{"id":29826,"date":"2013-03-25T03:03:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T03:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29826"},"modified":"2013-03-25T03:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T03:03:56","slug":"race-religion-collide-in-2012-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29826","title":{"rendered":"Race, Religion Collide in 2012 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessewashington.com\/race-and-religion-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">Race, Religion Collide in 2012 Campaign<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ap.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press<\/a><br \/>\n2012-05-05<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessewashington.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Washington<\/a><\/strong>, National Writer, Race and Ethnicity<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rzollAP\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Zoll<\/a><\/strong>, National Religion Writer<\/p>\n<p>How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, here it is: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> vs. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitt_Romney\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a>, an African-American and a white Mormon, representatives of two groups and that have endured oppression to carve out a place in the United States. How much progress has America made against bigotry? By November, we should have some idea.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps mindful of the lingering power of prejudice, both men soft-pedal their status as racial or religious pioneers. But these things &#8220;will be factors whether they&#8217;re explicitly stated or not, because both Obama and Romney are minorities,&#8221; said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.du.edu\/ahss\/polisci\/facultystaff\/wadsworth_nancy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Wadsworth<\/a>, co-editor of the anthology &#8220;Faith and Race in American Political Life.&#8221; Mormons are 1.7 percent of the U.S. population, according to the Pew Research Center; African-Americans are 12.6 percent<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Americans like to obsess about ways that people are different,&#8221; said Wadsworth, a political science professor at the University of Denver. Voters of all types say that a candidate&#8217;s race or religious beliefs should not be cause for bias, &#8220;but Americans are really conflicted about this, and they talk out of both sides of their mouth.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessewashington.com\/race-and-religion-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race, Religion Collide in 2012 Campaign The Associated Press 2012-05-05 Jesse Washington, National Writer, Race and Ethnicity Rachel Zoll, National Religion Writer How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian. And yet, here it is: Barack Obama vs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,820,20],"tags":[2822,2823,9240,14178,14177,8569],"class_list":["post-29826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-religion","category-usa","tag-associated-press","tag-jesse-washington","tag-mitt-romney","tag-nancy-wadsworth","tag-rachel-zoll","tag-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}