Despite tidal shifts over the past 60 years in Americans’ willingness to support a well-qualified black, female, Catholic or Jewish candidate for president to the point that these are now widely accepted, significant segments of Americans still don’t endorse candidates who are gay or lesbian, evangelical Christian, Muslim, atheist or […] Read more »
Attitudes Toward Racism And Inequality Are Shifting
… We know that racial disparities exist: By almost every measure of well-being, black people as a group in the United States fare worse than white people do. But how people feel about race and racism, particularly between black and white Americans, is complicated. … The General Social Survey (GSS) […] Read more »
In U.S., Socialist Presidential Candidates Least Appealing
As the 2016 presidential election field takes shape, more than nine in 10 Americans say they would vote for a qualified presidential candidate who is Catholic, a woman, black, Hispanic or Jewish. Less than half of Americans would vote for a candidate who is a socialist. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
Republicans Tread Carefully in Criticism of Confederate Flag
The massacre of nine African-Americans in a storied Charleston church last week, which thrust the issues of race relations and gun rights into the center of the 2016 presidential campaign, has now resurfaced another familiar and divisive question in the emerging contest for the Republican nomination: what to do with […] Read more »
Dylann Roof reportedly wanted a race war. How many Americans sympathize?
Dylann Roof has confessed to the murder of nine people at a South Carolina church Wednesday, according to officials. And one of Roof’s friends has said that Roof wanted to start a race war — the kind of sentiment that’s common in the avowed white supremacist crowd. But just how […] Read more »
Changing Views on a Female President
… The role that female candidates will play in 2016 — and probably in most future presidential campaigns — helps highlight how attitudes have changed over the last 80 years. The changes over the decades can be described in one word: gradual. But the state of opinion today, about the […] Read more »