Will African-Americans vote for Obama in 2012

The biggest problem the president is facing is not whether people will switch sides. It’s whether people will turnout for him again.

In Detroit, a heavily Democratic city notorious for low voter turnout, 53 percent of registered voters came out in 2008. It was the city’s largest voter turnout since 65 percent voted in the 1980 election between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. With that groundswell of support, people were looking for nearly immediate “change” from Obama.

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