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...Ford's appeal to younger, white professionals that Corker only won his home county, which comprises Chattanooga, where Corker was mayor, by less than 10 points. But Ford did not gain enough crossover votes from the fallout of Republican attack ads many (including Corker) condemned as offensive and racist...
...rope in numerous allegations of racial intolerance, ranging from the credible (he has a peculiar fondness for the Confederacy) to the ridiculous and untrue (he had a dog named "Sambo"). Seeking to assuage concerned voters, Allen held what the campaign called an "ethnic rally." Proving him to be not racist - anymore - just condescending...
...call me" ad, I perhaps gave too much credit to the electorate. Ford had opened a small lead at the time, and I dismissed the pundits who argued that the polls were overestimating the willingness of white voters to endorse a black candidate. The ad's obvious appeal to racist stereotypes won't make a dent, I thought...
...Flushed Away wants to convince you that the threat of tadpoles plaguing London is somehow more horrifying than the actual pestilence of rats every large city suffers from. But it's a fantasy-with attitude. Toad is, if not a racist, a species-ist; after some rats bungle an assignment, he complains, "I should never have had rodents do an amphibian's job." It has fun at the expense of Germans and especially the French, who are portrayed as cowardly and snobbish. ("You find my pain funny?" asks Toad of a French creature called Le Frog, voiced by Jean Reno...
After the event, Helgen said that if some candidates are elected to office using nativist and racist rhetoric, it sets “a very bad precedent and could have detrimental effects on our electoral process and our democracy...