Race, income and voting access
The location and the physical aspects of the electoral process itself — the buildings, equipment, and election workers — can make it more difficult to vote in some communities, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Political empowerment fading for black Americans in the age of Obama
Hailed by some as the “end of race as we know it” and
the beginning of a “post-racial” America, the 2008 election of Barack
Obama sparked a measurable bump in feelings of political empowerment
among black Americans. But those sentiments have faded considerably over
the last year or so, according to a new analysis of political survey
data, with the sharpest declines in perceived political power coming
among blacks who identify themselves as conservatives or “born again”
Christians.