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Obama is
Not Closing Racial Gap
 Americans are sharply divided
by race ahead of the first presidential election in which a black
candidate will represent a major party, a New York Times/CBS News poll
showed on Tuesday, The poll found that blacks and whites hold vastly
different views of Sen. Barack Obama, an Illinois Democrat who would be
the first black president, and are also divided on the state of race
relations in the United States, the newspaper reported.
In the survey, 83 percent of blacks had a favorable opinion of Obama, compared with 31 percent of white voters.
Obama will face John McCain, a white Republican senator from Arizona, in the November 4 presidential election.
On the status of race relations, 59 percent of black respondents
thought they were generally bad, compared with 34 percent of whites who
thought the same way.
The nationwide telephone poll of 1,796 adults showed that 39 percent of
blacks said there had been no real progress in recent years in getting
rid of racial discrimination. Only 17 percent of whites said the same
thing.
Twenty-seven percent of whites said too much had been made of problems
facing black people, while half of blacks said not enough had been made
of racial barriers faced by black people.
The poll was conducted July 7-14 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll found Obama leading McCain by 50
percent to 42 percent among registered voters nationwide. The poll also
had Obama with a 19-point lead over McCain on the economy, the issue
topping the list of voter concerns.
The poll of 1,119 adults and 971 registered voters was conducted July
10 through 13. The results had a margin of error of plus or minus 3
percentage points.
Source: Reuters
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