There are 24 hours in a day of which approximately 8 to 12 should be available for productivity. It seems that I always have to fit in twice the amount of things to do during that period. Somehow that is impossible especially for this nonagenarian. To cap the usual chores my 10 year plus old washing machine chose to die Friday so time had to be spent looking for a replacement. Additionally Dawg demands attention, due to a poor night's sleep I fell asleep in the afternoon for about 2 hours and then had four family phone calls so nothing was done until 8 pm.
My computer could not find the sever so I had to shut the modem off, disconnect the power line and replug it before I could check my email. It has become too late to write a blog but I thought that in the climate of this years election campaign this recent Rasmussen report would be interesting. Since this is a freely delivered email I believe that I can reproduce it for this non profit blog, The links may work.
The White House insists that blacks are
better off after President Obama’s eight years in office, but voters
strongly disagree. No wonder Republican nominee Donald Trump is reaching out to
black voters, saying they have “nothing to lose” by supporting him.
Even among black
voters, only 15% say life for young black Americans is better now.
Sixty percent (60%) of all voters think
race relations are worse since Obama’s election in 2008. Just nine
percent (9%) believe race relations are better now.
Perhaps even more
disturbing is that 50% of Americans believe race relations
are getting worse, the highest level of pessimism ever in Rasmussen
Reports surveying, and that was in January, before several high-profile police
shootings and revenge killings of police officers.
By contrast, in January 2009, just before Obama’s
inauguration, 70% of Americans said relations between black and
white Americans were getting better.
As recently as last
September, only 20% of voters said Obama has
brought Americans of different races closer together. Forty-seven
percent (47%) think the president has driven those of different races further
apart instead.
Forty-four percent
(44%) of black voters feel the president has brought us closer together, but
just 16% of whites and 21% of other minority voters agree.
However, 53% of
blacks – and 72% of all voters – believe America is a more divided nation than
it was four years ago.
After eight years of
the first black president, blacks are still much more likely than whites and
other minority voters to believe the economy and the U.S. justice system is
unfair to them.
Blacks strongly
believe they are treated unfairly by the police, but most voters in general think crime
in inner cities is a bigger problem than police discrimination against
minorities.
Seventy-five percent (75%) of black
Americans say this country has not reached the time of equal opportunity that
Martin Luther King, Jr. preached about. That view is shared by 59%
of whites and 56% of other minority adults.
Voters definitely have a low opinion of
politicians who play the so-called “race card,” but the frequency
with which it is used suggests that it’s a successful political tactic. Witness
Hillary Clinton’s attempt this week to tie Trump to the Ku Klux Klan. Only 14%
of voters think most politicians raise racial issues to address real problems.
Three-out-of-four voters (73%) think they’re only raising racial issues to
get elected.
Sixty percent (60%)
think comments critical of the police made by
some politicians make it more dangerous for police officers to do their job.
Just 15% disagree and say it’s more likely that these critical comments
improve the quality of the police’s performance.
But there’s a
noticeable racial difference of opinion here, too. Sixty-six percent (66%) of
whites and 52% of other minority voters believe critical comments about the
police by some politicians make cops’ jobs more dangerous. Among black voters,
just 36% feel that way, although only 24% think those comments improve the
quality of the police’s performance.
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