{"id":5247,"date":"2005-09-13T13:28:57","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T17:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5247"},"modified":"2005-09-13T13:28:57","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T17:28:57","slug":"nearly-one-in-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/nearly-one-in-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly one-in-three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Froomkin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/blog\/2005\/09\/13\/BL2005091300884_pf.html\">raised a point<\/a> today that should be a striking wake-up call to the entire Bush gang: a significant percentage of the public seems to believe the president is willing to leave African Americans behind.<\/p>\n<p>Froomkin pointed to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/09\/12\/katrina.race.poll\/index.html\">Gallup poll<\/a> that asked respondents whether they believe Bush does, or does not, &#8220;care about black people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among blacks, 21 percent say he does and 72 percent say he doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Among whites, 67 percent say he does and 26 percent say he doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 62 percent say he does and 31 percent say he doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, that&#8217;s a pretty dramatic rift. But consider the absolute numbers: Three out of four blacks, one out of four whites, and one out of three people across the country regardless of race actually believe that President Bush doesn&#8217;t care about black people.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, but the question: &#8220;Does the president of the United State care about black people&#8221; should be a no-brainer. <i>Of course he does<\/i> should be the overwhelmingly common answer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course it should, and yet, it isn&#8217;t. Nearly one-in-three Americans &#8212; even one-in-four white people &#8212; believe that the president simply can&#8217;t be bothered to consider the welfare of African Americans. <\/p>\n<p>In effect, all of these people are questioning the character of the president. Forget job performance; those who believe Bush doesn&#8217;t care about black people are saying, in no uncertain terms, that the president is a racist who is unconcerned with <a href=\"http:\/\/quickfacts.census.gov\/qfd\/states\/00000.html\">12% <\/a>of the population.<\/p>\n<p>If the poll is accurate, this is stunning. Froomkin&#8217;s wrap-up question needs an answer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s a question for Washington&#8217;s punditocracy: What percentage of people believing that the president doesn&#8217;t care about black people should be considered alarming?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Froomkin raised a point today that should be a striking wake-up call to the entire Bush gang: a significant percentage of the public seems to believe the president is willing to leave African Americans behind. Froomkin pointed to a Gallup poll that asked respondents whether they believe Bush does, or does not, &#8220;care about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}