I picture Garrett Morris:

"Now, we see here these 'subliminal' images, slowed down"

pics: puppy, old lady, black man with stocking mask and gun, boy scout.

"The negative result shows the inherent, unconscious racism of the viewer."

It would have killed.

This is a "methodology?"

"... smells like... victory." - Robert Duvall

This is a highly suspect poll and any results this poll returns should not be accepted as accurate.

On-line polls are HIGHLY inaccurate, as you can NOT control participation in on-line polls like you can with phone-interview polls or ballot polls. It's far to easy to cheat and purposely affect the results of an on-line poll. Anyone can "rig" an on-line poll by creating multiple log-ins and voting more than once, especially when you access a site through a proxy. That fact alone negates the accuracy of any on-line poll results.

Also, contrary to the claims of the Strib, people are more prone to lie when they are anonymous. A live interview or single ballot poll is more likely to invoke HONEST responses as the responder knows that they can possibly be identified. Most people will answer a question honestly when the think that they can be held responsible for dishonest answers, even when the risk of being discovered as a fraud is very low in responding to a poll. An anonymous responder has no such inherent accountability issue.

Last, but not least, this "affect misattribution" method is HIGHLY suspect, as this is blatant interference of potential behavior through image manipulation. The very selection of "neutral" images is subjective to the person making that selection. It is impossible to determine what image a potential respondent will find as neutral. An image of a black cat, for example, may be consider as scary to some people, cute to others, and neutral to the remainder. How can anyone predict which image will be considered as neutral unless they have background information on the person viewing that image, like if they own cats, have ever been attacked by a black cat, are superstitious, or other relevant factors? You can't. The same is true of an image of a car, a lamp, or any other possible "neutral" image. Any claim that you can determine the neutrality of an image WITHOUT reviewing the background of each respondent is a false claim and should be disregarded.

Obama: My job is above my pay grade

The claim is that if Obama loses, it will be because of racism, and this is a joke.

So what if McCain loses? I should then claim it is because of racism, since about an equal number of whites will vote for Obama and an equal number of whites for McCain, but 95% of blacks plan to vote for Obama.

In otherwords, blacks are bigger racists than whites, at least by percentage of each race, because the statistics prove it.

And by the same token, if McCain loses I could claim it was because of sexism against Palin.

This may or may not actually be true in any of these cases, but this all proves the white racism argument is a bunch of silly campaign BS.

Disclaimer: I do realize that blacks likely feel this is an opportunity for the first time in the history of the USA to have someone that "represents them" in the White House. So I do understand the emotion of it all, and it is not necessarily a racist issue for blacks, but just a matter of pride and a matter that for once they have virtually total respect and it would also prove they have "arrived" more or less.

However, I could also argue that women feel this is an opportunity for the first time in history of the USA to have someone that "represents them" in Washington too, even if only a V.P. (Granted, strongly pro-choice, about 15% of all women, may not feel that way.)  Or for that matter, disabled veterans may feel too, that with McCain, they may have better chances for increased benefits. 

In summary, these issues are not all "black or white" (no pun intended) or "right or wrong" or "best or worse", since this campaign for president/vice president is symbolic of the struggle of minorities, women, veterans and even white males (the most picked on group in America). So there!!!