home any way because the excitement of 2008 would have been very, very hard to maintain in 2012. that having been said i think that african-americans overwhelmingly those who vote will be voting for president obama because we understand that he is the ceo of the government, a government that has a constitution, that he s sworn to uphold, a government that has a constitution that protects all americans, red, yellow, black, brown and white, straight and gay, and this government separates church and state and it enables us to have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and live by our faith in our faith but under the law which covers everybody. bill: i think the white house would make a similar argument. i think the question comes back to whether or not he loses any support, especially in some of these key battleground areas. you go back to 2000 this is what we found between gore and bush. 90% of african-americans went with al gore. 200488% went with john kerry over george bush. 200