Rep. Steve King is hanging out with the German far right and tweeting racist buzzwords
Rep. Steve King is hanging out with the German far right and tweeting racist buzzwords
- September 26, 2016
- Poli sci prof Michael Tesler’s research featured in Vox, Sept. 26, 2016
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UC Irvine Professor Michael Tesler .... looked at racial resentment scores, a test political scientists use to measure racial bias, among Republican primary voters in the past three GOP primaries. … "The party’s growing conservatism on matters of race and ethnicity provided fertile ground for Trump’s racial and ethnic appeals to resonate in the primaries," Tesler wrote in The Washington Post in August.
For the full story, please visit http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/9/26/13062212/steve-king-geert-wilders-frauke-petry.
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