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Poll Finds Obama’s Run Isn’t Closing Divide on Race
New York Times ^ | July 16, 2008 | ADAM NAGOURNEY and MEGAN THEE

Posted on 07/16/2008 9:49:46 AM PDT by Baladas

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To: Baladas

question: if Barack Obama does not win the election, will there be riots in the streets?


21 posted on 07/16/2008 10:29:16 AM PDT by mehill
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To: Baladas

Liberals just cannot move beyond their fixation with race. I am beginning to understand more acutely that they really do not see blacks as the equivalent of themselves. Of course whey would they? They are such elitists that they see no one as the equivalent of themselves. If they only knew!

Obama is despised by Conservatives because he is a dishonest, clueless, unethical, unamerican, Socialist-—and for no other reason.

show us Condy Rice, Clarence Thomas, Shelby Steele, Walter Williams, or Alan Keyes and watch how the color-blind Conservatives vote.

Liberals, you need to leave your Jim Crow thinking and enter the world-view of respect for others, beneficence, and accountability. In other words, if you want to make a difference by bettering the lives o f all Americans, become Conservatives.


22 posted on 07/16/2008 10:29:17 AM PDT by TFMcGuire (Either you are an American, or you are a liberal)
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To: mehill
I wouldn't be surprised. The left is so, so indoctrinated into thinking that everything in their lives revolves around what happens in DC, and they have been so spun into thinking Obama is some sort of Messiah and the ‘last hope’, I wouldn't put anything past them.

I love being Conservative. I can live my life in spite of what happens in DC.

23 posted on 07/16/2008 10:32:07 AM PDT by mnehring
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“question: if Barack Obama does not win the election, will there be riots in the streets?”

The analogy is during the Civil War, where at Gettyburg the Union troops, standing behind their defense works, mowed down the charging Confederates. Union troops chanted, “Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg”, where Conferderate troops mowed down Union troops, standing behind breastworks.”...

...Many white people will be at workplaces and out in public, lauging at Obama’s defeat, chanting, “OJ, OJ”.

I’m halfway kidding, but to answer your question, yes their will be blacks rioting and burning down the streets.


24 posted on 07/16/2008 10:38:31 AM PDT by rbmillerjr ("bigger government means constricting freedom"....................RWR)
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To: Baladas

Its not possible that Hillary is still trying to undermine Obama and step in to a chaotic convention to save the day. Nope, the beast is finally dead.


25 posted on 07/16/2008 10:49:49 AM PDT by Rippin
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"The Democrats position seems to be that if you won’t vote for Obama because he’s black, you’re a racist. "

Are you sure you didn't mean, "The Democrats position seems to be that if you don't vote for Obama, you're a racist."?
26 posted on 07/16/2008 10:59:43 AM PDT by FrankR (Liberalism is Communism by the drink - P.J. O'Roarke)
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Not to mention 20% of black voters do not have a favorable opinion of him. That's brutal.

I would say a large majority of blacks like Obama and a giant majority of the media, but I would bet there is a divide amongst blacks. I would bet a fairly sizable amount of black Americans, especially older ones don't like the fact he is a closet Muslim.

27 posted on 07/16/2008 11:02:57 AM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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“Are you sure you didn’t mean, “The Democrats position seems to be that if you don’t vote for Obama, you’re a racist.”?

Aside from Obama’s liberal bona fides, I think the Democrats are willing to overlook all of his deficiencies because of his ethnicity. If not, why choose him over Hillary?


28 posted on 07/16/2008 11:14:43 AM PDT by Spok
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To: Baladas

To those with principles voting for someone because of race is equally racist to voting against someone because of race.


29 posted on 07/16/2008 11:19:00 AM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Baladas
Hey New York Slimes...I've got some news for ya:

Obama is too liberal! This has nothing to do with race...except for the idiots who are voting FOR him because of his race!

30 posted on 07/16/2008 11:20:25 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (Just say NObama!)
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Americans are sharply divided by race ....with blacks and whites holding vastly different views of Senator Barack Obama,

This is BS. How do they think he was nominated, by the black vote alone? What a bunch of lying POS.

31 posted on 07/16/2008 1:35:25 PM PDT by calex59
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Its not possible that Hillary is still trying to undermine Obama and step in to a chaotic convention to save the day. Nope, the beast is finally dead.

You act as if that is a good thing. Do you really think Obama would make a better president than Hillary? I hate Hillary and Bill but would prefer either one of them in the WH to the marxist bastard that Obama is. He is a liar, a deceitful communist SOB who is being manipulated by someone and will do his best to turn this country completely communist as soon as he can.

32 posted on 07/16/2008 1:39:02 PM PDT by calex59
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They're just getting the story line established: “Vote for Obama, or you're a racist”, and “If Obama loses, the country is racist”.
33 posted on 07/16/2008 9:51:49 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: Baladas
Mr. Obama’s candidacy, while generating high levels of enthusiasm among black voters, is not seen by them as evidence of significant improvement in race relations.

Improvement may, I say may, be finally admitted when every last dollar has been removed from your wallet.

34 posted on 07/16/2008 10:37:43 PM PDT by Stentor
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*Fist Bump*
basketball

Two things, in retrospect he should not have done or mentioned. Who was he trying to impress? People whose vote he was concerned about? Yeah it’s subtle, but he blew it with the wrong sort of symbolism. What’s next, throwing a gang sign?


35 posted on 07/17/2008 12:41:41 PM PDT by kinghorse
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"Poll Finds Obama’s Run Isn’t Closing Divide on Race"

Isn't closing the divide? They've got to be kidding, he and his camp followers in the MSM are doing everything possible everyday to create a real divide, instead of an imaginary one.

36 posted on 07/17/2008 3:03:58 PM PDT by Darlin' (oh.... phooey.... lost my tagline.... again)
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To: Baladas

Not even worth reading the article: I’ll just respond to the silly headline:

Why on earth would SnObama’s run have any effect of closing “the racial divide”?


37 posted on 07/18/2008 1:57:52 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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