Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media (26 page)

QUESTION: Do you believe your state should secede from the United States?

QUESTION: Should Congress make it easier for workers to form and join labor unions?

DKOS REPUBLICAN POLL 2010

The Daily Kos Republican Poll was conducted by Research 2000 from January 20 through January 31, 2010. A total of 2003 self-identified Republicans were interviewed nationally by telephone. Those interviewed were selected by the random variation of the last four digits of telephone numbers, nationally.

The margin for error, according to standards customarily used by statisticians, is no more than plus or minus two percentage points. This means that there is a ninety-five percent probability that the “true” figure would fall within that range if the entire self-identified Republican population were sampled. The margin for error is higher for any demographic subgroup, such as for gender or region.

GEOGRAPHIC BREAKDOWN

Northeast:

DC, ME, VT, NY, MD, PA, CT, DE, MA, NH, RI, WV, NJ

South:

FL, NC, SC, AL, MS, GA, VA, TN, KY, LA, AR, TX

Midwest:

IL, MN, MI, OH, WI, IA, MO, KS, IN, ND, SD, OK, NE

West:

NM, CA, OR, WA, AK, HI, MT, ID, UT, NV, AZ, WY, CO

[
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] The Directors Guild of America reports that just 4 percent of its director membership is black. The Writers Guild of America says that 4.5 percent of members employed as television writers and 3.2 percent of members employed as film writers are black (2007). Paris Barclay, Director-Showrunner of “In Treatment” and co-chair of the DGA's Diversity Task Force, estimates that up to 82 percent of all episodes in television are “directed by Caucasian men.”

[
2
] A version of this essay was first published at
Counterpunch.org
, January 14, 2008.

[
3
] A version of this essay was first published at Counterpunch.org, March 24, 2008.

[
4
] First published in
Black Rennaissance Noire
, Volume 9, Issue 2-3, Fall 2009/Winter 2010.

[
5
] A version of this essay was first published at Counterpunch.org, June 24, 2008.

[
6
] A version of this essay was first published at Counterpunch.org, August 11, 2008.

[
7
] A version of this essay was first published at Counterpunch.org, October 24-26, 2008.

[
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]  
Boogie Man, The Lee Atwater Story
, was shown in thirty-five cities before election day. For more information go to www. boogiemanfilm.com.

[
9
] A version of this essay was first published at
Counterpunch.org
, November 5, 2008.

[
10
] A version of this essay was first published at
Counterpunch.org
, April 7, 2008.

[
11
] This satire was first published at
Counterpunch.org
, on November 2, 2009.

[
12
] A version of this essay was first published at
Counterpunch.org
, July 27, 2009 after Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest by a policeman in front of his house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[
13
] A version of this essay was first published
at Counterpunch.org
, August 6, 2009

[
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] ACORN was found to have broken no laws by a congressional report issued in December 2009.