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Guest post by: Mars!
Race May Play Significant Role in Presidential Election, Survey Finds
Voters’ Racial Attitudes Can Influence Candidate Preference, Sometimes Unconsciously
Newswise — ORLANDO, Fla. — Voters’ racial attitudes, both conscious and unconscious, may be a significant factor in this year’s U.S. presidential election, particularly since whites tend to prefer people of their own race, according to research presented at the 120th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.
“People may not even be aware that they have certain racial attitudes and that could be why, even with an African-American president in the White House for nearly four years, race continues to play a role in electoral politics,” Anthony G. Greenwald, PhD, said in an interview. Greenwald was lead researcher on a Anthony G. Greenwald, PhD, survey of 15,000 voters.
The survey asked respondents about their political beliefs, how “warmly” they felt toward black and white people, and which presidential contender they preferred. The survey was done between January and April 2012, while the Republican hopefuls included Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. The research team also measured unconscious racial attitudes using the Implicit Association Test (IAT), which Greenwald developed more than a decade ago to measure thoughts and biases that people don’t realize they have. Variations of the test measure implicit attitudes about topics such as race, gender, sexuality and ethnicity.
The IAT results showed a pattern labeled “automatic white preference” among a majority of eligible white voters. The finding that some candidates are more attractive to voters with pro-white racial attitudes does not mean that those candidates are racist, Greenwald emphasized.
Read More at: http://www.newswise.com/articles/race-may-play-significant-role-in-presidential-election-survey-finds
It has begun, we all knew the racism charges would be going forward hard and heavy. This one bears the “official” endorsement of the American Psychological Association. For those who don’t know any better, that sounds really heavy and medical. Actually it’s a load of BS. What isn’t explained in this article is how the massive number of white voters that voted for Obama the first time around, suddenly have become racists this time around. Also, if you read the article you will notice, they have marginalized Black racism down to a single sentence. This just continues the long run of agenda ridden articles from this organization in recent years. Recent hits from them include, claiming that religious thought is a mental illness, that Conservatives are mentally deficient, and their overwhelming support of Obamacare and gay marriage.
The fact is, the layman believes the APA is the voice of the psychology profession in this country and that what they say is fact. It must be known that the APA is an agenda driven organization run by liberals, identical in every way to nearly every other social science. It would be nice if more people in that area would speak out against the APA’s liberalism, but much like journalism Psych draws mostly people from the left. It’s not exactly a conspiracy, but it is group think and it is dangrous.
-Mars
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