Poll: Heightened Expectations Obama Would Improve Race Relations
Sixty-five percent of black voters believe race relations will improve if Barack Obama becomes the next U.S. president, a USA Today/Gallup poll of 2,000 Americans shows.
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Monday, July 14, 2008
Sixty-five percent of black voters believe race relations will improve if Barack Obama becomes the next U.S. president, a USA Today/Gallup poll of 2,000 Americans shows.
Among demographic groups, 63 percent of Hispanics said they thought relations would improve.
Of the non-Hispanic whites, 54 percent voted Obama would better race relations.
The poll also shows that the majority of non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics do not think race relations would change if Obama loses.
Black voters seem most worried about an Obama loss with the poll showing 34 percent believe race relations would get worse.
The margin of error on the poll was 5 to 6 percent depending on the group.
A separate Gallup poll of telephone interviews from Monday shows Obama as the preferred spokesperson among blacks on racial issues, surpassing Bill Clinton and Jesse Jackson.
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