Posted on 09/20/2008 12:09:06 PM PDT by GVnana
Sep 20 01:11 PM US/Eastern
By RON FOURNIER and TREVOR TOMPSON
Associated Press Writers
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, conducted with Stanford University, 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 2.5 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.
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Funny thing about this “poll.”
It’s Democrats being labeled racist, not Republicans.
I see it as gult tripping Whites into voting for a very flawed candidate.
Think they’ll realize they should have stuck with Hillary?
Funny how such articles only cast whitey as being racist. Other ethnic groups, such as those of Hispanic, Indian, or east Asian descent, could never possibly be racist, right?
I can think of many black men and women that would be very good Presidents. Off the top of my head,how about Joe Watkins or Michael Steele.
While the Democrat party platform is what it is, it would not matter who ran .
So, who is responsible for their troubles?
I saw that too. I guess I must be a racist. Who would be responsible if not them? Maybe their government enablers?
If you think agreeing with that statement indicates "latent prejudice," you just might be a far-left academic moonbat.
On one hand they are hoping to play on White liberal guilt in a close race.
They are also doing what obama did in San Francisco when he spoke about bitter people clinging to their guns and religion, trying to explain to his sophisticated fellow travelers the coming loss, blaming it on small minded White bigots.
F$$$ Guilt....
I do too.
They are playing to the ones who will let a guilty conscience concerning slavery influence their vote. And, there are some like that.
“Oh dear, poor Barry! I favor McCain but I'll vote for that poor young man who overcame so many hardships to counter the redneck vote.”
“Could Blacks views of Whites” cost McCain support? (alternative header)
This is really simple and you should not over think the issue.
If you are not black and vote against Obama you are a racist.
Accept it and move on.
It will save a lot of typing and free you up to read other material or get on with the household chores!
By the way, I have found nothing in the election laws that say I must vote for Obama because he is black.
(Well actually half white and maybe arab and muslim )
So, have a nice day now that you have come to grips with your inherent racism and move on to something productive.
We put a woman on the ticket and she is not a woman according to the Democrats. If the candidate were a Clarence Thomas or Michael Steele, then he wouldn’t be a real black... So, no black man, or woman nor white womman will be accepted as such if they’re not a liberal. No judge, secretary of state...you name it.
If Odumbo’s people think Anglos are going to have black man remorse, wait until Hispanics get into the privacy of the voting booth. The PCgasm the radical left has worked up a lather for is going to be a fizzle, the big, political, anti climax of the century.
Dem’s can say whatever they want, but when your party puts forward a clearly ignorant and unqualified black candidate.
That gets me thinking, why would they put forward a clearly ignorant and unqualified black candidate?
I smell conspiracy theory.
You forgot black separatist, and he has bad taste in women.
Yeah, well actually the facts show that it isn't a matter of "trying harder" but rather a matter of doing the right thing. Blacks in stable marriages, with at least highschool educations, without children out of wedlock, do just as well economically as Whites with comparable educations.
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