America is such a racist society.
Posted on 10/09/2008 6:58:08 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
PRINCETON, NJ -- While 6% of voters say they are less likely to vote for Barack Obama because of his race, 9% say they are more likely to vote for him, making the impact of his race a neutral to slightly positive factor when all voters' self-reported attitudes are taken into account.
At the same time, 6% of voters say John McCain's race will make them less likely to vote for him, with 7% saying it makes them more likely to vote for him, leading to the same basic conclusion: McCain's race, like Obama's, is on balance neither a plus nor a minus.
These conclusions are based on eight dimensions potentially affecting the vote for both candidates. The dimensions were included in Gallup's Oct. 3-5 poll, and analyzed overall by Gallup's Jeff Jones.
(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...
America is such a racist society.
What’s to say that the Bradley Effect didn’t affect this poll?
Gallup?! Bwaa haaa haaa haaa haaaaaaa!
That’s funny!
Yeah. Whatever. The fact is that the gains he makes by being black or in states where he’s already solid. It’s the battleground states where his race is going to hurt him...Ohio, PA, MI, WI, FL, CO, NM. He made gains in NC/VA, but plenty more losses elsewhere.
spin, spin, spin
The liberty of millions yet unborn hangs in the balance in this election, and between now and Election Day, someone needs to expose those who control Obama's agenda.
"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." - Benjamin Disraeli
No kidding. If the idea that the Bradley effect is real (and in some parties it is more real than others — I’m looking at you Dems) then you cannot BY DEFINITION poll to determine it.
My God are these people dense?
Maybe we can find out somewhat from the polls in the primaries. Anyone have that data?
Of course to correlate the difference between a Bradley / Obama discomfort effect vs. general polling accuracy we’d have to compare them to how close the polls were to reality on the Republican side of the race as well. There are just too many variables to still isolate the Bradley effect accurately but it’d be a good start.
The issue is NOT black vs. white. It is red vs. right.
What is Gallup HIDING??
What is Gallup HIDING??
6% say they won’t vote for Obama because of his race.
6% say they won’t vote for McCain because of his race.
What is the problem America has with both of these mens’ white heritage???
The big problem isn’t the Bradley effect. It is the Zogby effect of oversampling Democrat voters. When the sample of voters is not a scientific reflection on society, the votes CANNOT materialize (except from behavior influenced by the repeated lie of “what” the figures are).
Whoops!
“6% say they won’t vote for Obama because of his race.
6% say they won’t vote for McCain because of his race.”
Keep in mind, this is 6% of VOTERS. One presumes that a voter who doesn’t vote for Obama because of his race is not black. Therefore, since there are far more non-blacks than blacks in this country, what does that tell us about the percentage of these groups that seemingly make this racist judgement call?? It tells us that a FAR higher percentage of blacks are racist than non-blacks.
This story is inaccurate.
For one, all black people are more likely to vote for Obama and that is 12.3% of the population
If Gallup can’t even get that right, their methodology is wrong.
The important thing, the thing we should not lose sight of, is that Obama lose. He is where he is because of ignorance, and if ignorance turns out to be the cause of his losing, so be it. Obama needs to lose.
But are blacks 12.3% of Registered Voters?
The effect of Obama, MSM and the dems deliberately playing the race card is not shown.
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