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I know what you're thinking... why Maria do you keep beating us over the head with this race thing every week? I hear you. I'm just as tired writing about it as you are reading. Unfortunately the hits just keep on coming. They can't stop, won't stop. So, if like me, you've been living in a web conference vacuum and didn't read much, allow me to catch you up on some of the week's discussions.
Today there is discussion and analysis of an AP poll which found that a large percentage of whites have negative perceptions of blacks. However, several bloggers have done an excellent job of analyzing possible sources of bias in the reporting and conduct of the poll.
rikyrah at Jack & Jill Politics links to a number of sources which look at potential bias on the part of Ron Fournier who wrote the article and who reportedly vigorously sought a position with the McCain campaign as well as the problematic pursuit of the Bradley Effect.
Elisa Camahort Page writes about the BS of the poll and gives personal insight into the panel the polling company used to conduct their research.
Karen Tumulty of Time Magazine at their Swampland Blog accused McCain of playing the race card with a new campaign ad. Jill Tubman at Jack & Jill Politics challenges the McCain campaign on the facts and Michael Shaw at the Huffington Post sees a pattern in McCain ads.
In response, the McCain campaign accused Tumulty of being "hysterical." The irony is that had Tumulty called Palin hysterical the McCain campaign would have expressed outrage about sexism they claim is rampant.
On the Rachel Maddow Show, Time blogger Ana Marie Cox who traveled with the McCain campaign this week noted that she while she did not believe the ad to be intentionally racist, that the McCain campaign does both welcome and throw out charges of racism and sexism as they've seen how well such wedges rally the conservative base.
On her blog, Cox also notes that McCain has slightly corrected one of his references. Nevertheless, another attack in the same speech on Obama's patriotism (when such attacks in this campaign have repeatedly been called out for their covert racism) prompts Time's Joe Klein to call it McCain's "sleaziest smear."
Jill Tubman discusses reports that as Governor, Palin ignored a tradition of state support for Juneteenth celebrations (Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of slaves) and references a book that looks at McCain's history of racism including his insistence on using a racial slur towards Asians because, despite his wife's claims to the contrary at the RNC, he has not nor will not forgive his captors in Vietnam.
Here at BlogHer, CE lainad covers the launch of the Voter Suppression Wiki by Jack Turner and Jill Tubman at Jack & Jill Politics. Voter suppression is used to prevent voting by a number of historically disenfranchised groups, notably people of color.
And Pam Spaulding at Pam's House Blend covers the Florida Freakshow protest by 'Blacks Against Obama' whose racist and misogynist beliefs include:
* Black women are destroying the black man
* Oprah is the devil, leading all women down this path;
* Obama is the enabler of this destruction of the black man.
Sigh. See y'all again next week.
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