50% of the population is below average.
Just remember very few of them vote. It's the reason the GOP took over the House this past election. These idiot's get a lot of liberal press, but most of them are lazy and won't vote. You have to find a way around that, and only in places like Chicago are they capable of doing it. They bus, chauffeur, feed, coffee, and hot chocolate these people direct to the polls on election day. They pretty much give curb service to anyone in the black community who has 2 arms and 2 legs. It is the main reason the "Daly Democratic Machine" has survived so well in Chicago for the better part of half a century. That, and a very high minority population that feeds like Cancer on social programs they would starve without, and the dems provide them with.
That is simply too much to accomplish on a nationwide basis every election. They need some sort of "bait". In 2008 they had it with Hussein. But even he needed the white vote. He got it with his bull$h!t and "charisma". Plus a lot of stupid whites that voted for him just to be politically correct around the water cooler. That's gone and the same stupid whites that bought into his crap the first time around, are too embarrassed to do it again. They've been had and they know it. Sure every black will vote for him but that's only 11% to 13% of the total population. Actually only about 5%. The rest are far too lazy, too young, or else are too busy selling crack, or else are in jail and have no civil rights.
No matter how you cut the cake he's going to have a rough go of it next time around. All the Republicans have to do is keep their nose clean for the next couple of years, and run someone who's not a 197 year old flip flopper. Bill T.