I think Al Giordano is correct to call Ron Fournier a racial arsonist. Beyond that, I’ll just direct you to his reasoning. You’re welcome to come back when you’re done and have a conversation about Fournier’s finer points as a human being.
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Who cares? More important stuff:
North Carolina is officially a toss-up.
Now, if y’all will excuse me, I’m going to go have a beer.
Al’s post is related to the tied race in North Carolina.
More importantly on that poll, Hagan has broken into the upper-40s, and Dole’s been beaten down to 41.
Al is sharp as a tack.
AL is a sharpie.
but in 45 days, we’ll really know that status of race.
My theory is that the Bradley Effect is going to be used to cover GOP vote flipping. When the numbers once again come up off 5% from exit polls, this will be what the media blames.
Not Diebold voting machines. It’s important to establish it as an excuse now.
I have not trusted one word written by AP about Barack Obama since October 2007, when they outright LIED about Obama’s speech in Hampton, Virginia. From that moment on, if I saw AP attached to an Obama story, I began with the premise that it was a lie.
Whenever I see an AP story, I immediately look to see who wrote it. I overlooked Fournier’s name on this one when I first saw it, or else I might have been more skeptical.
I am glad to read Al Giordano’s piece about the general topic, but I disagree with Giordano that Fournier made “racially incendiary claims”, although the Fournier’s bias is more evident upon re-reading it. For example, the article focuses on racism by Democrats. And how about those Republicans? In comparison with the detailed analysis of Democratic racism, he downplays Republican racism with:
In other words, Republican racism? There’s nothing to see, move along. And though Fournier gave ample descriptions of racism by independents, I suspect that the poll lacked sufficient sampling of independent voters to provide any valid analysis of their opinions. The poll summary didn’t even provide a MOE for that population.
My problems with Giordano’s rebuttal are (1) he criticizes the AP article for something that he acknowledges that it isn’t: an assertion or prediction of the Bradly effect; and (2) at face value, Giordano’s rebuttal seems to underplay the actual role of racism in this election.
Despite the faults of Fournier’s political hackery, I do think something major on the effect of racism had to be written, and I’m only surprised it took so long. There’s clearly a need for a better analysis than the AP story. What good I can take away from the topic is an increased motivation to canvass and support Obama because I believe that race is certainly a factor for many voters.
Wasn’t there a poll a month or two ago saying that more voters were biased against age than were biased against race?
(And today on the back roads of this highly Republican county I live in, I saw many more Obama signs than McCain signs.)