{"id":1399853,"date":"2022-03-25T07:44:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T11:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399853"},"modified":"2022-03-25T07:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T11:44:50","slug":"huge-majority-of-americans-oppose-using-race-as-a-factor-in-college-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huge-majority-of-americans-oppose-using-race-as-a-factor-in-college-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Majority of Americans Oppose Using Race as a Factor in College Admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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<!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grinnell.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/docs\/2022-03\/FOR%20THE%20WEBSITE%20with%20branding%20v2%20Selzer%20Co%20GCNP%202249%20Methodology%20Document%203-21-2022.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">latest data set<\/a> comes from pollster Anne Selzer&#8217;s outfit, in partnership with Grinnell College. \u00a0Seltzer is viewed as the gold standard in Iowa political polling, but she also conducts nationwide surveys. \u00a0Her latest findings are grim for Democrats on several fronts. \u00a0Her top line result <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HotlineJosh\/status\/1506676547616493568\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">elicits a &#8216;yikes&#8217;<\/a> from <em>National Journal<\/em> analyst Josh Kraushaar, and for good reason:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Yikes: New Ann Selzer *national* poll finds Biden approval dipping down to 34%, with 52% disapproving. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i3MYm5SAQn\">https:\/\/t.co\/i3MYm5SAQn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HotlineJosh\/status\/1506676547616493568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Barely more than a third of respondents approve of the job President Biden is doing, with a majority disapproving. \u00a0He&#8217;s underwater by 18 points. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grinnell.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/docs\/2022-03\/FOR%20THE%20WEBSITE%20with%20branding%20v2%20Selzer%20Co%20GCNP%202249%20Methodology%20Document%203-21-2022.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">On issues<\/a>, Biden is slightly right side-up on handling COVID, which has faded as a top concern, but is upside-down on the Ukraine crisis (-11) and sputtering on the economy (<strong>-26<\/strong>). \u00a0By a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HotlineJosh\/status\/1506676659231023107\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">40-point margin<\/a>, Americans in this survey say the country is on the wrong track (24\/64). \u00a0Buried within the numbers is this interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HotlineJosh\/status\/1506677426629353485\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">question and response<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Paging <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsraNomani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AsraNomani<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In order to expand access to college for racial minorities, do you think a university should be allowed to take a person\u2019s race into account when deciding whether to admit that person as a student?<\/p>\n<p>Should be allowed: 27%<br \/>Should not be allowed: 68%<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HotlineJosh\/status\/1506677426629353485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By more than 40 percentage points, Americans believe race and skin color should not be permitted to be used as a factor in college and university admissions. \u00a0As I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guypbenson\/status\/1506764279655112713\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">noted on Twitter<\/a>, looking at the cross-tabs, there was no gap between white and non-white respondents on this question. \u00a0White respondents are against using race in the admissions process (26\/69); non-whites&#8217; answers were virtually identical, at (29\/68) opposition. \u00a0This outcome is not isolated, either. \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2019\/02\/26\/new-polls-expose-democrats-fringe-extremism-on-abortion-affirmative-action-n2542170\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">We wrote about<\/a> a Pew survey in 2019 that asked almost the exact same question. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/?post_type=fact-tank&#038;p=311479\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The result<\/a>? \u00a0&#8220;73% of Americans say colleges and universities should not consider race or ethnicity when making decisions about student admissions,&#8221; versus 26 percent who said it should be considered. \u00a0Super-majorities of Black and Hispanic respondents agreed with this consensus stance. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guypbenson\/status\/1100141626230562816\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Flashback<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Roughly three-quarters of Americans say universities should NOT consider the race\/ethnicity of applicants in the admissions process.<\/p>\n<p>This colorblind consensus includes super-majorities of blacks (62%) and Hispanics (65%): <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6FRy8G81Iv\">pic.twitter.com\/6FRy8G81Iv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guypbenson\/status\/1100141626230562816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the hardcore identity-fixated Left, the use of race in college admissions isn&#8217;t even on the radar as controversial. \u00a0It&#8217;s a given. \u00a0A must. \u00a0The bare minimum. \u00a0Their immediate goals are much farther afield at this stage, from supporting toxic racial indoctrination in K-12 schools (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Heminator\/status\/1506653540655247368\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">and yes<\/a>, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2022\/03\/15\/surprise-oregon-officials-consider-requiring-crt-instruction-for-kindergarteners-n2604561\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">happening<\/a>), to banishing &#8216;problematic&#8217; historical figures, including even Jefferson and Lincoln. \u00a0The country is not with them. \u00a0The &#8216;affirmative action&#8217; rejection numbers above illustrate how <em>deeply<\/em> out of touch the Woke Left is on race. \u00a0This <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoahPollak\/status\/1506722571487698952\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">anecdote playing out<\/a> in limousine liberal land is notable:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Brentwood school has actually been quite candid over the last few years about becoming hyper-woke. Many of the white liberals who kept paying tuition enjoyed the woke revolution right until it came for them. Sorry, no sympathy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EM5M6EjkQz\">https:\/\/t.co\/EM5M6EjkQz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoahPollak\/status\/1506722571487698952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When it comes to Biden&#8217;s popularity, a new Emerson poll is less terrible for the president than the Grinnell\/Selzer numbers mentioned above, but among the critical demographic of <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/ed-morrissey\/2022\/03\/22\/powell-and-the-polls-bidenflation-is-real-its-spectacularly-bad-and-may-last-three-years-n457076\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">political independents<\/a>, the president remains in big trouble:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Spencer Kimball, Executive Director of the Emerson College Poll said, \u201cBiden struggles among Independent voters: <strong>just 28% approve of the job he is doing while 64% disapprove.<\/strong> When looking at the Midterm generic congressional ballot, Independents break 28% for Democrats, 42% with Republicans, and 31% are undecided.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And the economic and political pain might continue for quite some time. \u00a0The Chairman of the Fed is predicting &#8216;long inflation,&#8217; as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/long-inflation\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Byron York frames it<\/a> at the <em>Washington Examiner:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>While much of the political world focused on the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, across town in Washington on Monday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell delivered a speech that could reverberate through the next two election cycles. What was so politically consequential about Powell&#8217;s speech?<strong>\u00a0His declaration that he expects it will take <em>three years<\/em> to bring inflation, currently at 7.9% annually, its highest rate in four decades, back to a normal level. &#8220;The inflation outlook has deteriorated significantly this year, even before Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>Powell told the National Association for Business Economics. &#8220;The rise in inflation has been much greater and more persistent than forecasters generally expected.&#8221; Powell then recounted how the experts at the Federal Reserve consistently underestimated the increase in inflation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Powell pledged stronger Fed actions, including bigger increases in interest rates, to bring inflation under control. But given current conditions, <strong>he admitted that inflation is going to be around for a while.<\/strong> &#8220;As the magnitude and persistence of the increase in inflation became increasingly clear over the second half of last year, and as the job market recovery accelerated beyond expectations, the [Fed&#8217;s Federal Open Market Committee] pivoted to progressively less accommodative monetary policy,&#8221; Powell said. &#8220;I believe these policy actions and those to come will help bring inflation down near 2% over the next three years.&#8221; <strong>Three years. That would be until early 2025. In between, we will have the 2022 midterm elections and the 2024 presidential election. And that is the political consequence of Powell&#8217;s speech. Inflation is the biggest single concern of the nation&#8217;s voters at the moment.<\/strong> Barring some enormous, entirely unforeseen event, inflation will remain the voters&#8217; biggest single concern in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave you with the following statistical nugget. \u00a0I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s just a coincidence that of the top ten counties experiencing population explosions, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DKThomp\/status\/1507006859818901506\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">nine of them<\/a> are in red states (Texas, Florida, Arizona, and Utah):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Where are the 10 counties that accounted for 80% of net growth in the US last year?<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 is Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>5 of the 10 are in Texas, including 2 suburbs of Plano and 2 suburbs of Houston.<\/p>\n<p>2 of the 10 are in Florida: Orlando and Cape Coral-Ft Myers.<\/p>\n<p>The other is Provo, UT. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h2CcdSOh02\">pic.twitter.com\/h2CcdSOh02<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DKThomp\/status\/1507008238323085315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This latest data set comes from pollster Anne Selzer&#8217;s outfit, in partnership with Grinnell College. \u00a0Seltzer is viewed as the gold standard in Iowa political polling, but she<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}