One-third? Democrats?

[GarMan]

What a pile of horse dung...  Here come the excuses.  It seems as if he's still falling behind in many of the key polls. 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26803840

Poll: Racial views steer some away from Obama
One-third of polled white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks

updated 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them "lazy," "violent" or responsible for their own troubles.

The poll, conducted with Stanford University, suggests that the percentage of voters who may turn away from Obama because of his race could easily be larger than the final difference between the candidates in 2004 — about two and one-half percentage points.

Certainly, Republican John McCain has his own obstacles: He's an ally of an unpopular president and would be the nation's oldest first-term president. But Obama faces this: 40 percent of all white Americans hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, and that includes many Democrats and independents.

'Less likely to vote for Obama'
More than a third of all white Democrats and independents — voters Obama can't win the White House without — agreed with at least one negative adjective about blacks, according to the survey, and they are significantly less likely to vote for Obama than those who don't have such views.

Such numbers are a harsh dose of reality in a campaign for the history books. Obama, the first black candidate with a serious shot at the presidency, accepted the Democratic nomination on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, a seminal moment for a nation that enshrined slavery in its Constitution.

"There are a lot fewer bigots than there were 50 years ago, but that doesn't mean there's only a few bigots," said Stanford political scientist Paul Sniderman who helped analyze the exhaustive survey.

The pollsters set out to determine why Obama is locked in a close race with McCain even as the political landscape seems to favor Democrats. President Bush's unpopularity, the Iraq war and a national sense of economic hard times cut against GOP candidates, as does that fact that Democratic voters outnumber Republicans.
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The Obama blesses the crowd as "He" waives "His" right hand over them.

[Tiger Six]

That is such bullshit. 

I am more concerned that people are not concerned with his policies or his inexperience in executive matters. 

[JohnDeere]

That is such bullshit. 

I am more concerned that people are not concerned with his policies or his inexperience in executive matters. 

Agreed, that is bullshit.

If Colin Powell was running for president in 2008 as an independent, the Democrats wouldn't even have bothered to have a primary election. The two-thirds of the nation wouldn even know who Obama is and the other third would still be thinking he was left wing muslim nut case from majority African American district in Chicago.

[kirkAU]

i agree with the bullshit call as well.  i do think, as probably most of you do, race will probably be a factor among some voters, but not all.  but again, as stated above, what is more concerning are barry's policies and beliefs and the logical consequences of them.  Hopefully the debates will force obama to own up to most of his policy beliefs.

[GarMan]