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Another beautiful theory slain by a gang of ugly facts
The RBC — [image] Another beautiful theory slain by a gang of ugly facts New York Times glibertarian columnist John Tierney put up an even-dimmer-than-usual blog post (which of course Glenn Reynolds loved) arguing that the election of Obama disproved the idea that racial prejudice is pervasive. I made fun of Tierney's argument on strictly logical grounds: even bigot might not have wanted to vote for a third Bush term generically or the Geezer/Dingbat ticket in particular. In Tuesday's Times Adam Nossiter demolishes Tierney's argument by looking at some actual voting statistics (Obama did better then Kerry with every demographic ...

New York Times Death Spiral Watch (John Tierney Edition)
Grasping Reality with Both Hands — ... Outsourced to Mark Kleiman: The Reality-Based Community: Ask-me-a-hard-one Dep't: John Tierney, as quoted by Glenn Reynolds: If, as some social scientists have been telling us, 88 percent of whites have an “implicit bias” against blacks and in favor of whites, and if, according to exit polls, whites made up 74 percent of the voters on Tuesday, why is Barack Obama going to be the next president? Ummmm .... Because the black candidate in the contest was exceptionally ...