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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

California: 25% of African Americans now independent

GOP Could Learn from Arnold Effect on Black Voters -- for '08
New America Media, News Analysis, Earl Ofari Hutchinson:
...The ranks of the independent voters have swelled in recent years and many of them aren’t tightly corralled in any ideological camp. Their votes can spell victory or defeat in the key battleground states. Schwarzenegger could mobilize many of these voters for the GOP, and many of them are black.

In 2000 nearly three-fourths of African Americans identified themselves as Democrats. By 2002 that number had dropped to slightly more than 60 percent, according to a recent survey by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a research group devoted to African American issues. But an increasing number, especially those 18 to 35, identify themselves as independents. One-fourth of black adults now characterize themselves that way....

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