In recent weeks, President Obama has taken to making direct appeals to young voters in an effort to raise the prospects of Democratic candidates around the country. It’s a strategy that would appear at the outset to hold some promise. … However, the generational affinity that millennials demonstrate towards the […] Read more »
Southern Evangelicals: Dwindling—and Taking the GOP Edge With Them
Midterm elections are all about turning out base constituencies. Over the last few decades, there have been few more reliable voters for Republicans than white evangelical Protestants. This year, however, GOP candidates may be getting less help from this group—not because white evangelical Protestants are becoming less supportive or less […] Read more »
Impacting the white electorate in Louisiana
A new Democracy Corps survey of likely white voters in Louisiana shows that while Mary Landrieu is in a difficult position and most likely trailing slightly, the race can be moved and Landrieu has a path to achieving the level of white support that is required to win a runoff […] Read more »
California: Police in our community
USC Dornsife/LA Times Poll: Most Californians don’t feel mistreated by police, but believe others have been unfairly targeted Read more »
The Role of Government in Race Relations Today
What should the role of government be in the arena of race and race relations in the U.S. today? This question has moved into the national conversation again after the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri. … A review of our data from last summer’s major Minority Rights and Relations poll […] Read more »
When Whites Just Don’t Get It
Many white Americans say they are fed up with the coverage of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. A plurality of whites in a recent Pew survey said that the issue of race is getting more attention than it deserves. … Indeed, a 2011 study by scholars at […] Read more »