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Old 10-09-2008, 11:45 AM   #71 (permalink)
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ace--like i said, asking questions and conducting research implies a hypothesis or a question. i'm interested in the results--but i suspect that the state of affairs in the states is such that it's more ok to be a racist than it is to say you're one. so i don't know what the polls will show. i'm not surprised the question's come up, though. are you arguing that it should not have? on what basis?

saying "if you do not support obama, you're a racist" is totally different from asking a question and conducting research to see what it might lead to. and the first does not come from the second, except maybe for someone with an axe to grind, who's maybe concerned about the results of a poll being embarassing.

but like i said at the outset of this, i don't know what such polls would find.
doesn't mean it's not an interesting question.
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