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Whites
Largely 'Comfortable' with
Black President
A new
Washington Post-ABC News
poll finds that 90 percent of whites in the country are "comfortable"
with a black president, while fewer whites, about two-thirds, said they
would be "entirely comfortable." The poll seeks to explore attitudes
about race as Sen. Barack Obama ramps up his historic run to become the
nation's first black president.
Just over half of
whites in the new poll called Obama a "risky" choice for the White
House, while two-thirds said his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain,
is a "safe" pick. Forty-three percent of whites said Obama has
sufficient experience to serve effectively as president, and about two
in 10 worry he would overrepresent the interests of African
Americans.
The study also found that 3 in 10
Americans admit to having a racial bias, and nearly half of all
Americans say race relations in the U.S. are in bad shape.
As for the overall presidential
contest, Obama leads in the Post-ABC poll by six percentage points
among all adults, but among those who are most likely to vote, the race
is a tossup, with McCain at 48 percent and Obama at 47 percent.
The poll was conducted by telephone June
12 through June 15 among a national random sample of 1,125 adults. The
results from the full poll have a margin of sampling error of plus or
minus three percentage points. The error margin is larger for
subgroups; it is four points among whites and seven points among
African Americans.
Source: EURWeb
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