Journal article
Obama's Missed Landslide: A Racial Cost?
PS, political science & politics, Vol.43(1), pp.69-76
01/15/2010
DOI: 10.1017/S1049096510990616
Abstract
Barack Obama was denied a landslide victory in the 2008 presidential election. In the face of economic and political woe without precedent in the post-World War II period, the expectation of an overwhelming win was not unreasonable. He did win, but with just a 52.9 percentage point share of the total popular vote. We argue a landslide was taken from Obama because of race prejudice. In our article, we first quantify the extent of the actual Obama margin. Then we make a case for why it should have been larger. After reviewing evidence of racial bias in voter attitudes and behavior, we conclude that, in a racially blind society, Obama would likely have achieved a landslide.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Obama's Missed Landslide: A Racial Cost?
- Creators
- Michael S Lewis-Beck - University of IowaCharles Tien - Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNYRichard Nadeau - University of Montreal
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- PS, political science & politics, Vol.43(1), pp.69-76
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; New York, USA
- DOI
- 10.1017/S1049096510990616
- ISSN
- 1049-0965
- eISSN
- 1537-5935
- Number of pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/15/2010
- Academic Unit
- Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984025550202771
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