After the 2008 election, Nate Silver looked at the statistics of how people voted for president. He had one question, "How does race affect votes?". He found some interesting, but not too surprising, conclusions. People from areas of less diversity and less education tended to say that race was a factor in their choice of president. While you can't say that everyone who voted for or against Obama did so due to his race, at least some people did. Throughout his presidency, some people are still uncomfortable with a black president.
One person suggested that it might not be his blackness, but his mixed ancestry which has caused this racial animosity. A recent poll from Mississippi found that a large percentage of people thought interracial marriages should be banned. Overall it is a sad sad indictment of our culture that we still get this worked up over race. And that it can affect our voting.
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