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Is Exposure Enough? Reducing Racial Prejudice in Candidate Evaluations

(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

When Barack Obama was elected President of the United States in 2008, many argued the historical milestone of electing a black president marked a significant turning point in American racial politics and attitudes. In a Gallup poll run at the time, more than two-thirds of Americans said that Obama’s election was either the most important advance for blacks in the past 100 years, or among the top three most important advances.

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