Obama's Poll Among Blacks: Asking The Black Voter The Wrong Question

As I listen to various popularity polls among voters I get frustrated by the ambiguity of the questions that are being asked. This is double the case for the questions typically ask of African-Americans.

Most of these polls are configured as what amounts to be "subjective popularity polls". As we clearly see in the Black community among locally elected politicians - our people's support for a given politicians and even the policies that one espouses have little to do with the effective outcomes that are present WITHIN the Black community.

These polls, instead measure the continued belief that by following the present ideological course (the methodology) as carried forth by the Democratic Party (the vehicle) then despite the present set of unfavorable outcomes if we "keep trying harder" in our support of this methodology and vehicle then a new day will one day dawn and all of our effort will be worth it.

For me I find this problematic as a course of action. On the one hand as each successive victory that occurs at the lower rungs of the mountain and thus the favorable political machine takes over an increasing number of institutional seats that provide civic services to our community - we are increasingly asked to "remain unified" and look upward to the next plateau that has yet to be scaled before we dis-unify and begin to fundamentally question and criticize the assumptions that are being made.

In summary - this is no way to manage a business or an entity. This is only a way to enforce unity for the benefit of some outside interest other than your own.

If you don't obtain "earnest money" along the way then indeed your trusting is likely to allow you to be taken along for a ride in the long one.

As I debate various Black Democrats I notice a new debate tactic. As I attempt to unify the machine that Obama currently presides over nationally with the local machines that represent the key places where the Black community is losing the game (our schools, our streets, our local work places) I notice an attempt to disconnect these local problems with the national political battle that is going on. I find this to be totally intellectually dishonest.

Beyond the fact that many of these same people (my personal friends) had touted the great benefit that a Democratic president would be for the education of our young people, more resources provided to the cities and health care reform their present attempts to disassemble the connection that they have made is astounding.

WHAT SHOULD THE BLACK VOTER BE ASKED IN A POLL?

I told you before that my goal is to: "Remove the Democratic Party from the Racial Nucleus of the Black Community, shunting it out to the periphery so it is made to compete for our loyalties based on its present deliveries, not about some carefully selected past" (The past from 1964 through to the immediate present. All of the Democrats that beat us before that are now Republicans - you know?)

I am not asking Black people to stop voting FOR the Democrats if this is who you feel is the better choice. I am only asking that my people restore our focus upon our Permanent Interests and ONLY cast your support for those who deliver upon them. The failure to deliver means a withdraw of support NOT "The Lesser Of Two Evils"!! This strategy has brought us to where we are today: Black people serving as the main antagonists where we are hurting the most: on our streets, in our schools and the "conditions of blood" that we suffer from.

• Safe Streets
• Quality Schools
• Thriving Local Economies
• Healthy Lifestyles

These Permanent Interests MUST come before support of "increased head count" of "Black faces in high places".

Thus the question that African-American voters must be asked has to be placed in reference to the change in course toward our Permanent Interests between when the person in question STARTED and the present point in time. Beyond that these Yes or No questions needs to be replaced with questions of SPECIFICITY. I realize that this reformat does not fit within the scope of an opinion poll thus I am asking that people disregard the veracity of opinion polls. For the Black voter it means NOTHING with respect to his absolute standing in his community. Some of these people will support Obama if in two years the Black unemployment rate hits 20%.

The new framed question will be:

1. What has Obama, as the titular head of the Democratic Party, which is synergized in its control of your interests both locally and nationally, done via policy and action to Keep Your Community Safe? Improve the Academic Operations Of Your Schools?...........
2. Based on the fact that the "popularly held adversary" - the Conservatives hold fewer elected seats over your interests than ever before in history - How do you continue to blame THEM for your condition instead of the people who actually reside in the seats of power over your interests? Are your protestations fortifying your ideological preferences or actually forwarding your permanent interests as measured on the ground?
3. We know that the common venacular is make the suggestion fo "What the GOP must do to win the Black vote" - these suggestions typically ask them to become more progressive. Are you able to articulate a clear threshold as to "What the Democratic Party has to do to LOSE the Black Vote"?
   

The fact that these type of more probing questions are never asks insures that the Black Community will remain a permanent constituency of the Progressive Party REGARDLESS of the conditions that we suffer from in our communities. In fact the continued suffering only fortifies the dependency upon the progressive party to fend for us.