Best I can say after this is …..”Ya Think?”

One-third of white Democrats harbor negative views of black people, calling them “lazy,” “violent” and responsible for their own troubles, a new poll has found.

Such racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to the AP-Yahoo News poll.

The poll, conducted with Stanford University, suggests the percentage of voters who may turn away from Obama because of his race could easily be larger than the final difference between the candidates in 2004 – about 2.5 percentage points.

The poll found that more than a third of all white Democrats and independent voters, who Obama can’t win the White House without, agreed with at least one negative adjective about blacks.

Given a choice of several positive and negative adjectives that might describe blacks, 20 percent of all whites said the word ‘violent’ strongly applied.

Among other words, 22 percent agreed with “boastful,” 29 percent “complaining,” 13 percent “lazy” and 11 percent “irresponsible.”

When asked about positive adjectives, whites were more likely to stay on the fence than give a strongly positive assessment.

If any of this surprises you, then you do not live in the South.  If this poll had been taken only in the South then I believe the numbers and adjectives would have been greater.  Muych progress has been made in the South, but there is a long way to go.