Sunday - a day when the average American can kick back and read the analytical news pieces some hard working reporter has spent his week sweating over. This Sunday's reading: how racial views could impact the presidential election and potentially cost Barack Obama the White House.
Well, no surprises here - there are still people in America whose votes are swayed by the color of one's skin. They're also swayed by gender, religion and a general sense of how close the candidate's views resemble the voter's.
But this is a bit more insidious, suggesting that Obama's race could be the deciding factor in what costs him the campaign. Words such as "violent" and "lazy" pop up in the survey, revealing that America still has its fair share of bigots, or would-be bigots or maybe those guys who just lock their car doors when a black guy walks by and really doesn't have anything personal against Obama.
" 'We still don't like black people,' " said John Clouse, 57, reflecting the sentiments of his pals gathered at a coffee shop in Somerset, Ohio."
Wow. Usually, comments like that are given anonymously. Anyways, that quotation from the story about this poll is likely heard across this country daily, though it's probably be whispered to one's friends instead of openly said to a reporter.
Or maybe instead of spoken, it'd be influential in which button is pressed come election day - and that's about as an anonymous comment as anyone in this country can make.
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