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Research that compares the use of racially charged search terms with voting patterns suggests that Barack Obama’s race lowers his chance of re-election.

 

The United States is not a ‘post-racial’ society, obviously.  This research uses  region-specific Google searches on racial ephitats to act as a proxy for regions that are most racially charged.  This graphic is a result of the research found at: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/06/can-google-predict-the-impact-of-racism-on-a-presidential-election/258322/ 

 

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