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Little “Obama Effect” on Views About Race Relations
Gallup ^ | 10/29/2009 | Frank Newport

Posted on 10/29/2009 7:05:02 PM PDT by markomalley

A majority of Americans, 56%, believe that a solution to America's race-relations problem will eventually be worked out -- a figure that is roughly the same as those Gallup found in the years prior to last fall's historic election of Barack Obama as president.

Responses to this long-standing trend today are almost exactly where they were in December 1963, when Gallup first asked this question. Fifty-five percent of Americans in 1963 were hopeful that a solution to the race-relations problem would eventually be worked out. Now, some 46 years later, the "hopeful" percentage is an almost identical 56%. In short, despite all that has happened in the intervening decades, there is scarcely more hope now than there was those many years ago that the nation's race-relations situation will be solved.

(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; racism

Note that pessimism steadily rose basically until the Bush administration

Of course, that won't ever be reported.

1 posted on 10/29/2009 7:05:05 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Zero will go down in history as the one person to have done the most to DESTROY racial harmony in this country.


2 posted on 10/29/2009 7:15:43 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt (Obama's Deathcare ---- many will suffer and/or die unnecessarily.)
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To: markomalley

Intermarriage may be the only solution.


3 posted on 10/29/2009 7:19:21 PM PDT by Prince Caspian
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To: markomalley

Obama’s election has certainly had an effect on my view of being called racist. I no longer view that label as remotely a condemnation of true racist views. It’s merely a word, a tool of the left with no meaning except as a means to silence someone.


4 posted on 10/29/2009 7:19:28 PM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: markomalley

Racism in the USA will go away when the government at the local, state and federal levels gets out of the race baiting business. They won’t! Too much money in the race business.

Everyone can do a small part by answering the race question on the coming census forms with: HUMAN. Thats what I did in 1990 and 2000. If the 2010 census form is too full of crap, I will throw the form in the round file


5 posted on 10/29/2009 7:20:11 PM PDT by texican01
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To: markomalley

Racism in the USA will go away when the government at the local, state and federal levels gets out of the race baiting business. They won’t! Too much money in the race business.

Everyone can do a small part by answering the race question on the coming census forms with: HUMAN. Thats what I did in 1990 and 2000. If the 2010 census form is too full of crap, I will throw the form in the round file


6 posted on 10/29/2009 7:20:22 PM PDT by texican01
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To: markomalley

It is amazing how clearly the OJ Simpson trial shows in those graphs.


7 posted on 10/29/2009 7:24:13 PM PDT by Between the Lines (For their sins of 50 million abortions God gave them over to be an ObamaNation {Romans 1:24-32})
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To: texican01

I answered American.


8 posted on 10/29/2009 7:26:40 PM PDT by Snoopers-868th
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

9 posted on 10/29/2009 7:28:48 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: Prince Caspian
Intermarriage may be the only solution.

Solution to what?

Look at the porno stats. They do no indictate Michelle's Obama trend setting is having any effect.

These stats are why Michelle is so ticked offed and why her consort is what he is.

10 posted on 10/29/2009 7:31:56 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Prince Caspian
Intermarriage may be the only solution.

Solution to what?

Look at the porno stats. They do no indictate Michelle's Obama trend setting is having any effect.

These stats are why Michelle is so ticked offed and why her consort is what he is.

11 posted on 10/29/2009 7:32:12 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: TornadoAlley3

I actually see nothing wrong with that picture.

At least Zero has on a coat and tie.

I know, I know - it’s using children for a photo op.

Well, the Scouts look great!


12 posted on 10/29/2009 7:34:52 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt (Obama's Deathcare ---- many will suffer and/or die unnecessarily.)
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To: saganite
Obama’s election has certainly had an effect on my view of being called racist. I no longer view that label as remotely a condemnation of true racist views. It’s merely a word, a tool of the left with no meaning except as a means to silence someone.

Bingo.

13 posted on 10/29/2009 7:49:36 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Where's my free house, car, etc?)
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To: markomalley

Liberal fascists have politicized race relations to such an extent that I normally avoid discussing them at all. It’s a game you can’t win. The questions behind these statistics are meaningless. This kind of question would be more valid:
1. In the past month, outside of work, have you had a conversation lasting at least ten minutes with a person of a different ethnic group?
2. If you were pulled over in traffic , would you prefer that the police officer be the same ethnic group as you, or different from you?
3. If you were the only family of your ethnic group in your neighborhood, would you contemplate moving?


14 posted on 10/29/2009 7:53:24 PM PDT by gorilla_warrior (Metrosexual hairless RINOs for hopey-changey bipartisan-ness)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

It’ll be worked out in November 2010, and again in November 2012.


15 posted on 10/29/2009 8:03:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Prince Caspian
"Intermarriage may be the only solution. "

That's what gave us obama...and he hates white people, and has an enormous chip on his shoulder about being black...

If you walk down the middle of the road, you will get hit from both directions...
16 posted on 10/29/2009 8:15:07 PM PDT by FrankR (To Congress: You cram it down our throats in '09, We'll shove it up your ass in '10!)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt; TornadoAlley3

FWI - Notice the pushed-PR-stunt diversity of the picture?

Asian girl - check
Black girl - check
Hispanic girl - check
White handicap girl - check (notice they aren’t ever from another race)
Republican prop Senator - check
Democrat prop Congressperson - check

I’m in brand marketing. This is what we call a “prop shot.”


17 posted on 10/29/2009 10:28:39 PM PDT by AmericanGirlRising (Dear God, please heal our land. II Chronicles 7:14)
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To: markomalley

The Obama Effect??

Jeremiah Wright, Black Panthers, everyone a racist.... geez, they still want to call him a racial healer and unifyer??

Wow they are dense.


18 posted on 10/29/2009 11:05:53 PM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

The 2 things about race relations in L.A.:

L.A. is a segregated city and that rich, white liberals are the most racist of them all.


19 posted on 10/30/2009 1:36:00 AM PDT by max americana (i)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Obama: "Now, you're the Crip. So, is the other white girl behind me a Hymie or a 'Tard?"
20 posted on 11/01/2009 8:06:22 PM PST by Stultis (Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
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