… While a large share of Americans embrace racial resentment and other less explicit forms of racism, the overt racism that Trump has dabbled in may be more alienating. To examine this question, I turned to the American National Election Studies (ANES) 2016 pilot survey, which asked respondents about their vote intention in a hypothetical head-to-head general election contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. …
Political scientist Jason McDaniel and I examined the four-category general election vote intention match-up question using a multinomial logistic regression model that included controls for racial attitudes, demographic characteristics, education, income, party identification and political ideology. How might Trump’s appeal to racial resentment affect his support in the general election against Clinton? CONT.
Sean McElwee (Demos Action), Salon