Post-Obama race relations: Most hopeful

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With the election of Barack Obama, the first African American to serve as president, an overwhelming majority of Americans believed that race relations in the United States would improve.

Most still do.

But less than half -- 41% -- of those surveyed say relations have improved since Obama’s election in November 2008, the Gallup Poll has found -- and one in five of those surveyed say relations have gotten worse.

Still, ‘61%, nearly as high as the 70% seen in November 2008, believe race relations will improve ‘in the years ahead’ because of Obama’s presidency,’ Gallup’s Lydia Saad reports on the findings of the Oct. 16 to 19 survey.

Read more on the Obama and race relations poll.

-- Mark Silva