Comments on: The Near-Death Experience of Racism in America http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2008/11/19/the-near-death-experience-of-racism-in-america/ A civil rights blog promoting informed discourse on issues of race, justice, equality and democracy. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:11:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: howembarassing http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2008/11/19/the-near-death-experience-of-racism-in-america/comment-page-1/#comment-7 howembarassing Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:52:44 +0000 http://thedefendersonline.org/?p=1378#comment-7 Sort of confused by your use of the exit poll data in the end. It might make more sense to compare Obama to Kerry in 2004 or Gore in 2000 to get a better sense of how race played into the vote (what about Charles Franklin or Nate Silver on the issue, or this from Pew: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1023/exit-poll-analysis-2008). It actually looks like Obama made gains in terms of his support from Latino voters and high-earning whites, for example, in comparison to Kerry. This doesn't mean that race wasn't a factor for these voters, but it is more encouraging--and nuanced--than the brief picture you paint. Also, how can you say that "Only the educated middle class and 66% of young voters came out for Obama’s candidacy without regard to race"? What if they would have supported him even more if he were white? How do people know these things? Also, how e Sort of confused by your use of the exit poll data in the end. It might make more sense to compare Obama to Kerry in 2004 or Gore in 2000 to get a better sense of how race played into the vote (what about Charles Franklin or Nate Silver on the issue, or this from Pew: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1023/exit-poll-analysis-2008). It actually looks like Obama made gains in terms of his support from Latino voters and high-earning whites, for example, in comparison to Kerry. This doesn’t mean that race wasn’t a factor for these voters, but it is more encouraging–and nuanced–than the brief picture you paint.
Also, how can you say that “Only the educated middle class and 66% of young voters came out for Obama’s candidacy without regard to race”? What if they would have supported him even more if he were white? How do people know these things?

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