In the most recent exit polls from Kentucky, 78% of the voters who felt race was an issue in the campaign, voted for Hillary. 1 in 5 Hillary voters also said they based their vote on race. This is alarming for several reasons. First, because the actual numbers are probably much higher, as people don't usually give an honest answer about their own personal prejudices. And two, because we have been led to believe the Democrat party is not racist at all. Supposedly, all of the racists moved to the Republican party years ago, following Civil Rights. So, why are so many Democrats now suddenly expressing their racist views?
Now, perhaps the Republican side would have had the same sort of poll results on a Condi Rice candidacy, but I sincerely doubt it, and I don't think 1 of 5 John McCain supporters would vote based on race. But given this were the case, doesn't it prove that racist views are not isolated to one party? Doesn't it destroy the myth that Democrats are pure as the wind-driven snow when it comes to racial prejudice?
Welcome back Dixie.
Let me begin by saying that I have only read your initial post and am responding to this only, and of course from only my perspective and experience on all of this...
Let's first get out of the way that I am certain there may be some White Democrats that are racist and some Chinese Americans that are racist and some Native born Americans that are racist and some Black Americans that are racist and so on and so forth. Racism is a disease that is bred and can be anywhere and everywhere if it is not stopped in its roots.
First and foremost, let me say that you and your cohorts have done a fine job with bating the Democrats with the race issue. I believe with all of my heart and mind that this "race issue" was an issue put out there by the Republicans, via the Drudge Report and their releases of the Wright tapes and the Farrakan articles and the Obama pics in the African garb on his visit there.....
no one picked up on these articles in the main stream media when they were released early on in January....the republicans on other sites that i was posting on at the time were salivating at the mouth to get this stuff in to the main stream media and not just on Drudge and in their blogs.
None of them could understand why the maine stream media was not hitting on it or making a big deal about it....this was LONG BEFORE before....especially in political time, it hit the mSM....
Then the tapes of J Wright FINALLY HIT THE MSM, and those on the other sites went in to a frenzy, posting one thread after another on this whole thing, and making it about race. It was republicans or conservaqtives that did such....NOT OTHER DEMOCRATS.
HOWEVER, the repubs KNEW what they had, and Mccain was the only dog in their race now so they had nothing to lose, they began the wave and were determined to make it a tidal wave, and determined to make it appear as though it was the Hillary side behind all the racism.... A very good plan of CHAOS....then they starting medeling in our Democratic votes, in oregon, where the press reported that Obama got 20% of previous Republican votes and probably in Kentucky or West Virginia where Clinton got some of the Republican votes...some might be honest supporters of either candidate but many were not imo, at least not initially...i actually think that some of the repubs actually began liking Obama and some of the repub Hillary voters actually began liking Hillary but there were still enough left that were true blue republicans that were stirring the pot of racism...and calling racism at every turn.
Then every single word that came out of the Clinton camp was considered "racist" even if it were not....the Obama camp was on a roll calling racism at every turn, MOST OF THIS REALLY STARTED BY THE Republicans but then bought in to, hook line and sinker, by the younger, inexperienced mostly, Obama supporters.... though I know many adults support him too, but in general, older folks are not as vocal as the younger groups or as easily moved to rip out the hearts of fellow Democrats all for the sake of winning, which honestly is how I have seen many people on this site, who I love as people and this is why I have found it difficult to post here as much, the last few months, for fear of losing their friendships....
Personally, I don't believe for one nano second that the Democratic party members, the true blue ones, are as racists as the media tried to play it....it was making a story instead of telling the story...
I say this because, it turns out that these 30% that said if Obama wins, they will not vote for him and go with mccain if he wins....they are the same people that voted in the democratic primaries in 2000 and in 2004 that said if gore won their primary they would vote for Bush and if Kerry won their Primary then they would hop and vote for Bush....by 37% on the first group and 34% on the 2004 election.
I believe they felt this way because they do not know Obama and from the comment he made in San Franscisco regarding Bitter and guns, and the tapes of Wright in which they interpreted as hating America, and the fact that he is just another harvard grad that they could not relate to, they believe he is an elitist.... (And please don't ask me why they would not think that Hillary is an elitist other than her spending a great deal of time campaigning there and getting that local coverage whereas Obama did not?)
So, to sum* up....Democrats are not as racist as YOU want people to think.
It was a set up by the republicans on race to blame IT ALL on Hillary, though some gafs were on her teams side like Geraldine's etc, of which she was let go, though she still keeps mouthing off...., but a "set up" that i believe some on the Obama side bought in to hook, line and sinker, with a little help from our Republican friends.
Call me naive, but if you all had been a part of the other conservative leaning sites, hearing about all of this Wright stuff long before the MSM, you would probably agree with me....it was a dirty, political ploy, that worked to divide us perfectly....unless we are smart enough to NOT let the Republicans do that to us....
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) trying to bring out the polling from the election in Kentucky, and the only poll that CONCERNS YOU, a Republican, is the poll on the 2 in 10 that said race was a part of their reason....? 
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