Gallup Poll suggests Obama supporters are racist.

Isn’t that headline incendiary?  Of course it is, but it pales compared to what our corrupt lying media has been doing.  For example, Campbell Brown almost exploded what tiny excuse for a brain she had last night because somebody mentioned Obama’s middle name.  She can’t understand why McCain’s supporters are so racist.  Likewise, Andrea Mitchell is losing sleep in her Georgetown mansion over the fact that people of color might take offense at McCain’s use of “that one”.  Nevermind that Mitchell wouldn’t be caught dead  in the neighborhoods of those people of color that are only blocks away from her own home.  

But now Gallup has a poll that shows it is actually Obama’s supporters who are more likely to show bias against a candidate based on his race.  According to that poll, nonwhites (a term not defined in the article btw) are twice as likely to not vote for John McCain because of his race than white people are to withold their votes from Obama because of his.  Will this get ANY airtime in the media?  Of course not.   And what you definitely won’t hear, but which this poll suggests, is that Obama actually benefits because of his race.  And this is largely due to the racial bias of his supporters.  Let’s look at the numbers.   First here are the numbers for Obama:

Nonwhites who say they are more likely to vote for Obama because of his race is double that of whites, and actually reaches a statistically significant 15%.  now lets take a look at the nubmers for McCain:

Nonwhites are almost twice as likely to not vote for John McCain than whites are to not vote for Obama based on his race.  This is what Gallup had to say about it:

While 6% of voters say they are less likely to vote for Barack Obama because of his race, 9% say they are more likely to vote for him, making the impact of his race a neutral to slightly positive factor when all voters’ self-reported attitudes are taken into account.

The potential impact of Obama’s race on the election has been the more scrutinized this year. These data, taken at face value, show that if anything, his race could be a net plus, in the sense that it makes slightly more voters want to vote for him than not want to vote for him.

Of course, what they don’t mention is the negative impact this has on McCain.  They say that race is a net plus for Obama but leave out that it actually is a net loss for McCain.   When it comes to racial voting, Obama comes up +2% because of his race.

Of course I think all of this game playing with race is dangerous.  This poll is meaningless except for the fact that it shows that race can be used any way the pollster damn well pleases to get the results they want.   It reminds me of the media going out of their way to paint people in WV and KY as racist just because the exit polls showed 1 in 5 said that race played a factor in their vote.  Nevermind that they didn’t ask what race and how.  Ignored as well was the fact that exit polls in very blue, and therefore non-racist, Connecticut showed the exact same pattern.  Incidentally, isn’t this exactly the same thing that Gerry Ferraro said that got her into so much trouble?

Poor John McCain.  If only Americans weren’t so racist….