{"id":41,"date":"2008-05-01T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T12:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/05\/detective-work-on-the-race-fac.html"},"modified":"2008-05-01T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T12:40:08","slug":"detective-work-on-the-race-fac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/05\/detective-work-on-the-race-fac.html","title":{"rendered":"Detective Work on the Race Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reprinted from The Wall Street Journal Online.<\/a><\/em>
\nNo voter wants to appear bigoted, so when asked directly if someone\u2019s race would affect their vote, almost everyone says no. Pollsters have therefore searched for more indirect measures. I noticed two particularly interesting attempts.
\nThe March Pew Research Center poll <\/a>asked voters whether it is \u201call right for whites and blacks to date each other.\u201d Nearly three-quarters of college-educated Democrats said they \u201ccompletely agreed.\u201d But among those without college \u2013 Sen. Clinton\u2019s base \u2013 44% completely agreed.
\nA new Newsweek poll<\/a> found that \u201cdownscale\u201d whites don\u2019t view Sen. Obama as elitist, yet 45% said he would \u201cfit in well with people in your local community\u201d compared with 53% for Clinton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reprinted from The Wall Street Journal Online. No voter wants to appear bigoted, so when asked directly if someone\u2019s race would affect their vote, almost everyone says no. Pollsters have therefore searched for more indirect measures. I noticed two particularly interesting attempts. The March Pew Research Center poll asked voters whether it is \u201call right…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nDetective Work on the Race Factor - Steven Waldman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/05\/detective-work-on-the-race-fac.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Detective Work on the Race Factor - Steven Waldman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Reprinted from The Wall Street Journal Online. No voter wants to appear bigoted, so when asked directly if someone\u2019s race would affect their vote, almost everyone says no. Pollsters have therefore searched for more indirect measures. I noticed two particularly interesting attempts. The March Pew Research Center poll asked voters whether it is \u201call right…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/05\/detective-work-on-the-race-fac.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Steven Waldman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-05-01T12:40:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"swaldman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Detective Work on the Race Factor - Steven Waldman","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/05\/detective-work-on-the-race-fac.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Detective Work on the Race Factor - Steven Waldman","og_description":"Reprinted from The Wall Street Journal Online. No voter wants to appear bigoted, so when asked directly if someone\u2019s race would affect their vote, almost everyone says no. Pollsters have therefore searched for more indirect measures. I noticed two particularly interesting attempts. The March Pew Research Center poll asked voters whether it is \u201call right…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/05\/detective-work-on-the-race-fac.html","og_site_name":"Steven Waldman","article_published_time":"2008-05-01T12:40:08+00:00","author":"swaldman","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/05\/detective-work-on-the-race-fac.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/05\/detective-work-on-the-race-fac.html","name":"Detective Work on the Race Factor - Steven Waldman","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/#website"},"datePublished":"2008-05-01T12:40:08+00:00","dateModified":"2008-05-01T12:40:08+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/#\/schema\/person\/f14bd19925fcfcd0bd7c74a678fddded"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/05\/detective-work-on-the-race-fac.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/05\/detective-work-on-the-race-fac.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/05\/detective-work-on-the-race-fac.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Detective Work on the Race Factor"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/","name":"Steven Waldman","description":"Author of 'Founding Faith'","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/#\/schema\/person\/f14bd19925fcfcd0bd7c74a678fddded","name":"swaldman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/e7f\/e7f50c10d0832a00d2b7690a72d45b5ex96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/e7f\/e7f50c10d0832a00d2b7690a72d45b5ex96.jpg","caption":"swaldman"},"description":"Steven Waldman is the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of Beliefnet. He's also the author of the Founding Faith: Politics, Providence, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America, which has been published by Random House. Before co-founding Beliefnet in 1999, Waldman was a political journalist, serving as National Editor of U.S. News & World Report and National Correspondent for Newsweek. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Review, The Atlantic, Slate, and many others.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/author\/swaldman"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}