If you want her to be the next President of United States of America,
you're the biggest moonbat of them all.  What do all you wackos do,
elect McCain then hold prayer sessions that the 72-year-old makes it
four more years?  Maybe you could get John Ashcroft to lead them.

Speaking of moonbats, even the Moonies who own UPI admit Alaska is
suffering because of her political ambition:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/09/21/VP_nomination_hurting_Palin_in_Alaska/UPI
-22771222002681/

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's status
as the Republican U.S. vice presidential nominee is straining her
ability to govern in her home state, observers say.

Local residents say they resent the way the campaign of her running
mate, GOP presidential nominee John McCain, a U.S. senator from
Arizona, has allegedly co-opted the apparatus of the Alaska
statehouse, screening calls from constituents and reporters and
advising how to deal with the so-called "Troopergate" investigation,
The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.

"This Palin VP thing has Alaskans all stirred up. Much like Palin
divided the Republican Party, she has managed to divide the state over
her national candidacy," conservative talk-show host Dan Fagan said in
a commentary last week.

Anchorage Daily News wrote an editorial Saturday reading in part: "Why
did the McCain campaign take over the governor's office? Is it too
much to ask that Alaska's governor speak for herself, directly to
Alaskans, about her actions as Alaska's governor?"

Alaska Democrats, who were instrumental in helping Palin pass several
important reforms in her two years as governor, told the Times her
partisan actions as a vice presidential nominee have put an effective
end to that partnership.

The poll below shows that even some white Democrats still harbor
racist prejudices that just might be sufficient to keep a black man,
any black man, from being elected president.  What's interesting,
though, is how much higher the numbers are of racist prejudices
against black people in the White Republican camp.  We always said you
Republicans were racist a.sholes and now the statistics prove it.

The chart that shows how much more racist White Republicans are than
White Democrats is found at the URL for the article:

http://news.yahoo.com/page/election-2008-political-pulse-obama-race;_ylt=AugGSJa
NOeRVWNctxndhQcayFz4D

Enjoy!

Poll: Racial views steer some white Dems away from Obama

By RON FOURNIER and TREVOR TOMPSON, Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack
Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-
Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor
negative views toward blacks — many calling them "lazy," "violent,"
responsible for their own troubles.

The poll, conducted with Stanford University, suggests that the
percentage of voters who may turn away from Obama because of his race
could easily be larger than the final difference between the
candidates in 2004 — about two and one-half percentage points.

Certainly, Republican John McCain has his own obstacles: He's an ally
of an unpopular president and would be the nation's oldest first-term
president. But Obama faces this: 40 percent of all white Americans
hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, and that includes
many Democrats and independents.

More than a third of all white Democrats and independents — voters
Obama can't win the White House without — agreed with at least one
negative adjective about blacks, according to the survey, and they are
significantly less likely to vote for Obama than those who don't have
such views.

Such numbers are a harsh dose of reality in a campaign for the history
books. Obama, the first black candidate with a serious shot at the
presidency, accepted the Democratic nomination on the 45th anniversary
of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, a seminal moment
for a nation that enshrined slavery in its Constitution.

"There are a lot fewer bigots than there were 50 years ago, but that
doesn't mean there's only a few bigots," said Stanford political
scientist Paul Sniderman who helped analyze the exhaustive survey.

The pollsters set out to determine why Obama is locked in a close race
with McCain even as the political landscape seems to favor Democrats.
President Bush's unpopularity, the Iraq war and a national sense of
economic hard times cut against GOP candidates, as does that fact that
Democratic voters outnumber Republicans.

The findings suggest that Obama's problem is close to home — among his
fellow Democrats, particularly non-Hispanic white voters. Just seven
in 10 people who call themselves Democrats support Obama, compared to
the 85 percent of self-identified Republicans who back McCain.

The survey also focused on the racial attitudes of independent voters
because they are likely to decide the election.

Lots of Republicans harbor prejudices, too, but the survey found they
weren't voting against Obama because of his race. Most Republicans
wouldn't vote for any Democrat for president — white, black or brown.

Not all whites are prejudiced. Indeed, more whites say good things
about blacks than say bad things, the poll shows. And many whites who
see blacks in a negative light are still willing or even eager to vote
for Obama.

On the other side of the racial question, the Illinois Democrat is
drawing almost unanimous support from blacks, the poll shows, though
that probably wouldn't be enough to counter the negative effect of
some whites' views.

Race is not the biggest factor driving Democrats and independents away
from Obama. Doubts about his competency loom even larger, the poll
indicates. More than a quarter of all Democrats expressed doubt that
Obama can bring about the change they want, and they are likely to
vote against him because of that.

Three in 10 of those Democrats who don't trust Obama's change-making
credentials say they plan to vote for McCain.

Still, the effects of whites' racial views are apparent in the
polling.

Statistical models derived from the poll suggest that Obama's support
would be as much as 6 percentage points higher if there were no white
racial prejudice.

But in an election without precedent, it's hard to know if such models
take into account all the possible factors at play.

The AP-Yahoo News poll used the unique methodology of Knowledge
Networks, a Menlo Park, Calif., firm that interviews people online
after randomly selecting and screening them over telephone. Numerous
studies have shown that people are more likely to report embarrassing
behavior and unpopular opinions when answering questions on a computer
rather than talking to a stranger.

Other techniques used in the poll included recording people's
responses to black or white faces flashed on a computer screen, asking
participants to rate how well certain adjectives apply to blacks,
measuring whether people believe blacks' troubles are their own fault,
and simply asking people how much they like or dislike blacks.

"We still don't like black people," said John Clouse, 57, reflecting
the sentiments of his pals gathered at a coffee shop in Somerset,
Ohio.

Given a choice of several positive and negative adjectives that might
describe blacks, 20 percent of all whites said the word "violent"
strongly applied. Among other words, 22 percent agreed with
"boastful," 29 percent "complaining," 13 percent "lazy" and 11 percent
"irresponsible." When asked about positive adjectives, whites were
more likely to stay on the fence than give a strongly positive
assessment.

Among white Democrats, one third cited a negative adjective and, of
those, 58 percent said they planned to back Obama.

The poll sought to measure latent prejudices among whites by asking
about factors contributing to the state of black America. One finding:
More than a quarter of white Democrats agree that "if blacks would
only try harder, they could be just as well off as whites."

Those who agreed with that statement were much less likely to back
Obama than those who didn't.

Among white independents, racial stereotyping is not uncommon. For
example, while about 20 percent of independent voters called blacks
"intelligent" or "smart," more than one third latched on the adjective
"complaining" and 24 percent said blacks were "violent."

Nearly four in 10 white independents agreed that blacks would be
better off if they "try harder."

The survey broke ground by incorporating images of black and white
faces to measure implicit racial attitudes, or prejudices that are so
deeply rooted that people may not realize they have them. That test
suggested the incidence of racial prejudice is even higher, with more
than half of whites revealing more negative feelings toward blacks
than whites.

Researchers used mathematical modeling to sort out the relative impact
of a huge swath of variables that might have an impact on people's
votes — including race, ideology, party identification, the hunger for
change and the sentiments of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's backers.

Just 59 percent of her white Democratic supporters said they wanted
Obama to be president. Nearly 17 percent of Clinton's white backers
plan to vote for McCain.

Among white Democrats, Clinton supporters were nearly twice as likely
as Obama backers to say at least one negative adjective described
blacks well, a finding that suggests many of her supporters in the
primaries — particularly whites with high school education or less —
were motivated in part by racial attitudes.

The survey of 2,227 adults was conducted Aug. 27 to Sept. 5. It has a
margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.1 percentage points

Who want some dumb country Hick

who'se so stupid she uses Yahoo for confidential state Business.

Who ?