African american Quote by Mara Liasson

Despite allegations by liberal advocacy groups that voter suppression tactics by the right hindered minority voting, blacks represented 13 percent of the electorate in…

— Elizabeth Flock

“In the month of his inauguration, 63 percent of African Americans held a favorable view of race relations in America. By July 2013, that…

— Jack Cashill

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama…

— Nat Hentoff

Obama is not an African American president, but a president of all Americans. It doesn't matter if you are black, white, Hispanic, he's the…

— John Lewis

I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Barack Obama did get a higher percentage of the vote than anybody has in this country in 20 years. I mean, it was a…

— Mark Shields

Most African-Americans really do believe that we are voting for our better interest in voting for Democrats.

— Maxine Waters

There were people who voted for Obama simply because he was the first African-American. We had a lot of people that would not have…

— Rush Limbaugh

I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a…

— Aunjanue Ellis

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of…

— John Lewis

This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for…

— Herman Cain

The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two percent. That…

— Bill Maher