Welcome to your Friday open thread. I had a good time at Ignite Wilmington last night. It was great meetin Rob Tornoe and reader Joe Cass. Afterwards I met XStryker and Mrs. XStryker for dinner at Orillas. Great time but I’m a bit bleary-eyed this morning.
I guess Mississippi still has some race issues to deal with.
In a PPP poll released Thursday, a 46% plurality of registered Republican voters said they thought interracial marriage was not just wrong, but that it should be illegal. 40% said interracial marriage should be legal.
Gov. Haley Barbour, with a home state advantage in Mississippi, also topped PPP’s survey of the GOP primary field at 37%, followed by Mike Huckabee at 19%, and Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich at 10%.
The poll also found that voters who thought interracial marriage should be banned liked Barbour, Palin, and Huckabee the most among the slate of potential GOP presidential candidates. Seventy-nine percent of those voters said they approved of Gov. Barbour’s job performance, while 74% said they had a favorable opinion of Sarah Palin, and 73% viewed Huckabee favorably.
WTF? Almost half of Mississippi Republicans think interracial marriage should be illegal. That blows my mind. I guess it’s just more of that small government conservatism I hear so much about.