AP Making Excuses for Obama’s Losing the WH?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks …

I know, I know… I”ve just broken my own rule about using AP as a source for BitsBlog. But in my defense I will say the purpose is to explain one reason WHY AP is no longer a valid source, here.

How many months has it been that they’ve been pushing this meme of ‘If you’re not for Obama, you’re a racist’?

But now, wait a second. Who is this we’re talking about, here? We’re talking about DEMOCRATS. So, now we’re to understand that the reason Obama is in trouble is DEMOCRATS are racist? How can THAT be? I thought Democrats by their very nature harbored no racism.

Dan Riehl notes the same story:

Here’s a thought – were Obama conservative to Right-leaning, I’d vote for a guy like that in a minute and I suspect many other Right-siders would, too. In my opinion, were a Colin Powell or a Condaleezza Rice slightly more to the Right and able to appeal to values voters, they’d have strong backing from Right-side voters throughout much of the land, despite some existing stereotypes propagated by the media.

Unlike Obama, they’ve actually accomplished something relatively significant in their lives through hard work and not just talked a good game to get ahead.

Joyner at OTB agrees saying:

Yes, Obama will lose some votes because of racism.  Yes, McCain will lose some votes because of concerns about his age.  In a truly close election, that could amount to the difference.  But saying that they therefore lost “because” of that one factor — when dozens of factors were more important in deciding the election — is absurd.

And, indeed, if one keeps reading, we find:

Race is not the biggest factor driving Democrats and independents away from Obama. Doubts about his competency loom even larger, the poll indicates. More than a quarter of all Democrats expressed doubt that Obama can bring about the change they want, and they are likely to vote against him because of that.  Three in 10 of those Democrats who don’t trust Obama’s change-making credentials say they plan to vote for McCain.

That’s Obama-specific.

And so it is. Think, folks… We’re talking about the Democrat party… the party of post-racialism. How can they possibly have so many racists as to affect the outcome of this election?  The fact is, they don’t.

The media and the left (but I repeat myself) has been pushing this meme of ‘the reason Obama’s losing is because of racism’ for some months now.  Until now, though, the charge has been focused on independents and Republicans. Now, they’re willing to blame Democrats. Why the change?

Simple… the leftists see Obama struggling, where if all the Democrats were behind him, no such struggle would occur, based on overall party numbers. Add about half the independents and there’d be an Obama rout.  The Democrats can’t fathom, cannot accept, that Obama would be defeated on issues, or his questions about his  competency, so they hunt around and find a reason that matches with what they CAN accept… their long chanted mantra of ‘racism’.  So desperate are they to attach this meme to Obama’s impending loss that they’re willing to tar their fellow leftists with the title of ‘racist’.

If nothing else, it’s an attempt at swaying voters with guilt. But in my view they’re also becoming increasingly aware Obama will lose this election… and they want something in the public discourse that wll explain it without running afoul of their leftist sensibilities.