Ta-Nehisi Coates (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Sorry, but this article is pretty stupid and well critiqued by the Obama campaign. The older I get the more I think that journalism--daily journalism, especially--is simply incapable of dealing with something as nuanced as the black-white relations in this...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
A Question from Katie Couric on Wednesday night illustrated how members of the media will use lack of majority support amongst whites for Barack Obama to raise potential racism. Citing a new CBS News/New York Times poll in which Obama leads McCain by 45 to 39 percent overall, Couric pointed out “it showed that John McCain had a slim lead over Barack Obama” (by 46 to 37 percent) with white voters so,...
MyDD (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The new CBS News/New York Times poll gives Barack Obama a 6 point national lead over John McCain but if NYTimes' Adam Nagourney is to be believed, it's doom for Barack Obama, doom I tell ya, with his frontpage headline blaring " Poll Finds Obama Isn't Closing Divide on Race ." The Obama campaign's rapid response team wasted no time in pushing back against this framing with a memo that hit the Times...
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The key finding in the CBS NYTimes Poll is not the 6 point lead it shows for Barack Obama, 45-39. And it isn't the race relations stuff Adam Nagourney fixated on that has some of the blogs hopping mad (and apparently and foolishly, the Obama campaign .) The key findings come from Question 42, which asks "If John McCain were elected President, do you think he would generally continue George Bush's...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
So many race polls, so little insight. Today's sober NY Times poll on the presidential election and race relations comes to the very same conclusions that the wacky Washington Post poll --which turned into a game of "White People: So You Think You're Not Racist?" --found last month: Blacks really love Obama and whites kinda like McCain. Good work, fellas! The Obama campaign hit back hard this morning,...
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The Obama campaign is righteously p.o.'ed at Adam Nagourney and Megan Thee. Ta-Nehisi Coates draws a broader lesson: > Ta-Nehisi Coates: New York Times Uncovers A Shocker--Blacks and Whites Disagree: Sorry, but this article is pretty stupid and well critiqued by the Obama campaign. The older I get the more I think that journalism--daily journalism, especially--is simply incapable of dealing with something...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
By Greg Sargent TPM July 16, 2008 The Obama campaign is taking issue with The New York Times this morning over the paper's front-page piece today on the Times poll released last night, critiquing the story for omitting a great deal of the paper's own poll polling data that suggests a different conclusion than the story reached. The Obama campaign sent over a detailed critique of the story, which concludes...
Burning Cane (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
What Do Whites Want? :: Why The Papers Are Getting The Race Polls Wrong Jeff Chang July 16, 2008 Vibe So many race polls, so little insight. Today's sober NY Times poll on the presidential election and race relations comes to the very same conclusions that the wacky Washington Post poll --which turned into a game of "White People: So You Think You're Not Racist?" --found last month: Blacks really...
Can't Stop Won't Stop (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
So many race polls, so little insight. Today's sober NY Times poll on the presidential election and race relations comes to the very same conclusions that the wacky Washington Post poll —which turned into a game of "White People: So You Think You're Not Racist?" —found last month: Blacks really love Obama and whites kinda like McCain. Good work, fellas! The Obama campaign hit back hard this morning,...
Where's the Outrage? (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
A new New York Times survey has Barack Obama leading John McCain by 45% to 39%. Okay—No surprise. Reading the polling data, one question did stand out. People were asked what percentage of the country was black. The Census Bureau reports that in 2006, 12.8% of the American public was black. That number added up to about 38.3 million people. In [...]
TexasLiberal (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
A new New York Times survey has Barack Obama leading John McCain by 45% to 39%. Okay—No surprise. Reading the polling data, one question did stand out. People were asked what percentage of the country was black. The Census Bureau reports that in 2006, 12.8% of the American public was black. That number added up to about 38.3 million people. In the [...]
The Politicker (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Cory Booker is livid over a zombie-filled Esquire article on Newark. [ Media Mob ] Eliot Brown reports that Christine Quinn is still a major favorite among real estate donors. [ The Real Estate ] The Obama campaign doesn't agree with the conclusions of a front-page New York Times article that asserted a poll showed Obama dividing voters on race. [ T.P.M. ] In a speech to the NAACP, John McCain pushed...
