From an article
in the BBC today. I offer you two statements that defy explanation:
An AP/Yahoo poll earlier this year said that 8% of white voters it asked admitted they would be uncomfortable voting for an African-American candidate.
Even after the prolonged Obama media blitz, a Pew Research Centre poll last month suggested that only 57% of voters even knew he was a Christian. More than one in 10 still thinks he is Muslim.
I don't care if you disagree with him, I don't care if you don't vote for him: regarding the second statement,
don't be a moron! The very
least you can do as a voter is know the facts about the people vying to hold the most important job in our country, if not in the world.
On the first statement, I can't help but think of the old joke about not wanting to be judged by 12 people too stupid to get out of jury duty: who would want to lead a country if they have to appeal to
24 million people whose biggest concern is the color of a person's skin? (Yes, that number is 8% of the
total U.S. population, so even given the statistical margin of error for a poll, many, many millions of people are indeed
THAT bigoted.)
A clever little game to make tonight's debate fun and exciting for the whole family. If you don't see this post before the debate (and why the heck didn't you?), you can play it over and over again by using the video archive of the fiasco on CNN.com.
