[lbo-talk] race costing Obama about 6 points

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Sep 22 17:48:16 PDT 2008


On Sep 22, 2008, at 8:28 PM, shag wrote:


> earlier today, at lunch, i was reviewing the write ups around this
> poll.

AP's chief political correspondent, Ron Fournier, is purported to be some sort of Republican. So, by doing this poll, AP gets to inject race into the campaign - i.e, remind white people, in case they hadn't noticed, that Obama's black. Not to be cynical or anything.

Doug



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