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As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office, far fewer black and white Americans say they view racism as "a big problem" in American society than said so in mid-1996, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
(Jan. 19)
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If the 2008 presidential election were being held today, for whom would you vote? (Among likely voters)
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60%
of moderates voted for Obama, the highest proportion a Democrat has won in modern exit polling.
54%
of veterans voted for McCain.
NOTE: Movable voters are those who said they could change their minds or have yet to select a candidate.
SOURCE: This Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll is a four-night rolling average of telephone interviews with a random national sample of approximately 1,900 likely voters. Interviews are conducted on landline and cellular telephones. The poll started on Oct. 16 and runs through Nov. 3. The results from the full poll have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. Error margins for subgroups are larger.
The 2008 electorate was unquestionably a more Democratic group than had shown up at the polls in years, but does that change mean the nation's political views have shifted leftward?(Nov. 13)
SOURCE: National Election Pool exit poll conducted by Edison/Mitofsky.
President Obama blasted Wall Street bankers after a report that employees of financial companies in N.Y. collected nearly $18.5 billion in bonuses in 2008. As Chip Reid reports.
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