|
tazzygirl -> RE: NYT article on lack of respect by GOP (9/3/2011 4:54:46 PM)
|
Btw, an AP-Yahoo poll done in 2008 reflected that 8% admitted they would not vote for Obama because he was black.
I was talking the other day to a prominent Republican who asked me what I thought John McCain’s strongest issues would be in the general election.
Lower taxes and the argument he will be better able to protect America from its enemies, I said.
Republicans have a pretty good track record with those two.
The Republican shook his head. “You’re missing the most important one,” he said. “Race. McCain runs against Barack Obama and the race vote is worth maybe 15 percent to McCain.”
The man I was talking to is not a racist; he was just stating what he believes to be a fact: There is a percentage of the American electorate who will simply not vote for a black person no matter what his qualities or qualifications.
How big is that percentage? An AP-Yahoo poll conducted April 2-14 found that “about 8 percent of whites would be uncomfortable voting for a black for president.”
I don’t know if 8 percent sounds high or low to you, but I was amazed that 8 percent of respondents were willing to admit this to a pollster. And I figure that the true figure is much higher.
........
And consider this little nugget from Monday’s Washington Post, in a story by Kevin Merida and Jose Antonio Vargas datelined Scranton, Pa.:
“Barack Obama’s campaign opened a downtown office here on March 15, just in time for the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade. It was not a glorious day for Team Obama. Some of the green signs the campaign had trucked in by the thousands were burned during the parade, and campaign volunteers — white volunteers — were greeted with racial slurs.”
Signs burned? Racial slurs shouted out loud? In this day and age? Maybe that 15 percent estimate is low.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9761.html
You dont find it disturbing that people would actually admit to not voting for someone based upon skin color alone?
You spoke of Palin/Backmann. I was ready and eager to vote for Palin... then she opened her mouth. It had nothing to do with skin color... and everything to do with her own stupidity. She isnt a woman I would ever call "friend", not even someone I would wish to know... based upon her own actions/words.
Obama wasnt even given the chance to screw up before he was dismissed... simply because of his skin color, according to those 8% who responded to that poll.
To me, thats "often" enough.
|
|
|
|
