CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Poll: Racial divides persist after Obama’s historic win - Blogs from CNN.com: WASHINGTON (CNN) — A national poll released Tuesday suggests that for most African-Americans, the election of Barack Obama as president was a dream come true that they didn't think they would see in their lifetimes.
That's how 80 percent of African-Americans questioned in the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey responded; 20 percent disagreed. Among white Americans, only 28 percent called Obama's victory in the race for the White House a dream come true, with the vast majority, 70 percent, saying it was not.
The poll also suggests a racial divide among people who thought a black candidate would be elected president in their lifetimes, with 59 percent of white respondents saying yes, but only 29 percent of black respondents agreeing.
'Polls show that whites and blacks tend to have different views on the amount of racism in the U.S.' said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. 'So it's not surprising that they would have different views on the likelihood of an African-American president.'
