• 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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