While public opinion may be evenly split over whether race relations in America are improving or deteriorating, its estimation of one of the issue’s highest profile activists, Rev. Al Sharpton, is severely lopsided: most people – 60 percent, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll taken last year – simply don’t like the guy. When it comes to Sharpton’s brand of American leadership, though, popularity is beside the point. Like Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, what’s important is being widely known for loudly fighting on principles his core supporters believe in. Interestingly, Sharpton and Cruz share the same favorability number in the polls, 26 percent. But Sharpton holds a distinct edge on being widely known. While 62 percent of those polled know enough about Cruz to form an opinion of him, for Sharpton the number is a whopping 86 percent. That kind of fame sells, which is why Sharpton has a television show on MSNBC and a syndicated radio show broadcast in 40 media markets and on Sirius XM satellite radio. His new book, The Rejected Stone, will likely sell pretty well – and perhaps, for some readers, it will do what it sets out to do: provide guideposts for how […]
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