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- Title
Attitudes Toward Blacks in the Obama Era.
- Authors
Pasek, Josh; Stark, Tobias H.; Krosnick, Jon A.; Tompson, Trevor; Keith Payne, B.
- Abstract
Much published research indicates that voting behavior in the 2008 presidential election and evaluations of Barack Obama were importantly influenced by anti-Black sentiment. Various psychological theories made opposing predictions as to whether exposure to the first Black president during his first term would strengthen or weaken the alignment between general attitudes toward African Americans and evaluations of the president in particular. Using data from national surveys conducted in 2008, 2009–2010, and 2012, we compared the associations of prejudice toward Blacks with presidential approval in those years and with electoral choices in 2008 and 2012. As predicted by theories of individuation, attitudes toward Blacks became increasingly disconnected from evaluations of Mr. Obama and from people’s electoral choices over time. However, levels of prejudice against Blacks rose between 2008 and 2012. Because of this increased prejudice and the diminishing individual-level influence of attitudes toward Blacks on electoral choices, prejudice toward Blacks seems to have reduced Mr. Obama’s vote share in the 2012 election by about the same extent as in 2008.
- Subjects
UNITED States; VOTER attitudes; RACIAL &; ethnic attitudes; OBAMA, Barack, 1961-; UNITED States presidential election, 2008; UNITED States presidential election, 2012; AFRICAN American social conditions; UNITED States elections; RACISM; PREJUDICES; RACE relations in the United States -- Political aspects; VOTER turnout; ELECTIONS &; society
- Publication
Public Opinion Quarterly, 2014, Vol 78, Issue S1, p276
- ISSN
0033-362X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/poq/nfu012