack Obama’s win there to that of Rev. Jesse Jackson’s when he ran for president. They’re angry at Geraldine Ferraro for suggesting Obama is mostly an affirmative action candidate.
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