TheManWithAUsername wrote:First off, OP started off by saying "See! Reps aren't racist!" This didn't start with anyone calling Reps racist, so I don't know why conservatives are complaining about the race card in this thread.

Second, instead of just blah blah blah from your personal self-evaluation and your casual judgment of what you see around you, why not look at the data? The studies show that Reps are more racist - i.e., that a Rep is more likely to think less of a black man.

Anonymous wrote:I am a republican and I like Cain because of his positions--not because he is African-American. Other repubs dislike Cain because of his positions--not because he is African-American. It is that simple. The eventual candidate will get the nomination based upon ideals and positions not because of race. You demean everyone's intelligence--including yours--when you try to tie everything to an issue of race. Enough already.

article wrote:Another study presented at the conference, which was in Palm Springs, Calif., explored relationships between racial bias and political affiliation by analyzing self-reported beliefs, voting patterns and the results of psychological tests that measure implicit attitudes -- subtle stereotypes people hold about various groups.
That study found that supporters of President Bush and other conservatives had stronger self-admitted and implicit biases against blacks than liberals did.
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For their study, Nosek, Banaji and social psychologist Erik Thompson culled self-acknowledged views about blacks from nearly 130,000 whites, who volunteered online to participate in a widely used test of racial bias that measures the speed of people's associations between black or white faces and positive or negative words. The researchers examined correlations between explicit and implicit attitudes and voting behavior in all 435 congressional districts.
The analysis found that substantial majorities of Americans, liberals and conservatives, found it more difficult to associate black faces with positive concepts than white faces -- evidence of implicit bias. But districts that registered higher levels of bias systematically produced more votes for Bush.
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Vincent Hutchings, a political scientist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, said the results matched his own findings in a study he conducted ahead of the 2000 presidential election: Volunteers shown visual images of blacks in contexts that implied they were getting welfare benefits were far more receptive to Republican political ads decrying government waste than volunteers shown ads with the same message but without images of black people.
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"If anyone in Washington is skeptical about these findings, they are in denial," [another professor] said. "We have 50 years of evidence that racial prejudice predicts voting. Republicans are supported by whites with prejudice against blacks. If people say, 'This takes me aback,' they are ignoring a huge volume of research."

Anonymous wrote:
NBC/WSJ poll: Cain now leads GOP pack

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44881446/ns/politics-decision_2012/#.TpZQGXJXKon

Cain checks in as the first choice of 27 percent of Republican voters in the poll, followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 23 percent and Perry at 16

Those damn racist republicans. It just keeps getting worse and worse...

Cain checks in as the first choice of 27 percent of Republican voters in the poll, followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 23 percent and Perry at 16

Anonymous wrote:The tea party itself is not racist, but I'd guess that almost all ravists ate tea party.

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/10/11/racist-republicans-flocking-to-cain/

Either a lot of Democrats have been slandering millions of American voters as racist, or the Tea Party hasn’t gotten the word that Herman Cain is African American. That is the only conclusion that can be drawn after a slew of recent polls shows that Cain is picking up the ‘teavangelical’ vote as former favorites like Michelle Bachmann and Rick Perry fade.