Posted on 09/20/2008 2:01:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
An AP-Yahoo News poll has 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 two and one-half 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.
Such numbers are a harsh dose of reality in a campaign for the history books. Obama, the first black candidate with a serious shot at the presidency, accepted the Democratic nomination on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, a seminal moment for a nation that enshrined slavery in its Constitution.
"There are a lot fewer bigots than there were 50 years ago, but that doesn't mean there's only a few bigots," said Stanford political scientist Paul Sniderman who helped analyze the exhaustive survey.
The pollsters set out to determine why Obama is locked in a close race with McCain even as the political landscape seems to favor Democrats.
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Oh yeah: “If you’re white, and you don’t vote for Obama, you’re a racist!”
"Senator, in light of your recent struggles to top 50% in the polls, and reports from many sources that blue-collar white voters are hesitant to commit to your candidacy, would you consider sending Sen. Robert Byrd, who was a member of the KKK, to campaign for you among these constituencies?"
Be sure to get the video capture of the look on Obama's face and put it on YouTube. Maybe he'll get all flustered and talk about "...my Muslim faith".
Cheers!
[The Asspress is laying a stereotypical guilt trip on white people. This is a straw man piece of propaganda.]
I am willing to bet that states such as Iowa (especially Iow) will, on election day, go for McCain.
The democrats never admit that they just lost, there always has to be some kind of trick or an excuse.
They are just preparing for that, in addition to laying a guilt trip on some folks who may be wavering on the idea of voting for Obama.
“...responsible for their own troubles...”
Well, duh! Aren’t most people responsible for screwing up their own lives? Why should it be any different for someone just because there is more melanin in their skin.
Did they ask any questions about his Liberal ideology or his shady past, or did they just focus on the race angle? I suspect the latter.
The polling nerds are starting to get it. Only they should have put a 1 in front of that 2 1/2% figure that they used. That would be more like it.
A couple of months ago my dear misguided mother asked me if I were going to 'go back to being a Democrat' and vote for Obama. I had to restrain myself from using expletives in my response; in any case, I'm still towing the line for the GOP, largely in part because of Sarah Palin.
YEah but thay are all libs and would have pulled the “d” lever anyway.
I would really like to know how the “wiggled” this information out of people. It seems to me very few people would admit this—especially Democrats who typically insist that only white people can do any wrong.
White guilt for what? I never owned a slave. My family never owned a slave. Obama’s family was never slaves, unless some Africans sold some of his African cousins into slavery. How would slavery from the past possibly affect how white people vote today?
Ya think. I know a local Village Mayor, a lifelong Democrat here in the Northeast. Never voted anything other than the Democrat line his whole life. He voted for Gore and he voted for Kerry and he tells me he will never vote for Obama.
My great grand daddy paid the price for my white guilt when he took a rebel mini-ball at Petersburg, Virginia. He took the Union Blue to free the slaves as a radical abolitionist. He put his money where his mouth was and almost lost his life to free the black race from bondage. I have no guilt. It was paid for my my family. This election isn’t about race. Put up a good black candidate and not a street hustler and I might vote for him.
The Democrats and their media allies are turning to a new, desperate, and very dangerous tactic. Rush talked about it on Friday, but he missed the mark. Rush said that Democrats are preparing the argument that racism was to blame when 0bama loses. It is, in my view, a far more dangerous strategy than that.
What Democrats are actually doing is setting the table for holding America hostage on election day. 0bama and his surrogates are race-baiting in order to agitate minorities in what will be the final tense days of the election. There will be an outright threat of racial violence and rioting if 0bama loses made in the final 48 to 72 hours. The goal is to intimidate America into voting for 0bama or face the consequences, much like the OJ Simpson jury was faced with finding OJ not guilty or watching LA burn.
Rush didnt take his hypothesis to its natural, obvious conclusion. This is not about having an excuse the day after. This is about making a threat the day before.
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