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Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 1:01:50 PM   
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Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama, study says
By Bonnie Davis
4:30 PM on 11/23/2009

When given a choice between a photo of a lighter-skinned version of Barack Obama versus a darker-skinned version, most voters who consider themselves Democrats last year selected the lighter version.

That's what research set to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences found after surveying voters before and after the 2008 presidential election.

The survey of nearly 400 voters in Chicago and at Arizona and Florida State universities sought to determine how different people "see the world" and what effect, if any, skin color plays in one's personal or group politics, says Emily Balcetis, one of the researchers. A focal point was Obama's position as "racially ambiguous" or biracial.

"We showed participants several different photos of Barack Obama, and asked them to rate how well each photo represented who he really is," Balcetis says, explaining the research methodology. "Unbeknownst to participants, we altered some of the photos to make the candidate's skin tone lighter, and some to make the candidate's skin tone darker, than it was in the original photograph."

One of the researchers, Eugene Caruso of the University of Chicago, discovered that participants whose partisanship was the same as that of the candidate "consistently rated the lightened photographs as more representative of the candidate than the darkened photographs, whereas participants whose partisanship did not match that of the candidate showed the opposite pattern."

What kind of conclusions can we draw from this?

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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 1:04:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wow, 400 folks and why? Whats the big deal how light or dark a person is? I don't at all get that.

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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 1:06:46 PM   
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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 1:07:47 PM   
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What kind of conclusions can we draw from this?


Should I decide to run for public office, I shouldn't go out by the pool and get a deeper tan.

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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 1:37:18 PM   
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What kind of conclusions can we draw from this?

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I dunno Firmhand.....what conclusions can we draw mate eh?

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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 1:39:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		What would republicans prefer? White I expect, don't remember any dark skin folk running for prez on that side last year.

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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 1:43:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		several undercover right-wingers were identified and disqualified from the test for drawing a noose on the pictures........ it proves about that much, really

a similar test produced much the same results for Naomi Campbell, Beyonce and other celebrities a few years back

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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 1:59:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		I would say it indicates we see people we like as similar to us, and people we don't like as unlike us. The sort of finding that ranks up there with water is wet.

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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 2:35:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		Given the silliness factor of the study...a more interesting question might be...what sort of conclusions can we draw from Firm having posted this?


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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 3:03:26 PM   
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Given the silliness factor of the study...a more interesting question might be...what sort of conclusions can we draw from Firm having posted this?


Haven't we all long since drawn the correct conclusion about Firm's obsession?

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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 3:06:43 PM   
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What we can draw from this is that the "study" was most likely financed with
TAXPAYER dollars- as are all meaningless university "studies"

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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 3:08:29 PM   
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

Given the silliness factor of the study...a more interesting question might be...what sort of conclusions can we draw from Firm having posted this?


Haven't we all long since drawn the correct conclusion about Firm's obsession?
Just thought I would throw it out there Ken....no need for anyone to go to the trouble of restating opinions long set in stone

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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 3:25:03 PM   
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What kind of conclusions can we draw from this?

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I don't know, maybe that you should follow the news more closely so you don't have to post three month old articles?

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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 3:30:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Quote from the linked article:

"One of the researchers, Eugene Caruso of the University of Chicago, discovered that participants whose partisanship was the same as that of the candidate "consistently rated the lightened photographs as more representative of the candidate than the darkened photographs, whereas participants whose partisanship did not match that of the candidate showed the opposite pattern."

In other words, conservatives tended to see Obama as black, while liberals tended to see him as white."

My conclusion- liberals tend to see Obama as being "one of us", representing our culture and values.

Conservatives see him as alien, an Other, a Stranger.

No wonder they are so freaked out over him.

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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 4:09:49 PM   
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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 4:15:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		This thread brought to mind the Times cover(at least I think it was the Times...could have been Newsweek) that famously darkened OJ's face when they used his mugshot for their cover.The obvious pandering to those who would see the darker skin tone as more threatening resulted in a well deserved shit storm.

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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 4:59:06 PM   
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By the look of things, I give it a month or threee,



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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 5:07:38 PM   
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What kind of conclusions can we draw from this?

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That some researchers have way too much time on their hands.


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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 5:09:36 PM   
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Wonder when the  "how big liberals think Obamas dick  is compared to what conservatives think" study will come out
By the look of things, I give it a month or threee,


Don't sweat it Lucy...either Firm or Sanity will notify us once the results are in (especially if it can somehow be slanted to show "liberals" in a less than flattering light)

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RE: Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama - 2/26/2010 5:25:44 PM   
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News
Liberals prefer a lighter skinned Obama, study says
By Bonnie Davis

whereas participants whose partisanship did not match that of the candidate showed the opposite pattern."

What kind of conclusions can we draw from this?

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Well we can conclude that both you and bonnie Davis have chosen to highlight the fact that Democrats prefered  a lighter Obama, there fore a suggestion of racism. Yet both fail to point out republicans see him as darker, which was also mentioned in the story. Why focus on one and not the other ?

A poor attempt at point scoring from you Firm

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