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Racists for Obama Plenty of white bigots will vote for Barack Obama on Tuesday. There are some things they fear more than black people. By James Hannaham, Salon, November 3, 2008 |
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| The Post-Racial Election By Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post, November 2, 2008 |
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Obama-Inspired Black Voters Warm to Politics By Susan Saulny, The New York Times, November 1, 2008 |
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| The Known Unknowns By Bob Herbert, The New York Times, November 1, 2008 |
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| Debunking the 'Bradley Effect' By Ken Khachigian, The Washington Post, November 2, 2008 |
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| The Obama Dilemma By Wilfred M. McClay, The Wall Street Journal, October 31, 2008 |
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McCain says racism will barely affect election The Associated Press, October 30, 2008 |
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| Racial amnesia may be the cure By Anita F. Hill, The Boston Globe, October 29, 2008 |
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| What? Me Biased? By Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times, October 29, 2008 |
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| Path to racial unity divides By Sean Lengell, The Washington Times, October 29, 2008 |
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A Psychologist Helps Repackage Democrats' Message By Shaila Dewan and Robbie Brown, The New York Times, October 29, 2008 |
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| Obama Win Wouldn't End Racism -- but It Could Be Beginning of Its End By Courtland Milloy, The Washington Post, October 29, 2008 |
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| The Behavioral Revolution By David Brooks, The New York Times, October 27, 2008 |
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| Alaska's minorities feel ignored by Palin By Rachel D'oro, The Associated Press, October 18, 2008 |
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| Ugly election incidents show lingering US racism By Carey Gillam, Reuters, October 28, 2008 |
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| Gauging the Impact of Obama's Race By Gerald F. Seib, The Wall Street Journal, October 28, 2008 |
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How Obama can bridge nation's racial divide By DeWayne Wickham, USA Today, October 28, 2008 |
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| Muslims say smears against Obama hurt them, too By Dave Marcus, Newsday, October 27, 2008 |
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| Former Bradley Worker Says 'Bradley Effect' Never Existed By Kevin Canessa, Jr., Diversity Inc., October 27, 2008 |
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The York Project: Race & The '08 Vote By Michele Norris and Steve Inskeep, NPR, fall series |
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| Obama has got identity politics on the run The Democrat is winning because he is reaching across old racial and gender lines By Andrew Sullivan, The Sunday Times, October 26, 2008 |
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| US election: Slavery is still an issue Michelle Obama could be about to make a very American sort of history, says James Walvin. By James Walvin, The Sunday Telegraph, October 26, 2008 |
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Obama draws US to historic social shift The New Zealand Herald, October 22, 2008 |
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Powell Endorsement About Race and Role By Mark Impomeni, AOL News, October 21, 2008 |
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| Many think 'Bradley effect' won't hurt Obama By Leslie Fulbright, San Francisco Chronicle, October 21, 2008 |
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Debunking the Bradley Effect A polling analyst explains why he doesn't think Barack Obama's race is skewing the public-opinion surveys one way or the other. By Nate Silver, Newsweek, October 21, 2008 |
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| Despite candidates' efforts, race lurks beneath surface USA Today, October 21, 2008 |
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| McCain's GOP Powell, party loyalists and racists By Tara Wall, The Washington Times, October 21, 2008 |
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| Race Isn't the Obvious Issue You May Think By Eric Deggans, St. Petersburg Times, October 19, 2008 |
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Issue of race grows with likelihood of Obama win By Liz Sidoti, Associated Press, October 17, 2008 |
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| Who's Playing the Race Card? By Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, October 17, 2008 |
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| The race could be over, but Race isn't By P. Sainath, The Hindu, October 16, 2008 |
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Anti-Arab sentiment Both campaigns must stop stereotypes By Edward Ayoob, The Washington Times, October 16, 2008 |
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Media analyst sees racism, sexism in election coverage By Holly Jackson, The Columbia Missourian, October 14, 2008 |
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| Race, Gender and the Media in the 2008 Elections By Marcia G. Yerman, The Huffington Post, October 12, 2008 |
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| Why some blacks still might not vote for Obama By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, The Christian Science Monitor, October 16, 2008 |
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| McCain slings mud up from the low road But efforts to attack Obama on Lewis remark bounce off By Mary Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times, October 16, 2008 |
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| The Real Debate By Howard Fineman, Newsweek, October 16, 2008 |
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| Commentary: America is ready for the Obama Effect By Donna Brazile, CNN, October 16, 2008 |
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Obama supporters fear race may bring candidate down By Matthew Bigg, Reuters, October 15, 2008 |
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| In Voting Booth, Race May Play a Bigger Role By Adam Nagourney, The New York Times, October 14, 2008 |
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| Congressman John Lewis Condemns McCain Palin Racism By Christian Church, American Chronicle, October 14, 2008 |
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A Matter of Race Could Attitudes On Skin Color, Not Issues Still Decide The Presidential Contest? Experts Debate What Voters May Truly Feel By Bill Whitaker, CBS News, October 12, 2008 |
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| Issue of Race Creeps Into Campaign By Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post, October 12, 2008 |
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Race Remains Campaign Issue, but Not a Clear One By Patrick Healy, The New York Times, October 12, 2008 |
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McCain's Chilling Dance With the Dark Side By Jonathan Capehart, The Washington Post, October 10, 2008 |
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How Race Can Help Obama And why an Obama win wouldn't be a victory over racial prejudice. By Christopher Beam, Slate, October 10, 2008 |
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| How Is The Election Affecting Black Republicans? News & Notes, NPR, October 9, 2008 |
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| Voting against Obama doesn't make you a racist By Glenn Beck, CNN, October 9, 2008 |
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| Veiled racism seen in new attacks on Obama By Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, October 9, 2008 |
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How Obama quietly targets black By Ben Smith, Politico, October 6, 2008 |
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Black turnout could decide election By Alex Leary, St. Petersburg Times, October 4, 2008 |
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Blacks Forming a Rock-Solid Bloc Behind Obama By Steven A. Holmes, Washington Post, October 1, 2008 |
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Why Obama needs to fight like Ali, and not Louis By DeWayne Wickham, USA Today, September 30, 2008 | |||||
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What If Obama Loses? African-Americans thought he had no chance - then they started to believe. Now they fear defeat. By Allison Samuels, Newsweek, September 27, 2008 |
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Analysis: Palin's words may backfire on McCain By Douglass K. Daniel, Associated Press, October 6, 2008 |
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| Should Obama Fear The "Bradley Effect"? Day to Day, NPR, October 6 2008 |
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| Does Race Really Matter? By Michael A. Cohen, The New York Times, October 5, 2008 |
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| Racism Without Racists By Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times, October 4, 2008 |
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Blacks, whites show prejudices along racial divide By Ron Fournier and Errin Haines, Associated Press, September 28, 2008 |
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| Alaska's Blacks and Palin: a Strained Relationship By Linn Washington, Jr., columnist for The Philadelphia Tribune newspaper, September 27, 2008 |
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Chicago black voters feel change Barack Obama began his political career in South Side, a largely black neighbourhood of the US city of Chicago. Paul Moss visited a local church there, to ask people how important their racial identity was in the forthcoming election. By Paul Moss, BBC News, September 25, 2008 |
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| WALL: Rhetorical racism The futility of polling prejudice this election By Tara Wall, The Washington Times, September 23, 2008 |
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| Obama's rise spotlights gains in race relations By Susan Page and William Risser, USA Today, September 23, 2008 |
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Pinpoint Attacks Focus on Obama By Jim Rutenberg, The New York Times, September 23, 2008 |
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| Pollsters For McCain, Obama Discuss Gender, Race All Things Considered, NPR, September 17, 2008 |
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In Praise of Liberal Guilt It's not wrong to favor Obama because of race. By Ron Rosenbaum, Slate, May 22, 2008 |
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Poll: Views still differ sharply by race By Charles Babington, Associated Press, September 22, 2008 |
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| Barack Obama, John McCain and the Language of Race By Brent Staples, New York Times, September 21, 2008 |
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| Poll: Racial views steer some white Dems away from Obama By Ron Fournier and Trevor Tompson, Associated Press, September 21, 2008 |
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| The Push to 'Otherize' Obama By Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times, September 20, 2008 |
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| Startle Response Linked to Politics More Sensitive May Mean More Conservative, Study Finds By Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post, September 19, 2008 |
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| McCain Plays the Race Card By Karen Tumulty, Time- SwamplandBlog, September 18, 2008 |
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| Race, economy lead Michigan voters to waver on Obama By Kathy Barks Hoffman, Associated Press, September 15, 2008 |
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| The Big 'What If' The hopes of black America ride on his shoulders. But the outcome's way up in the air. By Randall Kennedy, Washington Post, September 14, 2008 |
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For Obama, Race Remains Elephant in the Room By Michael Grunwald, Time, September 15, 2008 |
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| Race -- and the race for Ohio Center-stage again, the Ohio contest between Obama and McCain may pivot on the impossible-to-handicap racial factor. By Walter Shapiro, Salon, September 15, 2008 |
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Forum sells 'Obama Waffles' with racial stereotype By Joan Lowy, Associated Press, September 13, 2008 |
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| This Is Your Nation On White Privilege By Tim Wise, September 13, 2008 |
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| What small-town America is saying about Obama In diners and mobile homes from New Mexico to North Carolina, I listened to working-class people try to make sense of a black president named Barack. By Dan Hoyle, Salon, September 12, 2008 |
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| The End of the Black American Narrative A new century calls for new stories grounded in the present, leaving behind the painful history of slavery and its consequences By Charles Johnson, The American Scholar, Summer 2008 |
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The American Debate: It's little discussed, but Obama's race may be decider By Dick Polman, Inquirer National Political, September 7, 2008 |
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Confront racism, leader tells union Issue shadows campaign for Obama, Haynes contends By Maria Sacchetti, The Boston Globe, September 2, 2008 |
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| Union leader berates members who let race influence vote Employees' federation chief acknowledges some might not vote for Obama because he is black. He says he will confront that attitude head on and 'fight our own members' to win crucial states. By Christi Parsons and Rick Pearson-Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, August 27, 2008 |
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| Union leader: Racism keeps Obama from building lead By Kevin Bogardus, The Hill, August 26, 2008 |
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| At the Convention: AFL-CIO unveils $50 million campaign for Obama Union targets workers in swing states; task complicated by 'rumors' By Neil Roland, Financial Week, August 25, 2008 |
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| The Caucasian Card: It can be tough being black in America. But the tough stuff builds character. Maybe that's why Barack Obama got this far this fast. By Anna Quindlen, Newsweek, August 25, 2008 |
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| Ohio's convention delegates not sure how voters will react to Obama, race By Mark Niquette, The Columbus Dispatch, August 24, 2008 |
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If Obama Loses Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him By Jacob Weisberg, Slate, August 23, 2008 |
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| Gay Marriage and the Black Vote By Timothy Stewart-Winter, Los Angeles Times, August 14, 2008 |
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Obama's problem with white, male voters By David Paul Kuhn, The Boston Globe, August 13, 2008 |
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| Race questions cast doubt on presidential polls: Do white people lie about their willingness to vote for black candidates? Associated Press, August 12, 2008 |
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| Is Obama the End of Black Politics? By Matt Bai, New York Times, August 6, 2008 |
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| If Elected...Delicate Obama Path on Class and Race Preferences By Rachel L. Swarns, New York Times, August 3, 2008 |
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| Running While Black By Bob Herbert, New York Times, August 2, 2008 |
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| McCain Camp Says Obama Is Playing 'Race Card' By Michael Cooper and Michael Powell, New York Times, August 1, 2008 |
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| Blog: How Race Affects Political Elections in the US VoteMeCool, July 24, 2008 |
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| First All-Women-of-Color Presidential Ticket in US History: Green Party Nominee Cynthia McKinney and Running Mate Rosa Clemente on War, Democracy and Hip Hop Interview with Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, July 21, 2008 |
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| Black. Female. Accomplished. Attacked. By Sophia A. Nelson, Washington Post, July 20, 2008 |
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| Blog: Media's name confusion over Obama DigitalJournal, July 20, 2008 |
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| Poll Finds Obama Isn't Closing Divide on Race By Adam Nagourney, New York Times, July 16, 2008 |
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| Blog: The New Yorker and Hipster Racism By A.J. Plaid, Racialicious, July 14, 2008 |
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| In Flag City USA, False Rumors are Flying By Eli Saslow, Washington Post, June 30, 2008 |
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| 3 in 10 Americans admit race bias By Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta, Washington Post, June 22, 2008 |
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| Obama Sharply Assails Absent Black Fathers By Julie Bosman, New York Times, June 16, 2008 |
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| Video: Race a factor in the Presidential elections May 19, 2008 |
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| Race and the 2008 elections By Tony Blankley, RealClearPolitics, May 14, 2008 |
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| A Fiery Theology Under Fire By Michael Powell, New York Times, May 4, 2008 |
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| Native Son By George Packer, The New Yorker, March 31, 2008 |
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| Obama and Race By Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, March 20, 2008 |
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| Video: Obama's "A More Perfect Union" Speech March 18, 2008 |
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| Lucky to Be Black? Obama Attack Costs Ferraro Campaign Job By Eric L. Hinton, Diversity Inc., March 12, 2008 |
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| Racism in ‘post-racial’ America By Uzodinma Iweala, Los Angeles Times, January 23, 2008 |
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| Black women are invisible this election season By Carol Jenkins, AlterNet, January 14, 2008 |
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| A Biracial Candidate Walks His Own Fine Line By Janny Scott, New York Times, December 29, 2007 |
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