!!!THE REAL REASON! Obama Is ACTUALLY Disliked!!! ITS NOT RACISM!!!

I would like to offer some statistics, that hopefully will give a little perspective to the coming 2012 Presidential Election. I had a theory pop into my head this morning, and once I looked up the data behind it, I was amazed at the outcome.

Back during '07, when the campaigning for '08 was in full swing, it was an extremely difficult time for anyone opposed to Obama as President.

I know this, because I watched and felt it first hand. Most of what any of us discovered about him was never brought to light in the Media. And if any was... It was immediately silenced by the accusations of racism. This is why the Birther debate continued, why the Muslim debate continued, why all of the debates concerning his history continued.

Most of these issues were never publicly discussed, or fully explained prior to the election. Even those that were eventually put to rest, could have been silenced even sooner, if there had actually been some openess in the conversation. And more openess from Obama himself.

Claims continue, that racial motivations are behind these attacks, or any negativity directed at the Pres. And I can only imagine what It will be like once campaigning for this election year really gears up.

As I stated above I would like to address the claim that Obama is one of the most attacked Presidents in history, and why this might be, with some statistics that some might not be familiar.

I had a theory that the increases in attacks, may be due to an increased number of American's having access to the net, and being able to do their own research on the candidates, and here is what I found...

1992 - Clinton/George H Bush/Perot
2% - Of American Households Had Internet

1996 - Clinton/Dole/Perot
26%

2000 - George W. Bush/Gore/Nader
44%

2004 - George W. Bush/Kerry
68%

2008 - Obama/McCain
72%

If you notice prior to 2004, there was such a small percentage of Americans who were actually connected to the net. So you can imagine, at that time, any information that the Majority of American's received about the candidates, was fed to them by the media.

It wasn't until 2004, that the percentages broke 50%, so there were alot of new net users out there. How many of those do you think had gotten over the shock and awe of email, net porn, chatrooms, and rotten.com, to actually use the net for research? Sure there were us conspiracy nuts, but we were few and far between, especially back then! And I'm not sure about you, but I skewered the hell out of Bush!

So please step back this coming election year... And rethink labeling anyone opposed to Obama, as a racist. It might be that we are just more informed then we were in the past.

To go from only 2% in the Clinton Era! To the almost 75% in Obama Era! I had the theory, but to actually see those numbers amazed me!
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The links to the statistical data used is here: if there was no Data for the actual election yr. I used the data from the closest yr. following. As to not skew the results in favor of my theory.


[link to www.nsf.gov]

[link to www.internetworldstats.com]

Last Edited by ~Elizabeth~ on 06/27/2012 06:16 PM