Inetresting, but I'm not sure if I would call it racial divide as the article suggest for the following reasons:
1) In previous elections, republican candidates always did better than democratic candidates. They usually pull 2:1 ratio (including the last election where the democratic candidate was the war hero). In this instance, you have a war hero running on the republican side; the ratio should be higher favoring Rep.
2) The poll itself is not scientific since it said that it did not have a representative sample. The data was collected from the subscribers who elected to respond.
3) If we were speak of racial bias, I am not sure where to make the stronger statement?
On the african American side: They voted democratic in that range or higher for quite some time (Gore and Clinton, each got more than 80%). Obama getting 80% from the A.A. military member is lower than I expected, especially since in the same poll, African american stated that the economy was their # 1 issue.
On the White members side: The argument of racial divide (if there is such thing), could be made stronger since Obama is doing much worse than in the general public.
That said, I go back to what I said earlier, there is no racial divide, and those who claim it are looking for headlines.
Mu humble $0.02
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