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To: Road Walker who wrote (422254)	10/5/2008 12:59:08 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1575775

A sobering account of the role racism will play in election in Missouri and maybe the nation. Warning: its a long one. "41 percent said no when the Gallup polling group dialed up Americans to ask: “If your party nominated a well-qualified man for president and he happened to be a Negro, would you vote for him?” That was August 1961, the month Obama was born. Gallup again raised the question last December, rewording it to make your party’s nominee a “well-qualified person … who happened to be black.” 5 percent said no. They’re quieter and probably fewer today, the experts say. Still, how many racists does it take to screw up an election? It’s not a joke. And the answer is: Not very many in a close one. An exhaustive study released last month by The Associated Press-Yahoo News, with help from Stanford University, offered up complex statistical models suggesting that prejudice was costing Obama as much as six percentage points in support among white Democrats and independent voters nationwide. It may not sound like a huge bloc, but six points are enough to bury many politicians. A late September poll conducted by Research 2000 for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and KMOV-TV showed John McCain had a 56 to 38 percent advantage among Missouri’s white voters. “It’s very much about race,” said Jumoke Balogun, an African-American senior at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, at a recent roundtable sponsored by The Kansas City Star and KCUR-FM. “If you look at it, it’s a Democratic year,” she said. “You have an unpopular president. You have John McCain, who’s messing up in some ways. But you have Obama struggling to win people over.”" kansascity.com