A new NBC News/Marist Polling that shows that confidence in the legal system has decreased. Meet the Press Read more »
Video: Are race relations better or worse under Obama?
Jeanne Cummings, David Ignatius, Charles Blow, and Gerald Seib discuss a new Bloomberg poll with some surprising findings on race in America under the country’s first black president. Face the Nation Read more »
Poll Shows Deep Racial Divide in Confidence in Law Enforcement
Americans are deeply split along racial lines in their level of confidence that police officers will treat white and black people equally and refrain from using excessive force, a new NBC News/Marist poll shows. In the wake of the deaths of unarmed black men in police confrontations in New York […] Read more »
Most Americans See Race Relations Worsening Since Obama’s Election
President Barack Obama had hoped his historic election would ease race relations, yet a majority of Americans, 53 percent, say the interactions between the white and black communities have deteriorated since he took office, according to a new Bloomberg Politics poll. Those divisions are laid bare in the split reactions […] Read more »
Demise of the Southern Democrat Is Now Nearly Complete
… If Mary Landrieu, a Democratic senator from Louisiana, loses re-election in Saturday’s runoff election, as expected, the Republicans will have vanquished the last vestige of Democratic strength in the once solidly Democratic Deep South. … The dramatic decline of the Southern Democrats represents the culmination of a half-century of […] Read more »
African Americans aren’t thrilled with Obama’s Ferguson response
President Obama has pointedly refused to weigh in on what happened in Ferguson, Mo., aiming not to inflame an already delicate situation. That approach, though, is not earning him his usual strong marks from his most loyal base of support: fellow African Americans. CONT. Aaron Blake, Washington Post Read more »