HOW DID BARACK OBAMA WIN THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES IN 2008?

 Public opinions are heavily divided on this issue that I have raised above. Did Wifrey Oprah and Collin Powell helped him to win the presidency as believed by many people today? Did he win because Americans wanted a black president or a generational shift in leadership? Did he win because of George Bush Jr failed presidency?

 

 From the accurate and precise analysis of how Americans voted in 2008 presidential elections, the truth about his victory can be openly seen. Before Obama ran for the presidency in 2008, American presidential voters always voted along the traditional blue and red states voting patterns.

 

In the American presidential politics, the following are the major voting blocks:Blue-Collar and Rural Whites, Urban and Professional Whites, White Seniors, Women, African-Americans, Hispanics, Young Voters, American Jews and the New Immigrants. Obama won 98% of the African-American votes, 67% of Hispanics votes, 10 million votes amongst the Urban and Professional Whites, 67% of Young Voters, 58% of Women and 78% of Jewish Americans.

 

The truth is that the voting pattern changes in the American presidential politics in every presidential election circle. What will happen in the 2012 presidential election? How will American voters vote in 2012? Time will surely tell.

 

‎"The number of blacks in Congress has increased from five in 1964 to 10 in 1970, 16 in 1980 and 43 today out of 435 in the House of Representatives, or 535 including the 100 in the Senate. The people who emerged in the 1970s and 1980s were elected by constituencies that were almost entirely black. But there has been a change in white electoral behaviour that began in the late 1990s. Prior to that time about two-thirds of whites said they would never vote for a black presidential candidate or for a black governor of their state.

 

However, many of the old farts  there is no other name for them  began to die off. Younger whites have been socialised not under racial segregation but in a racially integrated social and cultural environment where hip-hop is the music of urban America for whites, blacks, Latinos and Asians" - Manning Marable is professor and founding director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University.