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NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll: Race Relations Have Plummeted Since Obama Took Office

by Chuck Biscuits

Jul 25, 2013 Chuck Biscuits

Excerpted from The Daily Caller: Public attitudes about race relations have plummeted since the historic election of President Barack Obama, according to a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.

Only 52 percent of whites and 38 percent of blacks have a favorable opinion of race relations in the country, according to the poll, which has tracked race relations since 1994 and was conducted in mid-July by Hart Research Associations and Public Opinion Strategies.

That's a sharp drop from the beginning of Obama's first term, when 79 percent of whites and 63 percent of blacks held a favorable view of American race relations.

Negative views on race relations have also increased substantially. According to the poll [pdf], 45 percent of whites and 58 percent African-Americans now believe race relations are very or fairly bad, compared with 2009, when only 20 percent of whites and 30 percent of blacks held an unfavorable view.

Although the NBC/WSJ survey addressed the politically fueled Trayvon Martin controversy only obliquely (asking how the acquittal of George Zimmerman in Martin's shooting death had affected respondents' views of the legal system), the survey's historical time frame — which shows the steepest declines in positives and increases in negatives coming in the last two years — suggests the firestorm over the Martin case played a role in diminishing the high solidarity between whites and blacks that was exemplified by Obama's election. Keep reading

NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll: Race Relations Have Plummeted Since Obama Took Office
http://patdollard.com/2013/07/nbcwall-street-journal-poll-race-relations-have-plummeted-since-obama-took-office/

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