Presidential Polls in West Virginia
In June, the Rasmussen Reports Presidential Poll in West Virginia showed that 45% of the 500 likely voters polled by telephone were in favor of John McCain becoming the next president of the United States, while Barack Obama trailed with 37%. The August poll on electoral-vote.com showed Senator McCain still leading by an 8% margin.
According to msnbc.com, exit polls showed that West Virginia is the most racially non-diverse state in the union. 95% of the voters in West Virginia are white, with 89% of the voting population making less than $100, 000 a year. In West Virginia 42% of the voters that were polled had no education beyond high school. While 78% of the of the voters in West Virginia consider themselves as Democrats, an astounding 22% admitted to race being a factor in the upcoming presidential election.
West Virginia is a state with an estimated population of 1,812,035, and of that, less than four percent are African Americans.
On May 14, during the democratic primaries, The Daily Show with John Stewart interviewed some of the West Virginia voters. One mu-mu clad resident of the state was vehement about her opinion on "this Hussein thing," while another slightly better dressed, (but with no more vocal eloquence), woman admitted to being afraid of "that other race."
It stands to reason that a candidate who stresses the importance of education in the United States, and has a clearly outlined plan to reduce the cost of college should lose in a state where 71% of the voters polled do not have a college degree.
Barack Obama stresses the need for change, but as a current, (albeit ashamed), resident of West Virginia, things here simply just do not change. It appears that every single time that a camera is stuck in the face of a native West Virginian, ignorance spews forth. With a median income of $38,029, 48th in the the United States, the residents of West Virginia hold tight to an archaic belief system concerning racial diversity.
Journalist Mathew Palevsky recently interviewed some local voters about their individual choices in the Presidential Polls. The video, now being shown on YouTube, is disturbing at best. From the woman that states that Barack Obama is a Muslim and not from the United States, to the democratic voters threatening to vote for John McCain over Senator Barack Obama, strictly on the basis of race, it is as if the collective population of West Virginia residents had never heard of the Civil Rights Movement.
If the uneducated masses from the poorest, whitest state in the Union are voting for Senator John McCain in the Presidential Polls, that should send a valuable lesson to the rest of the country.
Published by Dallas Bolen
I am happily married, and living in WV with my husband and two dogs. My career has spanned many areas of healthcare. I have many interests, the most important being ongoing educational endeavors. View profile
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5 Comments
Post a CommentReally, someone can do better. Challenge to the planet: defend McCain! I dare you.
Interesting comments from Nancy, it does seem the media brands people into how they are supposed to vote at times.
Nancy could you please defend your position that "McCain is the better candidate"? Fact is that I dunno who I'm gonna vote for. I know I'm one of the most racist, atheist, muslim kickin', shot gun totin', uneducated, child abortin', knuckle draggin, honky red necks what ever set foot in a voting booth. But left to my own senses about what fuel costs for my pickup, what my illigitimate children's GED's and 13th grade certificates are going to cost me, knowing that 80% of the population is against a war on "terror" and that the 20% that aren't against it are getting rich off of it, knowing that in the interests of honesty and truthfulness I could not reasonably concede a debate of whether my Social Security dollars were better spent at something like a billion dollars an acre to shift a sand dune because Alquida might have been there or whether it should have been spent to buy my parent's medicine and children's health care.... Could you tell me at least how your family has done so well
It is good to know that there are people in this state that are voting for the right reasons. The racism statistics were from http://www.msnbc.com/id/21226014 . I am simply pointing ignorance of the views expressed there, as well as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq4MDQOcDI and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwZ--jw_YIE.
It is obvious to those of us who are voting in WV that the media, including this article is trying to guilt voters into thinking that you have to be a racist, uneducated person to vote for McCain, and unfortunately the information that you have gathered as biased as it may seem it very untrue. I for one am a black Christian mother of two sons. For who it may concern we are all three going to vote for McCain, Not because he is not black but because he is the better candidate. I get so sick and tired of the white media telling us what we are suppose to think. I do not even think that you realize that you contribute to the ignorant kind of thinking. I did not raise my children to accept your nonsense. Trying to keep us down is Insulting. Is that OK? NO How in the world is any child black or white suppose to grow up and see no color if the very people who supposedly keep the world informed are so ignorant that they use this tactic to guilt voters who do not want to be