President Barack Obama said that racial tensions may have softened his popularity among white voters in 2013, according to a story published in The New Yorker.
“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president,” Obama said in an article by David Remnick posted on the magazine’s website today. “Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because I’m a black president.”
Obama’s second term has been marked by controversies including revelations that the National Security Agency has gathered personal mobile phone data and the troubled rollout of health-insurance expansion.
Obama’s approval rating among all voters is 39 percent and his disapproval rating is 53 percent, according to a Gallup Poll conducted from Jan. 14-16.
To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Wingfield in Washington at bwingfield3@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: David Ellis at dellis5@bloomberg.net
“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president,” Obama said in an article by David Remnick posted on the magazine’s website today. “Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because I’m a black president.”
Obama’s second term has been marked by controversies including revelations that the National Security Agency has gathered personal mobile phone data and the troubled rollout of health-insurance expansion.
Obama’s approval rating among all voters is 39 percent and his disapproval rating is 53 percent, according to a Gallup Poll conducted from Jan. 14-16.
To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Wingfield in Washington at bwingfield3@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: David Ellis at dellis5@bloomberg.net
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