"On the very day of a special election to fill a vacated congressional seat this week in Mississippi, The New York Times accused the Republican candidate of running racist ads against his Democratic opponent..." - Ann CoulterThat would be, from www.nytimes.com:
Republicans Use Obama as Weapon in House Contest in MississippiSOUTHAVEN, Miss. — Hoping to hang on to a Congressional seat in a tight special election here on Tuesday, Republicans in this mostly white and very conservative district are trying to make the vote more a referendum on Senator Barack Obama than on the candidates themselves.
In advertisements and speeches, Republicans have repeatedly associated Travis Childers, the white Democrat threatening to take the seat away from the Republican Party, with Mr. Obama. Republicans say Mr. Obama’s liberal values are out of place in the district. But for many Democratic veterans here, the tactic is a throwback to the old and unwelcome politics of race, a standby in Mississippi campaigning.
Former Gov. William Winter, a Democrat, expressed shock at the current campaign.
"I am appalled that this blatant appeal to racial prejudice is still being employed," said Mr. Winter, who lost the 1967 governor’s race after his segregationist opponent circulated handbills showing blacks listening to one of his speeches. Mr. Winter went on to win the governor’s office 12 years later.
"I had thought we had gotten past that," Mr. Winter said. "That was a tactic that was used against me in the 1960s..."
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...The Republican candidate, Greg Davis, said in an interview he was not raising racial issues, but was instead pointing out that his conservative values made him a better fit for the district.
"We’ve run ads against him with John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi," said Mr. Davis, referring to Mr. Childers. "Just because one of them happens to be African-American has no bearing on it.” Mr. Davis, 42, is a former state representative who is now mayor of Southaven, a fast-growing Memphis suburb...
Republicans have repeatedly associated Travis Childers...with Mr. Obama.Merely associating him with Obama is racist?-- snip --
"I am appalled that this blatant appeal to racial prejudice is still being employed," said Mr. Winter...
Mr. Winter, met Mr. Freud, from wikipedia.org:
According to Sigmund Freud, projection is a psychological defense mechanism whereby one "projects" one's own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires, and feelings onto someone else.
I wonder many of those MISSISSIPPI voters actually read that NEW YORK Times article.