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Race; Posted on: 2008-05-24
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A new NEWSWEEK Poll underscores Obama's racial challenge.
A Measure of Racism
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By Jonathan Darman
Even as he closes in on the Democratic nomination for the presidency, Sen.
Barack Obama is facing lingering problems winning the sup****t of white
voters--including some in his own party. In a new NEWSWEEK Poll of
registered
voters, Obama trails presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain 40
percent to 52 percent among whites. Sen. Hillary Clinton, Obama's
challenger
for the Democratic nomination, also trails McCain among white voters but
by a
smaller margin, 44 percent to 48 percent.
Among voters overall, however, Obama fares better, tying McCain 46 percent
to
46 percent in a hypothetical match-up. (That's down slightly, within the
margin of error, from the last NEWSWEEK Poll, conducted in late April, in
which Obama led McCain 47 percent to 44 percent). In that contest, he is
boosted by a strong showing among nonwhites, leading McCain 68 percent to
25
percent (Clinton leads McCain 65 percent to 25 percent among nonwhites).
But
even this result shows some of the electoral challenges facing Obama in a
year
when Democrats generally appear to hold an electoral advantage--boasting a
15
point advantage in generic party identification over Republicans, 53
percent
to 38 percent. Clinton fares slightly better against McCain: 48 percent to
44
percent (within the margin of error).
She enjoys this slight edge even though Obama leads Clinton 50 percent to
42
percent as the choice of registered Democrats for the party's nomination.
Clinton's white sup****t is unusually high: at a comparable point in the
2004
election, Democratic nominee John Kerry received the sup****t of 36 percent
of
white voters, compared to George W. Bush's 48 percent, and in June of
2000,
Bush led Al Gore 48 percent to 39 percent.
Obama's race may well explain his difficulty in winning over white voters.
In
the NEWSWEEK Poll, participants were asked to answer questions on a
variety of
race-related topics including racial preferences, interracial marriage,
attitudes toward social welfare and general attitudes toward
African-Americans. Respondents were grouped according to their answers on
a
"Racial Resentment Index."
Continue...
http://www.newsweek.com/id/138456?GT1=43002
News Source: Newsweek
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