Links With Your Coffee - Friday
- Huckabee Claims He’s Ready to be President From ‘Day Six,’ LITERALLY!
- Romney To Spend More Time With His Money
Mitt Romney explained today that he was dropping out of the U.S. Presidential race in order to spend more time with his money. Romney said that the time on the campaign trail had really harmed his ability to spend "quality time with my bills."
- Racism and Sexism on Super Tuesday
Barack Obama squeaked out a narrow win on Super Tuesday to expand his small lead in the pledged delegates. While many of the exit polls were off as predictions, these polls do provide us with one of the best national tests of to what extent voters will admit to racist or sexist motivations. And they also tell us an important fact: Obama was hurt by race-based voting, while Clinton was greatly helped by gender-based voting. More Democratic voters admitted to racist motivations in opposing Obama (an average of 2.88% of the voters) than admitted to sexist motivations in opposing Clinton (an average of 1.83%). Overall, the racist vote outweighed the pro-black vote for Obama by an average of 0.5%. By contrast, the pro-woman vote for Clinton outweighed the sexist vote by an average of 5.0%. That’s a 5.5% swing in each state. The continuing significance of racism (beyond the expressed levels of sexism) was a key factor in why Obama didn’t win a decisive victory over Clinton on Tuesday.
- CAPITOL WATCH: Lieberman No Longer a Super Delegate
- When It’s Head Versus Heart, The Heart Wins
Science shows that when we are deciding which candidate to support, anxiety, enthusiasm and whom we identify with count more than reason or logic.
- The Joy of Writing by Wislawa Szymborska - John Baker’s Blog
Why does this written doe bound through these written woods?
For a drink of written water from a spring
whose surface will xerox her soft muzzle?
Why does she lift her head; does she hear something?
Perched on four slim legs borrowed from the truth,
she pricks up her ears beneath my fingertips.
Silence - this word also rustles across the page
and parts the boughs
that have sprouted from the word “woods.”
Comments
wow, these are just the figures for those DEMOCRATIC voters who actually ADMITTED to a pollster their sexism/racism.
the mind boggles.
You know, Obama is just as much white as he is black. He's biologically both. Every time someone says, "Is the U.S. ready for a black president?" they could just as accurately ask, "Is the U.S. ready for a white president?"
uhhhhh,
Black is a social group not a genetic trait. I don't think ones percentage is really part of the calculation.
Firi: it's called hypodescent. legally - this is the law - anyone who is 1/32nd black is black. you can search for the trial. i think it was in mississippi in the late 70s. something to do with hereditary conditions...
"Black is a social group not a genetic trait. I don't think ones percentage is really part of the calculation."
It depends on one's definition, but I think it's pretty clear genetics has a lot to do with one's skin color.
People/institutions sometimes consider others similar to Obama to be bi-racial (or more generally, multi-racial).
Even by your standard, if someone with a black parent and a white parent is considered black, what about someone with one black grandparent and three white grandparents? Or one black great-grandparent and seven white great-grandparents?
I'd like to know how they calculated the "racist vote". You can't tell me that Obama being black didn't account for him having 80% of the black vote in South Carolina, or having huge black support wherever there was a large black proportion of the population. Of course, all the media focuses on is whether or not whites voted for him or not. Also, yes, being black IS genetic. How do you think someone is born with black traits, or someone is born with white, asian, hispanic, native American traits?
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