Will a Racist Vote Defeat Obama?
by Jeff Davis
A recent news article reports “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.”
Actually, those are some of the milder comments one gets from White Americans. Wallowing in an ocean of politically correct sheep dip like we do, we sometimes tend to lose sight of the fact that the overwhelming majority of Whites mostly agree with us on many topics, although they have been conditioned from birth never to say so and are terrified to appear “racist” in public.
The article notes “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…)