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On The front lines
Obama maintains
dwindling lead
in Virginia poll
BY
A
MY
G
ARDNER
AND
S
COTT
C
LEMENT
President Obama is clinging to
a slender four-point lead over Re-
publican Mitt Romney in Virginia
as both sides ramp up already
aggressive campaigns in the cru-
cial battleground state, according
to a
new Washington Post poll
.
Obama outpolled Romney, 51 to
47 percent, among likely Virginia
voters, although he lost the clearer
52-to-44
BY
P
AUL
S
CHWARTZMAN
A hurricane of enormous force
marched north Saturday, poised
to
hammer the Eastern Seaboard
as early as Monday and disrupt life
for millions as it sweeps across
eight states toward Canada.
From North Carolina to the
coastal edges of Maine, public offi-
cials urged residents to fortify
themselves against Hurricane
Sandy, which is expected to un-
leash torrential rains and winds of
up to 75 mph, even for those resid-
ing as far as 100 miles from the
storm’s center.
By Saturday afternoon, officials
in Haiti said the storm was re-
sponsible for 29 deaths, as Sandy
blew through the Bahamas and
traveled north over the Atlantic
Ocean,
percent
advantage
he
held in mid-September.
Unlike in the Washington Post-
ABC News
national tracking poll
,
Obama still has an edge when
Virginia voters are asked who bet-
ter understands people’s financial
problems, and he has not fallen
behind a surging Romney on the
question of who would better han-
dle the national economy. Nor has
Obama lost significant ground
among self-identified indepen-
dents in Virginia, as he has nation-
ally.
The results underscore the im-
portance of swing states like Vir-
ginia, with its 13 electoral votes, as
both campaigns seek to secure a
path to the 270 electoral votes
needed for victory.
Perhaps the poll’s most striking
insight concerns the many voters
the two campaigns have contacted
in Virginia this fall. A staggering
44 percent of likely voters polled
said they had been contacted by
the Obama campaign; 41 percent
said the same of Romney’s. More
than one in four had heard from
both campaigns.
Both campaigns have increased
efforts to reach voters since last
month, although fewer voters said
they had been contacted by
Obama’s team this time than four
years ago. Romney’s organization,
meanwhile, is outperforming Sen.
John McCain’s in 2008.
In addition, as if to confirm
both sides’ emphasis on early vot-
ing, 4 percent of likely voters
polled said they had already voted
by absentee ballot. An additional
41 percent said they were likely to
do so, which would be a sharp
jump from four years ago.
The numbers reflect the inten-
sit
y of the two campaigns
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n V
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virginia
continued on
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several
hundred
miles
southeast of Charleston, S.C.
While Sandy’s speed had de-
clined to 75 mph, making it possi-
ble that it would lose its status as a
tropical storm or hurricane, mete-
orologists said it would pick up
force as it merges with a jet stream
and a nor’easter.
Two computer tracking sys-
tems remained in agreement that
the hurricane would arrive on
shore between the Delmarva Pen-
insula and Rhode Island. But San-
dy’s reach will extend as far as 450
miles from its core, which prompt-
ed at least one governor, Chris
Christie of New Jersey, to order
evacuations of coastal areas and
the state’s casinos.
The impending storm disrupt-
ed the rhythms of an otherwise
warm fall Saturday, as utility
crews up and down the East Coast
worked overtime to prepare, and
storm
continued on
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The Bull’s-eye State:
Candidates aim their
full arsenals at Ohio
BY
D
AN
B
ALZ
AND
F
ELICIA
S
ONMEZ
columbus, ohio —
Kathy Wade
was out mowing her lawn on a raw
and rainy Friday when Doyle and
Jane Peyton, volunteer canvassers
for
Mitt Romney’s campaign
,
stopped at the curb in her subur-
ban neighborhood 20 miles from
Columbus. Doyle asked her: Had
she decided how she would vote in
the presidential election?
Wade paused. “I am one of
those lovely, undecided Ohio fe-
male voters,” she said.
She was reluctant to talk much
about the choice she faces in decid-
ing between Romney and
Presi-
dent Obama
, she said, but the smile
on her face reflected the under-
standing that she and every other
voter in Ohio — decided or not —
are at the center of one of the epic
struggles in presidential politics.
Ohio has played a central role in
presidential campaigns for many
years, but at no time has its signifi-
cance been as great as in 2012. It is
as if the entire presidential cam-
paign is being waged in this com-
plex
and sprawling state.
ohio
continued on
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Democrats face
a long and bumpy
road in the House
BY
P
AUL
K
ANE
AND
E
D
O
’
K
EEFE
President Obama remains at
least an even bet to win reelec-
tion. Democrats are favored to
hold on to the Senate — an
outcome few prognosticators en-
visioned at the beginning of the
year. And yet, with a little more
than a week to go, the party holds
almost
no
chance
of
winning
back the House.
“They called the fight. It’s over.
We’re going to have a House next
year that’s going to look an awful
lot like the last House,” said
Stuart Rothenberg, the indepen-
dent analyst who runs the
Roth-
enberg Political Report
.
The outlines of a comeback for
Democrats seemed possible.
From its opening act, the 112th
Congress was dominated by a
raucous class of House freshmen
who pushed Washington to the
brink of several government
shutdowns and almost prompted
a first-ever default on the federal
debt. It became the most unpop-
ular Congress in the history of
polli
ng and, by some meas
ures,
house
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With 10 days to go before Election Day, the candidates
continued their swing-state push Saturday. RepublicanMitt
Romney, at top, spoke at a rally in Pensacola, Fla. Above,
President Obama greeted people at an event in Nashua, N.H.
Storm alters plans
After East Coast rallies, both
campaigns scrambled to make
schedule changes just 10 days
before the election.
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Out of context
A close look at an Obama
campaign ad attacking Romney’s
remarks on troop levels in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Fact Checker, A4
Ballot bedlam
Voters in D.C. and Maryland rush
to early-voting sites only to find
long lines and overwhelmed
election officials.
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continuing coverage of the
2012 presidential election, go to
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This satellite image shows
Hurricane Sandy over the
eastern coastline of the United
States on Saturday.
A declining Japan loses its once-hopeful champions
Preparing for Sandy
Safety measures that you and your
loved ones should follow before and
during the storm.
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Experts fear Sandy may flood the
Chesapeake Bay with sediment and
trash from the Conowingo Dam.
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region’s dominant power.
“I am the last Japan optimist,”
Koll said in a recent speech in
Tokyo.
Indeed, the once-common spe-
cies has been virtually wiped out.
It was only two decades ago that
Japan’s boosters — mainly foreign
diplomats and authors, econo-
mists and entrepreneurs — touted
the tiny nation as a global model
for how to attain prosperity and
power.
But the group has turned grad-
ually into nonbelievers, with sev-
eral of the last holdouts losing
faith only recently, as Japan has
failed to carry out meaningful re-
forms after the March 2011 triple
disaster.
The mass turnabout has helped
launch an alternative — and in-
creasingly accepted — school of
thought about Japan: The country
is not just in a prolonged slump
but also in an inescapable decline.
There’s frequent evidence for
that in economic data, and in the
country’s destiny to become ever-
smaller, doomed by demographics
that will shrink the population
from about 127 million today to
47 million in 2100, according to
government data.
The current doom is a sharp
reversal from several decades ago,
when Japanese companies bought
up Columbia Pictures and Rocke-
feller Center, and Americans ar-
gued whether Japan was to be
feared or envied.
Like a separate but related
group, known as “Japan bashers,”
the optimists were bullish about
Japan’s future as an economic
powerhouse. But unlike the bash-
ers, who viewed Japan as a danger-
ous
States, the optimists saw Japan as
a benevolent superpower — rich
but
Few expect nation to rise
again after two decades
of eco
nomic stagn
ation
peaceful,
with
a
diligence
worth emulating.
Now, when Japan is discussed,
it’s instead for its unenviable fiscal
problems — debt, rising social se-
curity costs, flagging trade with
China because of an ongoing terri-
torial dispute.
China, not Japan, is mentioned
in U.S. presidential debates and
described as the next threat to
Am
erican supremacy. Japan’s
gov-
japan
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C
HICO
H
ARLAN
tokyo —
Jesper Koll, an econo-
mist who’s lived in Japan for 26
years, says it’s not easy for him to
keep faith in a country that’s
shrinking, aging, stuck in pro-
tracted economic gloom and los-
ing fast ground to China as the
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For early victim’s kin, a dearth of answers
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Other patients definitively di-
agnosed with fungal meningitis
after getting potentially contami-
nated injections suffered strokes
in the same region of the brain.
The stroke pattern offered suf-
ficient evidence for investigators
at the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention to count the five
deaths as probable fatalities due
to the outbreak.
Still, observed William Schaff-
ner, chairman of preventive med-
icine at Vanderbilt University
Medical Center, the Nashville
hospital where Lovelace died,
“While that ‘probable’ classifica-
tion works superbly for public
health circumstances . . . an indi-
vidual family might have a differ-
body, for instance. Lovelace’s phy-
sician declined to comment be-
cause the family will not sign a
broad release form.
According to Talbott, at first no
one at the hospital was overly
concerned because her father’s
symptoms seemed mild and he
appeared to be recovering quickly.
When Lovelace took a sudden
turn for the worse, the focus shift-
ed to trying to increase blood flow
to his brain in an ultimately futile
effort to contain the damage.
It wasn’t until a week and a half
after his burial that his family
learned there might have been
more to his death.
The first clue came several days
after the Sept. 21 funeral. Joyce
“I immediately thought, well
my dad is one of those people
[who got shots there]. And this
may be what happened to him,”
she said. She was unaware that
her father was one of the two
fatalities already being counted.
Two days later, a spokeswoman
for Vanderbilt hospital told a re-
porter from the Tennessean that
the first death in the outbreak was
that of a 78-year-old man who had
passed away at the hospital Sept.
17.
FOX NEWS SUNDAY
(WTTG)
Sens.
Mark R.Warner
(D-Va.),
Mark Udall
(D-Colo.),
Rob
Portman
(R-Ohio) and
Ronald H. Johnson
(R-Wis.).
Focus in meningitis
outbreak has been on
prote
cting wider p
ublic
9 a.m.
STATE OF THE UNION
(CNN)
Obama campaign senior adviser
David Axelrod
; Republican
National Committee Chairman
Reince Priebus
; Virginia
Gov.
Robert F. McDonnell
(R); and former Ohio governor
Ted Strickland
.
9 a.m.
BY
N
.
C
.
A
IZENMAN
No one seems to doubt that
78-year-old Eddie Lovelace was
one of the first to die in the grow-
ing fungal meningitis outbreak
that so far has killed 25 people.
News media reported that he
was one of the victims almost as
soon as the outbreak became pub-
lic. Tennessee state health officials
and staff at the hospital where
Lovelace died Sept. 17 readily ac-
knowledge to reporters that he is
on a federal government list of
fatalities linked to contaminated
steroid injections made by a Mas-
sachusetts specialty pharmacy.
Yet his widow can’t get any
officials to tell her that directly.
“On top of my grief, and my
anger over the way it’s all been
handled, I’ve had so much trouble
finding out anything concrete,”
said Joyce Lovelace, 75, a resident
of Albany, Ky. “I don’t even know
when I’ll have answers, or if I ever
will.”
For weeks, she has been press-
ing authorities to provide an offi-
cial cause of death for her husband
of 55 years, a longtime Kentucky
circuit court judge who got spinal
injections last summer to relieve
back pain after an auto accident.
His death certificate cites the
cause as “pending investigation.”
In an outbreak characterized by
uncertainty, with thousands of
people frightened that any head-
ache, dizziness or sign of fever
could mean that they have con-
tracted meningitis, the families of
such early victims are in a special
category of ambiguity.
Many of these first-to-die were
buried before federal officials be-
gan to suspect a burgeoning pub-
lic health crisis in which some
14,000 people might be at risk.
Instead, Eddie Lovelace and at
least four others were originally
thought to have succumbed to a
rare type of stroke.
What convinced health officials
otherwise wasn’t merely the dis-
covery, after their deaths, that
these patients had gotten suspect
injections, but the location of their
strokes: at the back of the head.
NEWSMAKERS
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Sen.
Rand Paul
(R-Ky.).
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THIS WEEK
(ABC, WJLA)
Obama deputy campaign manager
Stephanie Cutter
; and
former House speaker
Newt Gingrich
.
The reporter called Joyce Love-
lace to ask whether she thought
her husband might be the man
being referred to.
“I’m very unhappy that I had to
find out this way,” she said.
Meanwhile, she kept trying to
get help with another vexing
question: how to obtain a death
certificate. Her attorney, Thomas
Carroll, said he was told by the
Tennessee Health Department
that the certificate was in the
hands of the Davidson County
medical examiner’s office in Nash-
ville, and “it’s on hold.”
David Reagan, the depart-
ment’s chief medical officer, said
he regrets that his staff was not
more forthcoming with Joyce
Lovelace. But he said it was an
unfortunate result of the pres-
sures of responding to a rapidly
evolving health crisis. “People
were working around the clock.
So yeah, in normal circumstances,
it would have been easier to try to
think clearly about, ‘Boy, we’d re-
ally like to reach out.’ ”
It wasn’t until last week that
Tennessee authorities finally is-
sued Joyce Lovelace the version of
her husband’s death certificate
listing cause of death as pending
investigation.
That status raises practical con-
cerns, she said. On Friday, her
application for some of her hus-
band’s retirement benefits was re-
jected on the grounds that the
death certificate is incomplete.
And she wonders how she’ll be
able to collect his life insurance
policy, which included a rider of-
fering additional benefits in case
of accidental death.
But most galling, she said, is the
sense that officials have been in-
different to her situation.
“It’s like a slap in the face,” she
said. “It’s so inhuman to withhold
this kind of information.”
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10 a.m.
MEET THE PRESS
(NBC, WRC)
Colorado Gov.
John Hickenlooper
(D), Wisconsin Gov.
Scott Walker
(R) and Ohio Gov.
John Kasich
(R); and
Carly Fiorina
, vice chair of the National Republican
Senatorial Committee.
10:30 a.m.
“I don’t even know when I’ll
have answers, or if I ever will.”
Joyce Lovelace,
75-year-old widow of Eddie Lovelace,
left, who was among the first fatalities of the fungal
meningitis outbreak
FACE THE NATION
(CBS, WUSA)
Sen.
John McCain
(R-Ariz.); and Chicago Mayor
Rahm
Emmanuel
.
10:30 a.m.
WASHINGTON WATCH
(TV ONE)
Retired Army major general
John Hawkins III
; and
Tom
Tarantino
, chief policy officer for Iraq and Afghanistan
Veterans of America.
11 a.m.
ent view because they might wish
to know definitively what their
family member died of.”
Unfortunately, he added,
“We’re just stuck with that diffi-
culty.”
The widow’s experience of hav-
ing to piece together the details of
her husband’s case also high-
lights a gap in the ambitious offi-
cial response to the outbreak.
Federal and state officials, in their
effort to track and shut down the
source of the infection and alert
additional patients at risk, were
focused on protecting the wider
public. They proved less adept at
addressing the needs of relatives
of victims such as Eddie Lovelace.
His doctors never imagined his
stroke could have been caused by
meningitis, said daughter Karen
Talbott.
Neither did Talbott, a regis-
tered nurse. Eddie Lovelace expe-
rienced a few symptoms that in
retrospect appear connected to
meningitis—asevere headache
the night before he had the
stroke, for example. But when he
arrived at Vanderbilt on the
morning of Sept. 12, his primary
complaints were the classic re-
sults of stroke, loss of some con-
trol over one side of his face and
Lovelace said she received a
phone call from a woman at the St.
Thomas Outpatient Neurosur-
gery Center in Nashville, where he
had received three steroid injec-
tions since mid-summer.
How was Mr. Eddie doing, the
woman wanted to know. Well, Mr.
Eddie
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has
passed
away,
Joyce
Lovelace said she replied.
Unbeknown to her, the clinic
was calling at the instruction of
Tennessee’s Health Department,
which days earlier had learned
that the injections might have
been contaminated.
The woman made no mention
of meningitis. Neither did a sec-
ond woman who called from the
clinic the following day to inquire
about the circumstances of Mr.
Eddie’s death in more detail.
“I just thought they were doing
a courtesy call,” said Joyce Love-
lace. Staff at the clinic did not
reply to repeated phone calls and
e-mails requesting comment for
this article.
Then, on the morning of Oct. 3,
Talbott’s husband called her to the
television to watch a disturbing
report that at least two unnamed
people may have died as a result of
steroid injections at the St. Thom-
as facility.
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field, from his first press conference in Washington, to
watching him wash dishes after dinner at his parents’ house,
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today’s WP Magazine, which
was printed in advance,
shows the wrong number of
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Food critic Tom Sietsema gave
Praline Bakery & Bistro in
Bethesda one star (for
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Frederick 2
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The outbreak’s victims
At left, George Cary is seen with his
daughters Heather Andrus, 33, center,
and Jill Bloser, 43, who holds a photo
of her mother in Howell, Mich. The
death of Lilian Cary, 67, on Sept. 30 is
linked to the fungal meningitis
outbreak tied to contaminated
steroids. Above, Janet Russell is seen
earlier this year with her husband,
Bobby, in Nashville. She is also
suffering from fungal meningitis.
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U.S. officials pull Pakistan’s Khan
off plane; his party seeks apology
R
EUTERS
new york —
Pakistani politician
Imran Kahn, a vocal critic of U.S.
drone strikes, was briefly delayed
and questioned by U.S. immigra-
tion officials in Toronto before be-
ing allowed to board a flight to
New York, prompting his party to
demand an apology from Wash-
ington.
Khan told his followers on Twit-
ter that he was detained and inter-
rogated Friday about his views on
drones. A State Department offi-
cial confirmed Khan had been
briefly detained but said the for-
mer Pakistani cricket star was lat-
er released to go the United States.
“The issue was resolved, and Mr.
Khan is welcome in the United
States,” the official said.
Ali Zaidi, senior vice president
of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-In-
saf party, demanded an apology
from U.S. authorities for their two-
hour questioning of Khan and his
traveling companions, as well as a
thorough investigation.
The State Department gave no
details about why Khan was de-
tained. The U.S. Customs and Bor-
der Protection agency said it was
prohibited from discussing specif-
ic cases.
Khan, who led a march to
northern Pakistan this month to
protest U.S. drone strikes, vowed
to continue opposing the deadly
attacks. “Nothing will change my
stance,” he said.
“I was taken off from plane and
interrogated by U.S. Immigration
in Canada on my views on drones.
My stance is known. Drone attacks
must stop,” Khan tweeted Friday
afternoon.
Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-In-
saf party said the politician ar-
rived safely in New York on Friday,
the first day of the Muslim Eid-al-
Adha holiday, after the delay at the
Toronto airport and went directly
to a fundraising lunch.
Zaidi said the incident violated
ethical and diplomatic norms and
the Pakistani government should
complain to the U.S. Embassy in
Islamabad.
Calling Khan “a celebrated na-
tional hero” and a “global icon of
colossal stature,” Zaidi wrote on
the party’s Web site that to “sub-
ject him to such clumsy and vi-
cious treatment speaks volumes
about the exasperation induced in
the American ranks by his heroic
and patriotic-minded opposition
to the drone program.”
In an e-mail, the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection agency de-
clined to comment on the case but
said travelers who want to enter
the United States bear the burden
of proof to establish that they are
eligible for admission and that
includes
Pakistani authorities this
month stopped a protest led by
Khan from entering the troubled
region of South Waziristan, a trib-
al area frequently hit by drone
strikes.
Khan blames the Pakistan gov-
ernment for allowing the United
States to operate in the country
and has said he will order the
Pakistani air force to shoot the
unmanned planes down if he wins
next year’s elections in Pakistan.
Earlier this month, Khan led a
march to northern Pakistan to
protest the drone strikes, which
have killed between 2,600 and
3,400 Pakistanis, according to the
independent London-based Bu-
reau of Investigative Journalism.
Some Pakistanis say Khan is
fanning anti-American sentiment
to bolster his political career and
criticize him for refusing to con-
demn atrocities by the Taliban or
Pakistani army.
Others praise him for reaching
out to Pakistan’s northern tribal
areas and say he is standing up for
a war-ravaged population ignored
by mainstream politicians.
The United States says the
strikes have killed top Taliban and
al-Qaeda commanders and that
civilian casualties are minimal.
But it has not said how targets are
selected or how the military deter-
mines whether the dead were
fighters or civilians.
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gment
Accusations against
generals cast a long
shadow over Army
LEA
DERSHIP SCREENING IS SCRUTINI
ZED
Co
mplaints about senior officers are grow
ing
BY
E
RNESTO
L
ONDOÑO
The accusations leveled
against three Army generals over
the past six months are as varied
as they are striking, the highest-
profile of a growing number of
allegations of wrongdoing by se-
nior military officials.
A one-star general was flown
home from Afghanistan this
spring to face criminal charges,
including sexual assault. A four-
star general formerly in charge of
the increasingly vital Africa com-
mand was accused of financial
mismanagement, accepting inap-
propriate gifts and assigning staff
personal tasks.
And a three-star general who
oversees the U.S. Missile Defense
Agency was described in an in-
spector general report as an abra-
sive and verbally abusive boss.
The investigations have be-
come an embarrassment for the
Army, raising questions about
how thoroughly the military has
screened senior leaders before
putting them in crucial assign-
ments.
The Defense Department’s in-
spector general reviewed 38 cases
of alleged wrongdoing by senior
officials in 2011, and substantiat-
ed the accusations in nearly
40 percent of the them, up from
21 percent in 2007. The total
caseload this year is on track to
exceed last year’s.
“It’s always concerning when
senior leaders have issues, be-
cause we have very specific faith
in senior leaders,” Gen. Ray Odi-
erno, Army chief of staff, said in a
recent interview. Odierno said all
such cases are taken seriously,
but argued that “we can’t allow a
few to detract from the honorable
service of many.”
The investigation into Gen.
William E. Ward, the former chief
of Africa Command, is being
closely watched at the Pentagon,
where rank-and-file officers won-
der aloud whether senior leaders
will be reticent to punish one of
their own.
A June 26 report, compiled
after investigators pored through
a trove of e-mails and expense
reports, portrays a general using
taxpayer funds to support a high-
rolling lifestyle.
The inspector general conclud-
ed that Ward used government
funds to pay for personal travel
expenses; assigned staff to run
errands for him and his wife; and
accepted meals and Broadway
tickets from a defense contractor,
in violation of Pentagon rules.
The inspector general’s report
says he wasted and misused tens
of thousands of taxpayer dollars.
For example, he billed the govern-
ment $129,000 for an 11-day trip
to Atlanta with a team of 13
people, even though he only con-
ducted business during three of
the days, the inspector general
found.
On Feb. 14 he sent the follow-
ing e-mail to an aide: “Might you
be able to stop by a florist and
pick up a small bouquet of spring
flowers for me? Not extravagant
at all — just a small not very
SUSAN WALSH/ASSOCIATED PRESS
From left, Lt. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly has been accused of creating a toxic atmosphere at the Missile
Defense Agency; an inquiry has been launched into Gen. William E. Ward’s use of taxpayer funds;
and Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair faces criminal charges that include forcible sodomy.
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U.S. ARMY VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY
R
OBERT
B
URNS
washington —
The Navy said
Saturday it is replacing the admi-
ral in command of an aircraft
carrier strike group in the Mid-
dle East, pending the outcome of
an internal investigation into
undisclosed allegations of inap-
propriate judgment.
Rear Adm. Charles M. Gaou-
ette is being sent back to the USS
John C. Stennis’s home port in
Bremerton, Wash., in what the
Navy called a temporary reas-
signment.
The Navy said he is not formal-
ly relieved of his command of the
Stennis strike group but will be
replaced by Rear Adm. Troy M.
Shoemaker, who will assume
command until the investigation
is complete.
It is highly unusual for the
Navy to replace a carrier strike
group commander during its de-
ployment.
The Navy did not reveal de-
tails of the allegations, citing
only an accusation of “inappro-
priate leadership judgment” that
arose during the strike group’s
deployment to the Middle East.
Rear Adm. John Kirby, the
Navy’s chief spokesman, de-
clined to discuss the investiga-
tion.
The Stennis group deployed
from Bremerton in late August
and had entered the Navy
5th Fleet’s area of operations in
the Middle East on Oct. 17 after
sailing across the Pacific.
The Stennis made port visits
in Thailand and Malaysia on its
way to the Middle East.
It deployed four months earli-
er than scheduled in response to
a request by the commander of
U.S. Central Command, Marine
Gen. James Mattis, to maintain
two aircraft carriers in the Mid-
dle East. The Stennis replaced
the
expensive bouquet.” The aide of-
fered to get it and asked where
the general would like the flowers
delivered. Ward responded: “Can
you have in the limo pls — trunk.
Tnx”
Ward rejected several of the
accusations of wrongdoing in a
written response to the inspector
general’s findings, arguing, for
instance, that many of the ex-
penses in question were legiti-
mate. The general declined a
request for comment made
through the Army’s public affairs
office.
The inspector general’s conclu-
sions on Ward were released two
months before the agency issued
a report documenting allegations
that Lt. Gen. Patrick J. O’Reilly
created a toxic atmosphere at the
Missile Defense Agency (MDA) by
berating staff members. Quoting
a witness, the inspector general’s
report described his style as
“management by blowtorch and
pliers.”
Staffers at the MDA, the agency
tasked with keeping the United
States safe from missile attacks,
described a culture of fear and
low morale, in one case citing as
an example a senior staff meeting
during which O’Reilly called sub-
ordinates “a bunch of god-
damned idiots,” according to the
report.
The report says O’Reilly dis-
puted the characterizations, say-
ing that some employees were
unaccustomed to “having their
work questioned when it includ-
ed faulty logic, unsupported con-
clusions or other deficiencies.”
The report says that the general
maintains that he “never insulted
or verbally abused anyone.”
O’Reilly remains in charge of the
agency, although the Senate is set
to vote on a nominee to be his
successor. O’Reilly also did not
respond to a request for comment
made through an Army spokes-
man.
The case that came to light
most recently involved the crimi-
nal investigation against Brig.
Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair, who was
removed from his job as the
deputy commander of the 82nd
Airborne Division in May and
flown home from Afghanistan.
Although the militiary has re-
leased few details about the in-
vestigation, officials at Fort
Bragg, N.C., where the 82nd is
based, released a summary of the
criminal charges filed against
him last month. They include
forcible sodomy, wrongful sexual
conduct, engaging in inappropri-
ate relationships, misusing a gov-
ernment charge card and pos-
sessing alcohol and pornography
while deployed.
Sinclair will appear before the
military equivalent of a grand
jury Nov. 5 to establish whether
there is sufficient evidence for a
court-martial. Ben Abel, a spokes-
man at Fort Bragg, said Sinclair’s
defense team declined a request
for comment.
Garrison, the deputy inspector
general, said it is unclear whether
the increase in cases suggests
that more senior leaders are en-
gaging in inappropriate behavior.
“I would like to say people are
more vigilant than they were in
the past,” she said. “Folks are
looking at the IG system as some-
thing that has teeth.”
The spike in cases has prompt-
ed the inspector general’s office to
create nine new positions during
the past two years to augment its
team of investigators reviewing
charges of misconduct, spokes-
woman Bridget Serchak said. The
office will soon have 26 investiga-
tors.
Senior Army leaders are ex-
pected to make their recommen-
dation on Ward’s case and O’Reil-
ly’s to Defense Secretary Leon E.
Panetta in the coming days. Ward
could be forced to pay back mon-
ey and retire at a reduced rank.
“This is not a good-old-boy’s
club,” Odierno said this week
during a news conference at an
Army convention in Washington.
“When you do something wrong
you will be held accountable.”
londonoe@washpost.com
‘Into the hands of others’
New York siblings’ slayings send a chill through working parents
DIGEST
her sister’s daughter, Kelly said.
The nanny’s family has been
cooperating with police, the com-
missioner said. Ortega had no
history of mental illness of which
police were aware and no domes-
tic incident reports that involved
her, he said.
The mother had gone to a
neighborhood YMCA for swim-
ming lessons with her 3-year-old
daughter and was supposed to
meet the nanny and the two
other children at a dance studio
later in the afternoon, Kelly said.
When the nanny didn’t show,
the mother went to the apart-
ment and found the two children
clothed and in the bathroom
with stab wounds to their bodies,
said Paul Browne, a police
spokesman. When the mother
entered the bathroom, the nanny
started to stab herself, Browne
said. When police arrived, the
nanny was on the bathroom floor
with a knife next to her.
The tragedy that has befallen
the Krims is a family’s worst
nightmare. It has many parents
across the city and the country
rethinking how they go about
hiring nannies. Often it has gone
something like this: A neighbor
lets it be known an excellent
nanny is about to become avail-
able because the family she
works for is being transferred to
London. Another will be free
next year because the child she
has spent the last five years
tending to is off to first grade.
Heather Stone, a stay-at-home
mom with a 1-year-old son, said
she hired her caretaker after a
20-minute interview and a rec-
ommendation from a working
mom. She trusts her nanny, she
said, but the killings made her
rethink how she approached the
hiring process.
“Next time, I would definitely
get more references,” she said.
The fallout is likely to affect
day-care centers to which par-
ents may turn in greater num-
bers. Lisandra Lopez, director at
Mabel Barrett Fitzgerald Day
Care Center in Manhattan, said
the most common question she
gets from parents choosing day
care is how staff members are
screened.
Some anxious parents are
turning to a technological fix.
Daniel McBride, owner of Ameri-
can Eagle Investigations, a Man-
hattan surveillance company,
said he received three calls from
parents before 9 a.m. Friday.
“One caller wanted everything
possible, and others just wanted
some
whose company installs in-home
security cameras that parents
can monitor remotely. “It’s a
knee-jerk reaction, but they’re
practices
BY
R
YAN
F
AUGHNDER
AND
R
ENEE
D
UDLEY
new york —
When Marina
Krim found two of her young
children fatally stabbed upon
returning home to the family’s
Upper West Side apartment,
their nanny alongside them,
stabbing herself, a tremor rocked
the world of New York child care.
As the news quickly spread, par-
ents across New York City and
beyond
people
should
think
USS
Enterprise
carrier
about before hiring.”
Meantime, parents’ groups are
grappling to make sense of the
tragedy. There’s a feeling of soli-
darity among parents when such
a tragedy occurs, said Leslie
Venokur, the co-founder of Big
City Moms, a social organization
for working parents in New York.
“The whole mom community,
we feel like we know each other
and we know each others’ kids,”
she said. “When something hap-
pens to a fellow young family, it
feels like it’s happening right in
our backyard.”
group.
Defense Secretary Leon E. Pa-
netta visited the Stennis and its
sailors in Bremerton shortly be-
fore they departed.
He thanked them for acceler-
ating their deployment on short
notice.
“I understand that it is tough,”
Panetta said. “We are asking an
awful lot of each of you, but
frankly you are the best I have
and when the world calls, we
have to respond.”
— Associated Press
were
shaken
to
their
core.
For decades, the business of
entrusting young children to a
nanny has been a fraught yet
informal affair for busy dual-
career New York couples. Leav-
ing children in the care of others
tended to be a process that was
patched together, word-of-
mouth affairs with little more to
guide parents than a wink of
encouragement from a trusted
neighbor. Now, the wisdom and
safety of that time-tested ap-
proach has been crushed. In
neighborhoods, workplaces and
on blogs, professional and stay-
at-home parents alike are ques-
tioning their path forward.
“Everyone puts their children
into the hands of others,” said
Lisa Berger, mother of a 6-year-
old in Brooklyn, who has two
jobs and works 60 hours per
week. “Sure, you can run a back-
ground check and drug tests, but
you can never determine how
people are going to act in certain
situations or know their break-
ing points.”
The Krim family could never
have known the terrible conse-
quences of their choice of child
care. One-year-old Leo and his
6-year-old sister, Lucia, were
found in a bathtub by their
mother, who returned to their
home about 5:30 p.m. Thursday,
according to police. The children
had been left with their nanny,
Yoselyn Ortega.
Ortega, 50, was in critical con-
dition at a New York hospital,
and police hadn’t been able to
speak with her, Commissioner
Raymond Kelly said Friday. Pos-
sible
LUCY NICHOLSON/REUTERS
CALIFORNIA:
Aman competes in the ZJ Boarding House
Halloween surf contest in Santa Monica.
to spy on the school’s club for
Muslim students.
School President Jeremy Travis
sent a letter to students and pro-
fessors Thursday reacting to an
Associated Press report on the 19-
year-old informant, Shamiur
Rahman, who said he quit work-
ing for the NYPD at the end of the
summer after growing uncom-
fortable with the job.
In the letter, Travis said he was
unaware of the spying, and ex-
pressed concerns about using in-
formants for surveillance where
there was no evidence of a crime.
Police Department spokesman
Paul Browne wouldn’t comment
on Travis’s concerns.
—Associated Press
Police net marijuana lollipops in
raid in Buffalo:
Just in time for
Halloween, New York police say a
drug raid in Buffalo turned up
640 marijuana lollipops that had
been obtained in California
where medical marijuana is legal.
The Buffalo News reported that
police raided a party on Thursday
attended by some University of
Buffalo students and found the
Jolly Lolly suckers, as well as leaf
marijuana, cocaine and $13,000
in cash.
Zombies to attend security sum-
mit in San Diego:
Military, law en-
forcement and medical personnel
will observe a Hollywood-style
production of a zombie attack as
part of their emergency response
training. “No one knows what the
zombies will do in our scenario,
but quite frankly no one knows
what a terrorist will do,” said Brad
Barker, president of Halo Corp, a
security firm hosting the Oct. 31
training demonstration during a
counterterrorism summit at a re-
sort island near San Diego.
—Fromnews services
PENNSYLVANIA
Girl, grandmother
killed in kidnapping
A family friend hoped to hold a
baby girl hostage to get $50,000
from her parents but instead
killed her and her grandmother
in a botched kidnapping, accord-
ing to police in a Philadelphia
suburb.
Raghunandan “Raghu” Yanda-
muri, 26, crafted a ransom note
threatening to kill the 10-month-
old girl if her parents did not
leave the money at a local super-
market. The plot unraveled when
he dropped the baby as he juggled
her and a kitchen knife and strug-
gled with her paternal grand-
mother, police said in an affidavit
filed Friday.
The grandmother was fatally
stabbed and suffered defensive
wounds. The parents were never
again contacted for money. Au-
thorities found the infant in a
bloody white dress beneath a
bench near the sauna of the fit-
ness center at the sprawling
apartment complex where Yanda-
muri and the victims lived.
The ransom note called the
parents by their family nick-
names, leading police to focus on
friends. Yandamuri later detailed
the botched crime to police and
said he had stolen jewelry, the af-
fidavit said.
— Bloomberg News
charges
have
yet
to
be
—Associated Press
determined, he said.
Ortega, a native of the Domini-
can Republic, is a naturalized
U.S. citizen and has lived in the
country for about 10 years, Kelly
said. She was referred to the
family by friends and had been
working for them for about two
years, he said.
The nanny lived at another
location on Manhattan’s West
Side with her son, her sister and
NEW YORK
Spying ‘troubles’
college president
The president of the John Jay
College of Criminal Justice said
he is “deeply troubled” about re-
ports that the New York Police De-
partment sent a paid informant
advice,”
said
McBride,
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CAMPAIGN 2012
Putting an Obama ad
on troops into context
“President
Obama ended the
Iraq War . . . Mitt
Romney would
have left 30,000
troops there . . .
and called
bringing them
home ‘tragic.’
Obama’s brought
30,000 soldiers
back from
Afghanistan. And has a
responsible plan to end the war.
Romney calls it Obama’s ‘biggest
mistake.’ ”
— Voiceover from a new
Obama campaign television ad
On the eve of last week’s final
presidential debate — which
focused on foreign policy — the
Obama campaign released a new
television ad that uses Mitt
Romney’s words to indict how
he would have handled the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In fact, the president echoed
some of those claims during the
debate, earning a rebuttal from
Romney:
“What I would not have had
done was left 10,000 troops in
Iraq that would tie us down. And
that certainly would not help us
in the Middle East.”
In other words, the phrase
“tragic” referred to the failure to
not reach a deal — not bringing
the troops home.
Here’s how Romney put it on
Fox News Sunday on Dec. 18:
“We’re, of course, very happy
to see our troops come out. But I
think you’re going to see another
lesson learned. I think we’re go-
ing to find that this president, by
not putting in place a status in
forces agreement with the Iraqi
leadership, has pulled our troops
out in a precipitous way and we
should have left 10,000, 20,000,
30,000 personnel there to help
transition to the Iraqis’ own mili-
tary capabilities. I’m very con-
cerned in this setting. I hope it
works out. But I’m concerned.”
That’s where the
“30,000 troops” comes from — it
was an upper-range figure. In
other interviews, Romney also
said he would have preferred to
have left 10,000 to 30,000 troops
in Iraq. The mid-range of that
point, of course, is what military
commanders wanted.
In other words, Obama has
spun a diplomatic failure — an
inability to reach a deal with
Iraq — into a “mission
accomplished” talking point.
During the debate, in fact,
Obama made a dubious claim
that having any troops in Iraq
“would not help us in the Middle
East.”
Since the departure of U.S.
troops, the United States has
lost leverage in Iraq. For
instance, Iran uses Iraqi
airspace and convoys on the
ground to ferry arms and
military equipment to the
beleaguered regime in Syria — a
government that Obama says
must fall.
As for Afghanistan, here again
we have another out-of-context
quote. The ad makes it appear as
if Romney is criticizing the plan
to withdraw U.S. forces by 2014,
calling it Obama’s “biggest
mistake.”
Actually, in a pair of
interviews Romney referred to
Obama’s “biggest mistakes,”
which included announcing
dates when the surge would end
and when combat operations
would end.
Those are tactical questions.
Critics say announcing a
withdrawal date simply signals
to insurgents how long they
have to hang in there before the
Americans leave; supporters say
it motivates the Afghan
government to improve its
forces. But in any case it is not a
criticism of ending the war.
Romney has at times been
vague as to whether he would
prefer fighting to continue past
2014, but in Monday’s debate he
said he agreed with the current
plan: “We’re going to be finished
by 2014, and when I’m president,
we’ll make sure we bring our
troops out by the end of 2014.”
The Pinocchio Test
The Obama campaign
frequently cries foul when it
believes Romney has twisted
Obama’s words. But here the
Obama campaign, in a negative
way, gives as good as it gets.
The Fact
Checker
GLENN
KESSLER
MELINA MARA/THE WASHINGTON POST
Supporters try to catch a glimpse of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in an overflowing airplane hangar at a rally in Kissimmee, Fla.
Storm alters candidates’ campaign plans
even as he continues to campaign.
“This is an example, yet again,
of the president having to put his
responsibilities as commander in
chief and as leader of the country
first, while at the same time he
pursues his responsibilities as a
candidate for reelection,” Earnest
said.
Romney rallied 10,000 people
in Pensacola, Fla., on Saturday,
while his campaign canceled a
day of campaigning scheduled for
Virginia — three rallies set for
Sunday in Sterling, Richmond and
Virginia Beach. A Romney aide
said the Republican nominee in-
stead will head to Ohio to join his
running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan
(Wis.), on a bus tour across the
state.
Romney said he spoke Saturday
with Virginia Gov. Robert F. Mc-
Donnell (R), whom he said told
him that the state’s emergency
personnel needed to focus on pre-
paring for the storm. “So we’re not
going to be able to be in Virginia
tomorrow,” Romney told a rally in
Kissimmee, Fla. “We’re going to
Ohio instead. But I hope you’ll
keep the folks in Virginia and New
Jersey and New York and all along
the coast in your minds and in
your hearts. You know how tough
these hurricanes can be, and our
hearts go out to them.”
The schedule disruptions
didn’t stop the two candidates
from again delivering sharply per-
sonal attacks on each other Satur-
day. Obama used his appearance
near Romney’s home state of Mas-
sachusetts to accuse him of raising
taxes on the middle class when he
was governor in the form of a wide
range of service fees in order to
collect $750 million in revenue.
“There were higher fees to be a
barber, a nurse, to get gas, to buy
milk, for blind people to get the
certification that they were blind,”
Obama said, before cracking a
joke that played off the birther
conspiracy that the president was
not born in the United States. “He
raised fees on people to get birth
certificates,
“You know, the supporters of
the president’s have this chant:
‘Four more years! Four more
years!’” Romney said. He said that
he preferred the chant, “Ten more
days!”
“It’s 10 more days because it
matters to you,” Romney said.
“This election matters to the
world, it matters to the country,
but it matters to your family. And I
hope you understand that this is
an election about very big things,
like the big things that go on in
your life.”
Both rallies took on sharply
partisan tones.
Introducing Obama, Sen. Jean
Shaheen (D-N.H.) ridiculed one of
Romney’s most memorable de-
bate lines when she told the crowd
that New Hampshire “doesn’t
need ‘binders full of women’ be-
cause we have ballots full of wom-
en.”
At Romney’s rally, Rep. Jeff Mil-
ler (R-Fla.) delivered a fiery intro-
ductory speech in which he sug-
gested that it was Obama’s fault
that U.S. diplomatic workers were
killed last month in Benghazi, Lib-
ya.
After East Coast rallies,
Obama and Romney
force
d to cancel
stops
— Obama
“I’m sorry, there was an effort
on the part of the president to
have a status of forces
agreement, and I concurred in
that, and said that we should
have some number of troops that
stayed on. That was something I
concurred with.”
BY
D
AVID
N
AKAMURA
AND
P
HILIP
R
UCKER
nashua, n.h. —
President
Obama and rival Mitt Romney
held dueling rallies along the East-
ern Seaboard on Saturday, but
both of their campaigns were
scrambling to make schedule
changes to avoid Hurricane Sandy
just 10 days before voters head to
the polls.
Obama, who has convened a
pair of conference calls with the
Federal Emergency Management
Agency in the past two days, has
ordered that all federal resources
be available to help states respond
to the powerful storm that is ex-
pected to crash into the
Mid-Atlantic region by the end of
the weekend.
The president appeared at a
rally with 8,500 attendees in
Nashua on Saturday, and he was
planning to leave Washington
again Sunday, a day earlier than
initially planned, to beat the
storm for a swing through Florida
and Ohio on Monday. Campaign
aides said a planned rally in Vir-
ginia on Monday night is still on
schedule.
White House deputy press sec-
retary Josh Earnest said Obama is
“focused on” storm preparations,
— Romney
Both campaigns have often
taken their opponent’s words
out of context. Is that the case
here as well?
The Facts
Ending the war in Iraq was a
central Obama campaign
promise in the 2008 election.
But Romney is correct that the
Obama administration tried to
negotiate a “status of forces
agreement” (SOFA) with the
Iraqi government that would
have allowed the United States
to keep troops in Iraq after an
earlier agreement reached by
the Bush administration lapsed
at the end of 2011.
The two sides could not reach
agreement on immunity for U.S.
troops, but up until the end, the
administration was willing to
keep 3,000 to 4,000 troops in
Iraq. That’s less than 10,000, but
news reports at the time said
that military commanders had
wanted to keep 14,000 to 18,000
troops in Iraq.
It’s unclear how hard Obama
pressed for a deal; he had only
two conversations with the Iraqi
president, leaving most of the
negotiations to Vice President
Biden.
When Obama announced he
was withdrawing all U.S. troops
after he failed to reach a new
SOFA deal with the Iraqis,
Romney criticized the outcome
of the negotiations:
“It is my view that the with-
drawal of all of our troops from
Iraq by the end of this year is an
enormous mistake and failing by
the Obama administration. The
precipitous withdrawal is unfor-
tunate — it’s more than unfortu-
nate, I think it’s tragic. It puts at
risk many of the victories that
were hard won by the men and
women who served there.”
which
would
have
been expensive for me.”
The president said Romney’s
record shows that he promises
one thing while campaigning but
delivers another in office. Obama’s
campaign has sought to paint
Romney as untrustworthy since
their first debate, when the GOP
candidate appeared to reverse
himself on several positions relat-
ed to his tax plan and education.
“This is a guy who has a track
record saying one thing and doing
something else,” Obama said.
Meanwhile, Romney swooped
into Florida’s Republican-domi-
nated panhandle to rally his con-
servative base, charging that
Obama was “shrinking from the
magnitude of the times” and
pledging to undo much of his first-
term record.
Romney continued his new
mantra that he would bring “real
change and big change to Ameri-
ca” and promised to work across
the aisle with Democrats to tackle
big challenges such as the growing
debt. And, visiting an area heavily
populated with active and retired
military, Romney slammed
Obama for mocking him in the last
debate over his proposal to add
more ships to the Navy.
On the first day of early voting
in Florida, Romney campaigned
across the Sunshine State with
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
“America deserves a president
that will not leave a United States
ambassador and three others,”
Miller said, as the crowd chanted,
“U-S-A! U-S-A!” Miller added, “Mr.
President, the phone rang and you
didn’t answer it.”
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paigned in Kissimmee, a swing
suburb of Orlando where nearly
half the residents are Hispanic, to
try to make inroads with a voting
demographic that leans heavily in
Obama’s favor.
Two large banners hung over
the rally, saying in Spanish, “We
Need a Real Recovery.” And when
Rubio introduced Romney at the
rally of about 4,000, he delivered a
portion of his remarks in Spanish.
Switching back to English, the
senator joked, “If you don’t speak
Spanish, let me tell you what I
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Poll: Majority prejudiced against blacks
BY
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washington —
Racial attitudes
have not improved in the four
years since the United States elect-
ed its first black president, an As-
sociated Press poll has found, with
a slight majority of Americans
now expressing prejudice toward
blacks
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dent Obama could lose five per-
centage points off his share of the
popular vote in his Nov. 6 contest
against Republican challenger
Mitt Romney. But Obama also
stands to benefit from a three-per-
centage-point gain due to pro-
black sentiment, researchers said.
Overall, that means an estimated
net loss of two percentage points.
The poll finds that racial preju-
dice is not limited to one group of
partisans. Although Republicans
were more likely than Democrats
to express racial prejudice in the
questions measuring explicit rac-
ism (79 percent among Republi-
cans compared with 32 percent
among Democrats), the implicit
test found little difference be-
tween the two parties. That test
showed a majority of both Demo-
crats and Republicans held anti-
black feelings (55 percent of Dem-
ocrats and 64 percent of Republi-
cans), as did about half of political
independents (49 percent).
Most Americans expressed
anti-Hispanic sentiments, too. In
a 2011 AP survey, 52 percent of
non-Hispanic whites expressed
anti-Hispanic attitudes. That fig-
ure rose to 57 percent in the im-
plicit test. The survey on Hispan-
ics had no data for comparison.
The AP surveys were conducted
with researchers from Stanford
University, the University of Mich-
igan and Norc at the University of
Chicago.
Experts on race said they were
not surprised by the findings.
“We have this false idea that
there is uniformity in progress
and that things change in one big
step. That is not the way history
has worked,” said Jelani Cobb, pro-
fessor of history and director of
the Institute for African American
Studies at the University of Con-
necticut. “When we’ve seen prog-
ress, we’ve also seen backlash.”
“Part of it is growing polariza-
tion within American society,”
said Fredrick Harris, director of
the Institute for Research in Afri-
can American Studies at Colum-
bia University.
Overall results from each sur-
vey have a margin of sampling
error of about plus or minus
four percentage points. The most
recent poll, measuring anti-black
views, was conducted Aug. 30 to
Sept. 11.
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whether
they
recognize
those feelings or not.
Attitudes were measured using
questions that explicitly asked re-
spondents about racist attitudes
and through an experimental test
that measured implicit views
toward race without asking ques-
tions about that topic directly.
In all, 51 percent of Americans
now express explicit anti-black at-
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election. In both tests, the share of
Americans expressing pro-black
attitudes fell.
Overall, the survey found that
by virtue of racial prejudice, Presi-
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