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Hope And Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 09:56 AM
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90 percent of whites would be comfortable with a black president
Poll: Most White Voters Comfortable With Black President


Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

The WashPost/ABC poll finds nearly 90 percent of whites would be comfortable with a black president, with about two-thirds being “entirely comfortable.”

Approval is much lower for someone entering the White House at 72.


http://thepage.time.com/2008/06/22/poll-most-white-voters-comfortable-with-black-president/
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 09:58 AM
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1. Of course we would
It's just those backwards rural whites who even have an inkling of an issue with it.

And "rural" is everywhere.
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 10:02 AM
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3. Thanks for putting "rural" in context
I've met racists living in big cities as well as the country.
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Yurovsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 10:04 AM
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6. Fortunately, by definition rural = sparsely populated ...
hence not as many votes at stake. I would imagine many of the folks in question went GOP a long time ago.

I look at this being a landslide of historic proportions. If Senator Obama can pull off a victory on the order of magnitude shown by the latest Newsweek poll, you could be looking at a huge house majority combined with a fillibuster-proof Senate majority. 8 years of such an arrangement will be a minimum requirement to reverse the damage done to this country after 8 years of Chimpy & Evil Dick.

I wish the election were tomorrow.
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 10:11 AM
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9. That was my point
For all the talk of Obama having trouble with white, rural voters, you'd think there were tons of these people.

There's not.

Most people - of any color - live in or around large cities.

That's why a Democrat can win with a map like this:
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Yurovsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 10:15 AM
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11. Looks good to me ...
and I saw a poll this a.m. showing GA to be moving toward Obama (1-pt lead for gramps in a normally solid GOP state).

Look at the ad buys that Obama is making right now... mostly in red states that he wants to put into play. This could be the biggest Democratic presidential victory since 1964.
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 10:01 AM
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2. I think that is because
as a person gets older, they are prone to many more health risks. And the Presidency is probably the most stressful job anyone can have; history has shown us how it takes a toll on a person's health (look at FDR, for example). Whereas the tone of one's skin has nothing to do with one's fitness for office.
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Doityourself Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 10:02 AM
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4. This is good news...I need to run..lmao!
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Colobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 10:03 AM
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5. America is ready for Obama.
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JMDEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 10:07 AM
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7. That's cool.
What about a half black guy raised by white parents in white culture?
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 10:07 AM
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8. The country has made the turn. Landslide for Obama
That poll is the worst news the racist and Repukes wanted to see
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Doityourself Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 10:13 AM
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10. Glad you said "racist" cuz in my life some of the worst have been Dems, belive it or not
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 02:10 PM
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14. Then there's the hostility between the black and Hispanic communities, and
the black and Hispanic communities and those from Asia and South Asia...
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 10:15 AM
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12. Well, good golly, why not?
Just 'cause we're holdin' hands don't mean we're gonna be takin' long showers together.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 02:08 PM
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13. We've had black governors, USNA super, head of subs Atlantic Fleet, Chair of JCS...
head coaches of football and baseball teams, etc.

There are a lot of examples of black men in leadership and authority positions.

Women just are still not trusted to host a game show, a late night talk show, a Sunday morning news/chat show or to be a spokesman for a financial institution on television.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 02:12 PM
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15. 10% is still pretty huge for those who aren't
Hopeful yet sad IMO
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democrattotheend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 02:37 PM
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16. Correction
90% of whites SAY they would be comfortable with a black president. Big difference.
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 02:43 PM
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17. Thanks to numerous sci fi movies? nt
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