Views about race mattered more in electing Trump than in electing Obama
Views about race mattered more in electing Trump than in electing Obama
- November 22, 2016
- Michael Tesler, poli sci, via The Washington Post, Nov. 22, 2016
Michael Tesler, associate professor of political science at University of California,
Irvine, [writes]: In the first and second posts of this series, I showed that racial
attitudes became strongly connected to whether whites identified as Democratic or
Republican during Barack Obama’s presidency. That, by itself, meant that racial attitudes
would matter a great deal in 2016 − even above the powerful impact of partisanship
itself.
For the full story, please visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/11/22/peoples-views-about-race-mattered-more-in-electing-trump-than-in-electing-obama/.
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