U.S. Presidential Election 2008

[Strangelet]

Originally Posted by Deckard

And what are these "reasonable methods that have not been proven wrong"? What makes you so sure that white guilt or negative prejudice will play anything like the significant role that you suggest for this 20-30%? At least enough for you to come out with a statement like:

awesome questions. Notice he's watered things down for his hypothesis to say nothing more than if people are swayed by irrational prejudices they will act in a prejudiced fashion and affect the outcome of the election. Which is fucking tautological. and doesn't quite get to the place where you can say something as smug as

You give people too much credit if you think they are going to use reason.

and

I am saying that a big factor in his ability to win the election depends on the outcome of white voters sub-consciously or consciously selecting one of those two prejudices more frequently than the other.