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Byron York Keeps Digging

By | 05.01.09 | 5:42 pm

Byron York has responded to the criticism of his column on the “white-black divide” of presidential support by (yawn) crying that he’s been accused of racism.

I wrote that citing Obama’s “sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually

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They Punctured My York

By | 04.29.09 | 5:03 pm

A couple more things about that Byron York column. First, the topline argument about President Obama’s popularity is even sillier than it first seems, because the president’s popularity has risen with whites and held even with blacks since the election.

62 percent of whites approve of the job Obama

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Investigative Reporter Byron York Exposes Black Support for Democratic President

By | 04.29.09 | 1:34 pm

Byron York engages in a perennial conservative media stunt — breaking down poll numbers between blacks and whites to make the point that Democrats wouldn’t be so popular if it wasn’t for the 14th Amendment. Or something. I’ve really never figured this out. (Some of the less tactful analysis More…