Do you think black female voters will be torn between voting for Obama and McCain?

Question

Black women have two sides which might have some influence on their votes, one has the first black Presidential candidate on the Democratic side, and the other has a chance to be the first female VP in history, and was also the first female Governor of Alaska. We just had the anniversary of women's suffrage, and a woman's right to vote, so I am wondering is the black female vote torn between the two, and does any black female voter uninfluenced by the historical aspect of this election?

Answer 1

I don't think so. They will vote for obama becaseu he represents everything thats just.

Answer 2

No. all they can see is the color of Obama's skin. Nothing else really matters. What else could explain Obama having a 94 point lead over McCain amongst likely black voters? It certainly isn't because they support his foreign policy.

Answer 3

I think that any voter struggling over whether to elect a "black" or a "female" to be CEO of this country IS NOT QUALIFIED TO VOTE.

OMG - is that how low the criteria has become?  Skin color or gender?  I think Martin Luther King Jr. would be horrified to see that skin color is a deciding factor rather than the Content of the person's Character.

Answer 4

They will vote with their minds.

Answer 5

The'08 election is indeed historical (often hysterical)---I hope black voters(and everyone else) will put race and gender aside and vote for a candidate they believe will make America a better place for us all.

McCain/Palin '08----change you may rely on.

Answer 6

People do not vote for others because they are the same race or s*x as they are. They vote for people based on the issues. So no, I don't think female black voters will be torn between the options at all.  

Answer 7

I am a bi-racial female voter who has voted a Democratic ticket all my life.  Straight ticket; no dickering.

I'm not at all torn between the two.  For the first time in my life, I will vote for a Republican....John McCain.  Obama may be the "first black presidential candidate" but he is not the RIGHT presidential candidate.  The Democrats became so enamored with the idea that they would show how progressive they are, that they turned their backs on everything I thought Democrats stood for, and they put forth an extreme left liberal, whom I believe to be a Socialist at heart, just because he was "black".  And if you believe there was any other motivation, you are sorely mistaken.

They have passed over many fine black men as candidates, only to settle on this insipid creature.

No, not torn at all.

Answer 8

In historical terms, the election of an African American president is more significant than the selection of a female running mate.  Palin is not the first female governor in the country and she is not the first female VP candidate.  If her gender was going to sway African American women then the question becomes why didn't African American women support Hillary in greater numbers?  It makes no sense for them to now cross party lines just because the number two candidate is a woman.

Answer 9

Don't you know that questions like this insult African Americans?

What makes you think that they don't look at the issues just like you and white women in this country?

What makes you think that they are choosing a president simply because he's black?

But to answer your question, no.

Answer 10

"most", no.  "some", yes.

Answer 11

Nope. Even though im not African american, I dought many of them will vote McCain.

Answer 12

I think race is stronger than gender...alot of chicks don't like Gov. Palin, they have the "your not my daddy" complex.  people should study a little before they vote, who knows, this is a crazy election!  

Answer 13

The same question was asked about the Democratic primary: Do black women vote their race or their gender?  Um, isn't that like asking me, as a white male, the same question?  Smart people vote for who they think the best candidate is.

Answer 14

I don't believe so. I think they will still vote Obama.

I'll give two points.

O.J. Simpson trial; Black people didn't see it as whether he was really guilty or not but more as of a black man triumphing over the white man's system. Kind of like getting something back from all the times blacks have been mistreated.

My best man at my wedding was black, during a discussion one time he mentioned that most blacks saw him as a sell out because he was successful businessman.

With most black leaders like, Jackson, Sharpton, and Wright they are successful and stay in power because they fool most of the black community into thinking they need them to stand for them. I hope this isn't what Obama is doing. But as the Who song goes; "look who's the new boss, same as the old boss".

Answer 15

No. Black trumps being female just like Latino trumps also being Black. They probably think he's handsome (despite the ears) and they will vote for Obama no matter what he says or does.

Answer 16

Blacks (all) will be voting for Obama, that's a given. All (mostly all) people tend to sway with/to their own kind. That's just they way of the world.

Answer 17

It depends upon their values

Liberal black woman will obviously go for Obama and the right leaning conservative black females will go for Sarah but i am sure there will be woman would only vote to see a woman in the white house

Answer 18

I think MAYBE they'll vote for which candidate they, you know, agree with politically.

Answer 19

I believe it will depend on what is more important to them on the issues. I know alot of friends on mine only want to vote on Obama because he is black, but still have issues with his stance on abortion and g*y marriage.  

Answer 20

No, I really don't think so. I think most are going to stick with Obama, because they think that is a bigger accomplishment than a woman being able to vote, because black people were slaves for years and years.... blah blah blah.

Answer 21

Not hardly.  You've actually put your fingure on the whole problemblacks and women have with the GOP's attitude.

Look at the TYPE o fwomen that black (and white ) women support-strong and intelligent women like Hillary, Pelosi--outside politics women like Ophrah, and so on.  

But this is the point the right--and McCain--obviously don't get:  the support is for the PERSON--not just for her gender.  Palin is the very antithesis of everything the whole women's movement stands for. She supports policies that subordinate women. That would strip women of their rights.  She may or may not be qualified to be governor of Alaska--but that doesn't make her qualfied to be President. NOTE: I said president because being ready to step in and serve as president IS the job of the VP. And she does not have the qualifications. Period As a substitute for substantive knowledge and experience,she offers the whining claim that she's a mother.  Well, so are the other women I mentioned--but they don't try to pass off the very admirable task of motherhood as a qualification for public office.

McCain and his male chauvinist ilk have the bigoted notion that all they have to do is trot out a "Vogue" image of Mommy and all the little pretties will flock to their side.  That insulting and derogatory attitude--which is glaringly obvious--just cost McCain a lot of votes among women--black andwite alike.

Answer 22

Nope, Palin is so out the the main stream she not going to be getting many voters in the Main stream.