Racist Super Bowl Ad Backfires Gives Democrats Double Digit Lead In Michigan

[proud2BlibKansan]

Remember Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra’s racist, xenophobic, and all around offensive Super Bowl ad? Voters in Michigan do, and Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow now has a double digit lead.

A new PPP poll of the Michigan U.S. Senate race has found that incumbent Democrat Debbie Stabenow leads her likely Republican opponent in the fall, former Rep. Pete Hoekstra 51%-37%. Not surprisingly, running a racist ad full of Asian stereotypes has hurt the likely Republican nominee with voters.

Fifty four percent of voters said that they were familiar with the ad. Forty five percent of them said that the ad made them less likely to vote for Hoekstra, thirty seven percent said that it didn’t matter, and 16% said that the ad made them more likely to vote for Hoekstra.

Interestingly, the number of people who said the ad made them more likely to vote for Hoekstra (16%) is almost identical to the number of respondents who identified themselves as very conservative (17%). Tell me again why very conservative Americans don’t appear to have a predisposition towards racism in today’s political environment?

more . . .http://www.politicususa.com/en/hoekstra-racist-ad-poll

[ellisonz]

1. Gotta wonder about that 16%...

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

3. I don't

They are what they are......teabagging racist slugs.

[TheWraith]

4. Why?

Cheney had an approval rating of what, 19%? There's some people who'd back anything.

[ellisonz]

5. My point exactly.

There is an issue of psychology to this, an inability to empathize with bigotry against others. What portion of our population is psychologically inclined to bigotry and why do they continue to have such outsized influence.

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. Kick for Senator Stabenow!

[Scurrilous]

6. K & R

[monmouth]

7. No wonder Boner & Boys are telling the baggers to tone it down..n/t