Sadly, it’s true. Which is why Cain’s prediction that he could muster a whopping one-third of the black vote as the GOP nominee in next year’s election vs. Obama seems so wildly optimistic.
It really shouldn’t though.
After saying Monday that he believes blacks are “over this first African-American president thing,” Herman Cain said Wednesday that the black community was “brainwashed” into traditionally voting for Democratic lawmakers.
“African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open minded, not even considering a conservative point of view,” Cain said on an interview set to air Wednesday afternoon on CNN. “I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it’s just brainwashing and people not being open minded, pure and simple.”
On Monday, Cain blasted the president for his tone at a Congressional Black Caucus dinner, and predicted he would be able to garner at least one-third of black voters in a head-to-head general election.
“I believe, quite frankly, that my campaign, I will garner a minimum of a third of the black vote in this country and possibly more, especially after what the president did recently when he was addressing the Black Caucus. That didn’t go over well with a lot of people in this country,” Cain said.
Cain still believed that he would be able to attract black support by breaking through to black voters with his policy ideas.
“This whole notion that all African-Americans are not [sic] going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true,” Cain said. “I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I’m black but because of my policies.”
***UPDATE*** Here’s the CNN interview quoted in the Hill’s report.
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