{"id":36447,"date":"2014-05-19T13:55:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T13:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36447"},"modified":"2014-05-19T13:55:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T13:55:54","slug":"beyond-the-one-drop-rule-views-of-obamas-race-and-voting-intention-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36447","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the One-Drop Rule: Views of Obama\u2019s Race and Voting Intention in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.15195\/v1.a6\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Beyond the One-Drop Rule: Views of Obama\u2019s Race and Voting Intention in 2008<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociologicalscience.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sociological Science<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociologicalscience.com\/browse-issue\/volume%201\/march(2)\/#wpfb-cat-4\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 1, March 2014<\/a>\u00a0(2014-04-17)<br \/>\npages 70-80<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.15195\/v1.a6\" target=\"_blank\">10.15195\/v1.a6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.uconn.edu\/faculty\/cheng.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Simon Cheng<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Connecticut<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.uconn.edu\/faculty\/weakliem.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>David Weakliem<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Connecticut<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We use data from a national survey of likely voters conducted before the 2008 election to study the association between <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama\u2019s<\/a> perceived racial identity and voters\u2019 choices. Voters who saw Obama as biracial were substantially more likely to vote for him, suggesting that many Americans regard a biracial identity more favorably than a black identity. The relationship was stronger among Democrats than among Republicans. The potential implications of our findings for the future of race in American politics are discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociologicalscience.com\/download\/volume%201\/march(2)\/Beyond%20the%20One%20Drop%20Rule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Beyond the One-Drop Rule: Views of Obama\u2019s Race and Voting Intention in 2008 Sociological Science Volume 1, March 2014\u00a0(2014-04-17) pages 70-80 DOI: 10.15195\/v1.a6 Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut David Weakliem, Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut We use data from a national survey of likely voters conducted before the 2008 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,394,20],"tags":[17329,17328,233,17327],"class_list":["post-36447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-david-l-weakliem","tag-david-weakliem","tag-simon-cheng","tag-sociological-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36447","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=36447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}