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Comment Re:Duh. (Score 0) 1601

by sxtxixtxcxh (#25713893) Attached to: Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign
Just from that chart I linked, Carter lost it, 47% to Ford's 52% while winning the presidency.

The last time a Democratic candidate won the majority of the white vote was in Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, though I don't know what the break down was. President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 as well as the Voting Rights Act.

While in the Senate, Johnson helped pass the Eisenhower's Civil Rights Act of 1960 established federal inspections and penalties for voter registration, precursor to LBJ's Voting Rights Act.

In the last 30 years, blacks have voted in the high 80th to low 90th percentile for the Democrats. With Obama outperforming Gore in that demographic by 5%.

In the same time period Obama has also outperformed previous Democrats for the white vote, in fact, Obama is tied for 2nd with Clinton behind Jimmy Carter in white vote percentage.

Implying all blacks voted along racial lines is bullshit, when in reality the racial line fell their way. It's akin to saying whites only voted for white presidents 43 out of 44 times, but whatever, keep your racist agenda up. The fortunate side effect of Obama drawing out all the racists, is at least they're out of the closet and can be summarily ridiculed.

Compared to Gore (because he was the last democrat to win the popular vote) in 2000, Obama won 5% more blacks, and 5% more hispanics, 8% more asians, and 1% more whites. Tell me again who's voting along the race line?

Comment Re:Duh. (Score 0) 1601

by sxtxixtxcxh (#25709889) Attached to: Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign
In 2000, Gore had 42% to Bush's 56% of white voters (and if you recall, Gore won the popular vote).
In 1996, Clinton won with 42% to Dole's 46% of the white vote.
In 1992, Clinton won with 39% to Bush's 40% (and Perot's 20%) of the white vote.

What I'm saying here is that the media isn't reporting something that isn't newsworthy. The Democrats have lost the white vote since at least 1972.

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Researchers analyzing the viewing patterns of men and women looking at sexual photographs were surprised to find that men are more likely than women to first look at a woman's face before other parts of the body, and women focused longer on photographs of men performing sexual acts with women than did the males. These types of results could play a key role in helping researchers to understand human sexual desires and its ultimate effect on public health.
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Vending Machine For Books Coming Next Year 214

Posted by Zonk from the i've-heard-of-worse-ideas dept.
An anonymous reader writes "CNN writes about a $50,000 machine that can print books on demand. It can print up to 550 pages and put a binding on the book in seven minutes. It will be debuting in a select number of U.S. libraries in 2007. The machine is the 'output' end of a service called On Demand Books, which is also just debuting. From the article: 'Some 2.5 million books are now available - about one million in English and no longer under copyright protection. On Demand accesses the volumes through Google and the Open Content Alliance, among other sources. [Co-founder Dane] Neller predicts that within about five years On Demand Books will be able to reproduce every volume ever printed.'"

Symantec AntiVirus Hole Found 241

Posted by CowboyNeal from the safer-than-sorry dept.
Hotwater Mountain writes "eWeek has a story about a gaping security flaw in the latest versions of Symantec's anti-virus software suite that could put millions of users at risk of a debilitating worm attack. According to eEye Digital Security, the company that discovered the flaw, the vulnerability could be exploited by remote hackers to take complete control of the target machine 'without any user action.'"

Thinking About Desktop Eyecandy 338

Posted by CmdrTaco from the almost-entirely-a-glorious-waste dept.
An anonymous reader writes "This article ponders over whether excess eye candy and special effects being incorporated on the desktop is a good trend after all? The author explains why he thinks the users are taken for a ride by the OS companies in compelling them to upgrade their hardware in order to enable these processor intensive and memory hungry special effects."

Former Hacker Irks Microsoft in EU Dispute 204

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the one-man-headache dept.
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "The Wall Street Journal profiles Neil Barrett, 'a former computer hacker who once infiltrated the system controlling a telescope at a Hawaii laboratory' and is now an expert witness causing problems for Microsoft in its antitrust battle with the European Union. Barrett 'has helped put the British glam rocker Gary Glitter behind bars for pedophilia. And he also has helped prosecute a teenage hacker from Wales, who claimed to have stolen Bill Gates' credit-card number and sent the Microsoft founder a shipment of Viagra. [...] In the corporate world, Mr. Barrett once met a challenge to hack into a large multinational company's system in four days to win a security assignment. He stole the company's undisclosed new logo as a trophy, he wrote.'"

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