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People like David Duke...
...DUKE, you may remember, is the former Ku Klux Klan "Imperial Wizard" who sparked a national firestorm two years ago when he won a seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives. He "shocked" Americans and received hate mail from the Bush White House and Ronald Reagan for running as a Republican...
...Duke is in a hotly contested race for the Louisiana governorship. And once again, he's not doing badly. Indeed, one August poll conducted for a Duke opponent showed him leading his two major rivals, Democrat-turned-Republican Buddy Roemer, the current governor, and the scandal-plagued Edwin Edwards, a Democrat ousted by Roemer four years...
...while this poll gave him only one-third of the potential votes, Duke's polls usually miss what The Washington Post calls his "hidden vote" a gap which can apparently increase his numbers by as much as 50 percent...
...first this seems unbelievable. Duke is an avowed racist. He talks about white power. He's a neo-Nazi, for God's sake. So how did he persuade 44 percent of Louisiana's voting population (and, according to The Post, 60 percent of the white electorate) to vote for him last year in a failed bid for the U.S. Senate...