Obama and the White Vote
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6340754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Todd Donovan (0000-0001-6098-5161, Western Washington University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 863-874 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1065912910373556 |
| OpenAlex | W2070466850 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 35 |
This article draws on the racial threat thesis to test if white voters who lived in areas with larger African American populations were less receptive to Barack Obama in 2008. Racial context is found to structure white voters’ evaluations of Obama and, thus, affect where the Democrats gained presidential vote share over 2004. The overall Democratic swing was lower in states where a white Democrat (Hillary Clinton) had more appeal to white voters than Obama. Obama increased the Democrats’ share of the white vote, but gains were associated with positive evaluations of Obama among white voters in places with smaller African American populations. The likelihood that a white voter supported Obama also decreased as the African American population of the respondent’s congressional district increased. The results are relevant to discussions of the future of the Voting Rights Act and to conceptions of a “postracial” America
Affect (linguistics · Appeal · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Presidential election · Presidential system · Respondent · Sociology · Voting · Voting behavior · White (mutation · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,93 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |