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In politics, perception is king
QandO — ... of attack are risky, and even lecture candidates about the "low road". But it is the voter who gets the final say about campaign tactics, strategy and messages. As much as they hate to admit it, Democrats should understand that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth’s campaign against John Kerry didn’t succeed because it was mean, nasty and untrue. It succeeded because more people believed them than John Kerry. That’s why it is interesting to consider the latest Rasmussen poll: Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the nation’s voters ...

Who played the race card? Rasmussen finds that Obama did
RedState: Conservative News and Community — "Dollar bill" line about race, while Brittany ad not Rasmussen actually asked people: As for Obama’s comment, 53% of white voters saw it as racist, as did 44% of African-Americans and 61% of all other voters. So who was racist? Unaffiliated voters, by a five-to-one margin, said the McCain ad was not racist. By a much narrower 50% to 38% margin, unaffiliateds viewed Obama’s comment as racist. Perhaps the press and the lunatic lefty bloggers will stop now. They are knifing their ...

Majority Says Obama Comments Racist
JammieWearingFool — Uh oh. Just as we've suspected. Mr. Post-Racial Candidate is now viewed as a racist. Would you, uhhhh, like to have those remarks back now? Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the nation’s voters say they’ve seen news coverage of the McCain campaign commercial that includes images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and suggests that Barack Obama is a celebrity just like them. Of those, just 22% say the ad was racist while 63% say it was not . However, Obama’s comment that his Republican opponent will try to scare people because Obama does not look like all the other presidents on dollar bills was seen as racist by 53%. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree . Both campaigns expressed a desire to move beyond the recent flap. On Saturday Obama backed off the racism charge ...

Obama's 'Dollar Bill' Comments Backfire
Little Green Footballs — Barack Obama may have underestimated the American public when he tried to manipulate them with race-baiting comments about his skin color. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the nation’s voters say they’ve seen news coverage of the McCain campaign commercial that includes images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and suggests that Barack Obama is a celebrity just like them. Of those, just 22% say the ad was racist while 63% say it was not. However, Obama’s comment that his Republican opponent will try to scare people because Obama does not look like all the other presidents on dollar bills was seen as racist by 53%. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree. Both campaigns expressed a desire to move beyond the recent ...

MSNBC, CNN say Britney ad racis, but American people do not
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... This morning pollster Scott Rasmussen provides for us a snapshot of regular peoples’ views on the controversy. And it isn’t at all in line with the elite media’s view. According to Rasmussen: ...

McCain Trumps Obama Race Card Play
Riehl World View — ... Unfortunately for Obama, according to Rasmussen's latest, the American people aren't buying it. If, as Kurtz details, Obama depended on race as a pivotal theme during his time in Chicago, he may find himself scrambling for effective campaign tactics that help and don't hurt him with the majority of Americans down the stretch. ...

Simple Questions For Stupid Pollsters
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Jesse Taylor Why would you even ask if a black guy saying he’s black is racist?

Poll: Obama Is Racist, McCain Isn’t
Say Anything — ... The public thinks Obama smeared his political critics with his “dollar bill” comments, and they don’t think McCain is being racist. ...

Pole Axed
Talking Points Memo — ... Disquieting Rasmussen numbers this morning--McCain's crying racism worked. 53% of Americans, including the same % of whites and half of all Democrats, thing that Obama's "dollar bill" remark was "racist." Only 22% think the Paris Hilton ad was racist--most of those being black people, of course (only 18% of white people took this view). ...

The Press Tells Us What to Think, But Who's Buying It?
Power Line — ... have been made that the ad was racist. Needless to say, the Times defends Obama's "dollar bills" line, which was the first injection of race into the campaign, on the risible ground that he was merely "the victim" of a "racial attack." In the Times' world, you simply cannot criticize an African-American candidate, or you are a racist. Unless, of course, the African-American is a Republican. It doesn't seem, though, that this sort of media instruction has had much effect. Today's Rasmussen Reports contains these interesting findings: Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the nation’s ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... than Democrats at besmirching character is that they spend inordinate amounts of time perfecting the ability to walk right up to the line separating "acceptable" and "unacceptable" discourse and getting as close as possible to "unacceptable" without (because they've also mastered deniability) going over that line. Democrats still don't have any idea how that works, and when they try to return fire, as often as not they are perceived as having crossed the line. And here we go again: Only 22% Say McCain Ad Racist, But Over Half (53%) See Obama ...

David Gergen: McCain’s “Moses” ad is code for calling Obama “uppity”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... and certainly one McCain would also hold if he was facing Hillary, but because he’s facing Obama McCain’s no longer allowed to talk about it . Presumably he should be responding to questions on the subject with a terse “no comment” lest halfwits like this whip out their secret racial decoder rings to tell America what he “really” meant. That’s okay. The more ridiculous the left’s demagoguery becomes, the more credibility they lose with voters. See, e.g., the new Rasmussen poll on McCain’s Britney ad . Not only did a vast majority see nothing racist about it (Democrats ...

Hussein’s Dog-Eared Race Card Not Winning The Game For Him
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Only 22% Say McCain Ad Racist, But Over Half (53%) See Obama Dollar-bill Comment That Way (Rasmussen) Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the nation’s voters say they’ve seen news coverage of the McCain campaign commercial that includes images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and suggests that Barack Obama is a celebrity just like them. Of those, just 22% say the ad was racist while 63% say it was not. However, Obama’s comment that his Republican opponent will try to scare people because Obama does not look like all the other presidents on dollar ...

Rasmussen Poll: More Voters Think Obama Played Race Card Than McCain In Recent Political Mini-Firestorms
The Moderate Voice — A new poll says that when voters are asked about who has played the race card in the recently, highly-publicized flaps involving charges by the camps of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain, more voters think the Democratic presumptive party nominee pulled the card out of the deck. Rasmussen Reports has the poll: Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the nation’s voters say they’ve seen news coverage of the McCain campaign commercial that includes images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and suggests that Barack Obama is a celebrity ...

Video: Graham rips Obama apologists for denying that he was trying to inject race
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... . Ah well. Too late now anyway. The racial debate comes in the first eight minutes; it’s worth watching, but if you can’t spare the time, ...

Are McCain Attacks Failing?
Open Left - Front Page — ... about the way the McCain campaign is throwing around racial charged imagery and then blaming Obama for racism.  She quotes Rasmussen. ...

Deracialization and Barack Obama
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... While the historically-inclined might have criticized his remark for lumping Alexander Hamilton in with the motley crew of ex-presidents represented among the now-circulating bills, many voters seem to be more concerned that the comment is racist. As ...

Useless Poll of the Day
JammieWearingFool — With virtually every national poll of registered voters now showing the presidential contest in a dead heat, the Washington Post today releases perhaps the most meaningless poll this election cycle. Democrat Barack Obama holds a two-to-one lead over Republican John McCain among low-wage workers but many are uncommitted to either presidential candidate, to according to a new poll by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University. Obama's advantage is due largely to overwhelming support from African Americans and Hispanics, but even among white voters, the Illinois senator leads McCain 47 percent to 37 percent, The Washington Post reported in Monday editions. The poll found that one in six white workers polled remains ...

Majority See Obama's Dollar Bills Comments As Racist
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Rasmussen Reports found a majority of voters (53%), see Obama's comments that he does not look like all the other presidents on dollar bills as racist. ...

Spot the Republican
Daily Kos — ... . And yet, somehow, while refusing to mention this basic fact the traditional media has helped to convince half of the country that Obama was being racist simply by referring in passing to McCain's obnoxious ad. ...

Obama camp is learning you can only fool some of the people…
neo-neocon — …some of the time.

Racism silliness
Betsy's Page — ... to make a joke using Paris Hilton. Apparently, it's not racist to juxtapose Paris Hilton with Barack Obama when he does it, but not when John McCain does. It's absolutely ridiculous claim to say that the ad is racist. You might find it insulting or silly, but it's not racist. By leaping to that argument, Obama supporters have diluted the criticism of the ad and made themselves seem even more ridiculous and humor-challenged. Perhaps that is why only 22% of the public who had seen the ad thought it was racist compared to the 63% who didn't. The Obama campaign needs to put out ...

Video: Stewart skewers the left’s paranoia over McCain’s ads
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... . Such is the backlash against the paranoia, in fact (with as many Democrats detecting no racism in McCain’s ads as those who did, despite having every partisan incentive to do so), that I’m tempted to think maybe we’ve reached some sort of turning point on bad-faith accusations. I don’t quite buy it — it’s simply ...

Alarums and excursions
The Sideshow — ... Rassmussen polling makes it pretty clear that McCain hit paydirt - and Obama got an own goal - with the criticism of The Britiney-Paris Hilton ad: "Not surprisingly, the McCain ad generates significantly different perceptions along racial and ethnic lines. Most African-American voters-58%--saw the McCain ad as racist. Just 18% of white voters and 14% of all other voters shared that view. [...] As for Obama's comment, 53% of white voters saw it as racist, as did 44% of African-Americans and 61% of all other voters." What's most interesting there, and ...

Rasmussen gets the presidential "race" story wrong
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... The latest Rasmussen Poll really missed its mark. They were trying to get to the bottom of the recent argument between the Republican and Democratic nominees' assertions that each is responsible for injecting race into the presidential debate. ...

Obama Insults the Dignity of Special-Needs Americans
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... (4) For a couple of decades now, white Americans have been taught that there are no slips of the tongue - anything I say or do that can be remotely construed by professionally offended chowderheads like Al Sharpton to be racist - makes me a racist. We’ve learned to be careful about everything that passes our lips. A John McCain campaign ad that was astonishing in its lack of racism was widely reviled as racist by Democrats and the press. Indeed, 58% of American blacks said it was racist. Yes, that would be this ad. See if you can find the racist part. ...