Will Race Harm Obama?
Lately, I’ve been wondering if Obama will be able to win this election because of his race. In a recent CNN podcast, it said that 3 out of 10 people polled said that they were prejudice. Another poll showed this, 84 percent of Americans say a candidate being black would not effect their vote one way or the other. But, the dirty little secret, what some experts call the 15 percent lie, the 15 percent of white voters who tell pollsters they’d be willing to vote for a black candidate, but in the privacy of the polling place, never, ever actually would. This will really hurt Obama in the Presidential election.
Due to so many people being prejudice, I believe that Obama’s chances of winning this Presidential election are very slim. Especially since this is not the only thing affecting his campaign for President. I would like to know what some of ya’ll think about how race affecting Obama’s Presidential election.