Seeing Ourselves in Obama Poll Numbers

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You'd think it would be a simple question: How popular is Barack Obama?

And you'd think it would have a simple answer: According to a recent Gallup poll, the president's approval rating stands at 49 percent, the first time it's slipped to less than half. Of course, Obama -- you may have heard this somewhere -- is our first African- American president and it is a reliable truism that when race enters the picture, "simple" leaves it.

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Seeing Ourselves in Obama Poll Numbers

Hence, when you parse the Gallup numbers more closely, you discover a not-so-startling divide. It turns out that among non- white voters (meaning in this case, African-Ame...

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