In what will come as small surprise to anyone reading the comment threads on anti-racist sites or wondering why Barack Obama is having so much trouble with white, working class Democratic voters, a breakthrough Associated Press-Yahoo study says that "one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks-many calling them "lazy," "violent" or responsible for their own troubles."
And this is why it matters right now:
"The poll, conducted with Stanford University, suggests that the percentage of voters who may turn away from Obama because of his race could easily be larger …