http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/1…
Now I post this not to start a Rep vs. Dem debate, but to illustrate how biased a newspaper article can be. Check this thing out.
"Majority of Republicans favors racial profiling at airports, while Dems, indys oppose"
That is the title. Pretty much condemns Republics. Lets look a little closer.
"While most favor profiling in general"
Oh wow, ok, so not just Republicans. Lets keep looking
53% of Republicans support racial profiling
31% of Dems
Now I tried tracking down the actual poll. All I could find was this (this was what was linked to in the article):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/pol…
It says that they randomly call 514 Americans and ask them these questions. +-5% is the sampling error.
Also, no where did I see Rep/Dem/Ind segmented.
Check out this quote from the article :
"This is perhaps not a terribly surprising result. But it's certainly worth noting that with a variety of conservative media figures aggressively pushing racial profiling in recent days, the only people who agree with them are Republicans, while the rest of the country is strongly opposed"
So let me get this straight. The poll has a pretty good size sampling error. They do not go into if these calls were nationwide, focused in certain areas, etc.
"This is perhaps not a terribly surprising result"
I really don't know what is surprising. The numbers are not unquestionable. 1/3 of Dems, 1/2 of Republicans support race as an element of selecting people for search. If you factor in the + or - 5% Republicans and Dems are pretty close in line.
In summary, fuck the Washington Post. Bullshit article, inflammatory and typical, biased reporting.
Discuss
too bad the majority of americans would never even imagine doing some background on an article like Anthony did and will just believe it because its the "WASHINGTON POST" OMG!!. and Anthony vote counts just as much as a regular schmo's...oy...
fair and balanced lol
Why do I have a feeling that the questions posed on the phone weren't structured as, "Are you a Rep/Dem/Ind?" and "Do you support racial profiling?". I bet they ask if you support pulling suspicious looking people, etc. and then construed it as racial profiling.
I also don't mind racial profiling as long as it used in an appropriate manner and only against Jews, blacks, Hispanics, Muslims and anyone else who isn't white...since they present the most danger.
Regards
Yeah, I have been trying to make it a habit that whenever I see a news story I try and find the actual source and look at the raw data. I found this article to be extremely inflammatory and wanted to point it out.
+-5% is pretty significant. I also could not find any point where they actually break it down by political affiliation.
+/- 5% isn't too out of line. For reference, I quickly scanned through some of the last Senate polling from RCP and found that almost all of the polls were +/- 3-4%.
Without crosstabs, it is impossible to say if the Rep/Dem split is statistically significant. But since "Republican" and "Democrat" are relatively large subgroups (as opposed to, say, age/education breakdowns) one wouldn't expect the error to mushroom too much in the crosstabs.
Oh, ok. I thought 5% either way was pretty out of line. Either way the numbers were at the point that 5% either way would make them pretty close to each other. Far from the condemning majority that the article talks about.
What do you think about Racial Profiling in today's light of events? I have read a lot of information about it, it's interesting to hear your thoughts
to date, racial profiling has become very common, which is why it is now a serious struggle
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