Posted on 09/20/2008 3:48:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON (AP) — Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them "lazy," "violent" or responsible for their own troubles.
The poll suggests that the percentage of voters who may turn away from Obama because of his race could easily be larger than the final difference between the candidates in 2004 — about two and one-half percentage points.
Certainly, Republican John McCain has his own obstacles: He's an ally of an unpopular president and would be the nation's oldest first-term president. But Obama faces this: 40 percent of all white Americans hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, and that includes many Democrats and independents.
More than a third of all white Democrats and independents — voters Obama can't win the White House without — agreed with at least one negative adjective about blacks, according to the survey, and they are significantly less likely to vote for Obama than those who don't have such views.
Such numbers are a harsh dose of reality in a campaign for the history books. Obama, the first black candidate with a serious shot at the presidency, accepted the Democratic nomination on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, a seminal moment for a nation that enshrined slavery in its Constitution.
"There are a lot fewer bigots than there were 50 years ago, but that doesn't mean there's only a few bigots," said Paul Sniderman, a political scientist at Stanford University, which partnered with The Associated Press and Yahoo News to conduct the exhaustive poll and analysis.
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Bigot? Bigot?
Hey, I’m just a typical white person.
I see they’re getting the “narratives” lined up just in case the Lamb of Chicago loses.
It looks like they’re laying the groundwork for him when he loses. They’ll attribute his loss to our intolerance; we’ll attribute it to his incompetence.
With an Obama loss in site, they are preempting it with a racist reason.
“There are alot of hidden bigots”. Um yes, that is the only reason folks might not vote for Barack.
They are really winning over indenpendants who might not like being called racist because they aren’t insane over Obama.
What! No BARF alert?
1/3? LOL!
Democrats’s true ‘colors’ pun intended, are showing.
SOMEBODY, anybody, tell me how slavery is “enshrined” in our Constitution?!! That is big news to me!
Let's see now..... Obama votes "present" 132 times in the Illinois Senate, then tells followers of his bid for the presidency to "get in people's faces".
Sure sounds lazy and violent to me.
Now its the racists, when are they going to give up on this?
I look forward to articles about the racism among blacks who support Obama at something like 90%-plus.
Huh?
If the liberal media really wants diversity, I think they had better get a grip on reality about who is holding it up. Otherwise it just looks like some old school.."let's bury all the white folks" prejudice.
This survey just proves, if you verbally beat folks over the head long enough, you WILL get the results you seek.
BOOKMARK!
barrack will lose because of democrats of racissm (anti-white), sexism, and bigotry (intolerance of anyone who don’t subscribe to left wing dogma)
Ally of the President? On what planet?
Obama and his followers issued a jihad against Republicans....mixed in race and due to their hatred of America we will see race relations fall apart...soon.
“It looks like they’re laying the groundwork for him when he loses.”
Let’s see...”get in their faces”, whites are racist...I am expecting the rallying cry around Halloween to be “if you dont vote for Zero, ther WILL be race riots”.
It won’t work.
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