The poll found that blacks and whites hold vastly different views of Sen. Barack Obama... 83 per cent of blacks had a favorable opinion of Mr Obama, compared with 31 per cent of white voters... On the status of race relations, 59 per cent of black respondents they were generally bad, compared with 34 per cent of whites who thought the same way. The nationwide telephone poll of 1796 adults showed that 39 per cent of blacks said there had been no real progress in recent years in getting rid of racial discrimination... Only 17 per cent of whites said the same thing. Twenty-seven percent of whites said too much had been made of problems facing black people, while half of blacks said not enough had been made of racial barriers faced by black people.the Buried Lead for today? 17 per cent of black voters didn't have a favorable opinion of Obama, and 69 per cent of white voters also didn't have a favorable opinion of Obama.
They don’t include a link to the poll. I’m guessing that the poll actually had 4 or 5 responses: Favorable, slightly favorable, slightly unfavorable, unfavorable. Something like that. Rasmussen polls favorability in that manner...I’d have to go over there to see exactly how he does it, but that’s in the ballpark.
I agree, however, that blacks in this country are not treated equally. I think we seriously injure any community by making government handouts available to those who have the capacity to work for their own living and establish their own independence.
The very best thing that could be done for the any race in America is to establish strict workfare for the unemployed and even for most of the disabled. We can complain about old programs like the CCC, but they did a lot of infra-structure work on smaller roads and bridges that was going undone.