speechful:

Essential reading: AP-Yahoo News poll finds “deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close.”

Says “one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them ‘lazy,’ ‘violent’ or responsible for their own troubles.”

Suggests the percentage of voters who may turn away from Obama because of race could “easily be larger than the final difference between the candidates in 2004″  — about 2.5 percentage points.

Al Giordano takes apart this shoddy piece of journalism:

Based on every major preferential piece of data in this poll, Obama wins the November election.

AP’s Fournier chose, instead, to airlift the poll’s responses on racial questions (often in response to extremely inflammatory statements about African-Americans being “lazy,” “violent,” “boastful,” “complaining” or “irresponsible” and with other “push poll” type questions) and made that the story, even though the overall results of the poll disprove his claim and show a general populace ready to elect Obama president.

Why did Fournier commit that act of journalistic atrocity?

Because - as we will examine in a subsequent post - the combination of his well-documented pro-McCain bias and the fact that his own data shows Obama heading toward victory in November, has him proving Nate Silver’s theorem above: ”The amount of time conservatives spend talking about the Bradley Effect is inversely proportional to the fortunes of their candidate.”

Ron Fournier is a biased shill.  There’s a rumor he also likes to fornicate with goats, but that’s yet to be confirmed.