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Posted on 08/03/2008 8:34:44 AM PDT by LdSentinal
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the nation’s voters say they’ve seen news coverage of the McCain campaign commercial that includes images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and suggests that Barack Obama is a celebrity just like them. Of those, just 22% say the ad was racist while 63% say it was not.
However, Obama’s comment that his Republican opponent will try to scare people because Obama does not look like all the other presidents on dollar bills was seen as racist by 53%. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree.
Both campaigns expressed a desire to move beyond the recent flap. On Saturday Obama backed off the racism charge and accused McCain's campaign of cynicism instead. He also rejected McCain's charge that the Democrat himself had brought race into the campaign with his dollar bill comment.
Two months after Obama clinched the Democratic Presidential Nomination, the race for the White House remains amazingly close in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.
Not surprisingly, the McCain ad generates significantly different perceptions along racial and ethnic lines. Most African-American voters—58%--saw the McCain ad as racist. Just 18% of white voters and 14% of all other voters shared that view. To watch the ad, click HERE.
As for Obama’s comment, 53% of white voters saw it as racist, as did 44% of African-Americans and 61% of all other voters.
There were also significant partisan divides. Democrats were evenly divided as to whether the McCain commercial was racist, and they were also evenly divided on the Obama comment. Republicans, by an 87% to 4% margin, rejected the notion that the McCain campaign ad was racist. But, by a 67% to 26% margin, GOP voters believe that Obama’s comment was racist.
Unaffiliated voters, by a five-to-one margin, said the McCain ad was not racist. By a much narrower 50% to 38% margin, unaffiliateds viewed Obama’s comment as racist.
Overall, just 22% of voters believe that most Americans are racist. That view is shared by 32% of Democrats, 20% of unaffiliated voters and 12% of Republicans. African-American voters are evenly divided on the question.
Senator McCain, why insult Britney Spears and Paris Hilton?
Obama still leads by 1 point today (47 - 46) in Rasmussen’s Daily Poll, last Sunday he was leading by 6. Sorry Obambi, too bad.
I’m kinda’ at a loss here. How does obama-ites equate the McCain ad to racism? By comparing a black person to whites? I just plain don’t see it!
The reality is shown below:
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“how do the” replaces “does” . . .
22% say selection of Cantor for VP racist
Obama: "Shows nostalgia for days of blackface crooner Eddie Cantor"
If Obama keeps pushing that any negative comment is racist, he might just split that Black vote.
Have you forgotten Obama is half white? ;-)
According to the Obama campaign, that 44% of African Americans must be members of the Ku Klux Klan.
“Obama still leads by 1 point today (47 - 46) in Rasmussen’s Daily Poll, last Sunday he was leading by 6. Sorry Obambi, too bad.”
This is, Obama at 47% is done. It will never go higher.
Sounds like 22% are a bit racist themselves.
Their convoluted arguments were that McCain was implying that ObamaOsama was being presented as a black person who steals white women away from white men, something on that order. It really took a suspension of reality, to quote the hilda beast,to see the ad in that light.
This white women "issue" is connected to Tennessee, I believe.
The Republican Party ran a television advertisement where a white woman, played by Johanna Goldsmith, talks about meeting [black candidate] Ford, who was unmarried at the time, at "the Playboy party." The ad was denounced by many people, including former Republican Senator and Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton, William Cohen, who called it "a very serious appeal to a racist sentiment." [from an Internet source]
Racist against what? Fake blondes?
Your being statist now.
If McCain declares the sky blue at least 30% of people polled would say it’s a racist comment. That response is hard-wired into a percentage of the population.
So this is The One dollar bill they are talking about.
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