12-03-2014, 08:58 PM
(12-03-2014, 07:27 PM)washingtonismoney link Wrote:You say roughly evenly split, I say widely. I have no idea how that equates to my statement being incorrect, but I think we basically agree.
If you re-polled people re: OJ I would guess almost no one would say the jury found correctly. Yet many -- even a wide number of people! -- thought that the jury got it right. That's interesting, given current perception and presentation of the trial.
My apologies. I interpreted "widely held" to mean "majority" or something like that.
It's an interesting question whether many people have changed their minds. There are recent articles claiming that either many blacks have changed their mind about OJ and that very few have changed their minds about OJ. Most of these are based upon interviews with a couple of individuals.
There is an Economist sponsored poll that seems to roughly match your assertion, that many have changed.
https://today.yougov.com/news/2014/06/12...ars-later/
But even in 1995, the Black support for OJ wasn't really about OJ, but rather a protest against the system and the LAPD.