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Originally Posted by roachboy
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.
it's not much different from asking people whether they don't support mc-cain because of his age, really.
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If you follow the logic in the article regarding the poll, it seemed that the premise was that Obama should have a big lead and he doesn't because a measurable and significant number of voters are racist. I find the premise offensive. I don't dispute their right or interest in exploring the question, but given the premise I think they may have forced or at least incorrectly interpreted uncorrelated data to come to a faulty conclusion. Like the old joke related to statistical study - 99% of violent criminals ate a wheat based product (bread, crackers, cake, etc) before committing a violent crime, therefore wheat based products cause people to commit violent crimes. As a non-violent criminal I find that kind of logic offensive as well.