May 25, 2013

Racism Cost Obama 3 to 5% of Vote in 2008 [Study]

President Barack Obama leaves after a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House June 8, 2012 in Washington, DC.

*A new study published by a Harvard PhD student on June 9 reveals new information about the effect of racism in voting trends, notes the Hollywood Reporter. In his paper, The Effects of Racial Animus on a Black Presidential Candidate: Using Google Search Data to Find What Surveys Miss, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz concludes that “prejudice cost [...]