African-Americans really like President Obama, but more and morefeel that race relations have not gotten better since he took office, anew national poll found.
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During the 2008 election, 38 percent of blacks surveyed thoughtracial discrimination was a serious problem. In the new survey, 55percent of blacks surveyed believed it was a serious problem, which isabout the same level as it was in 2000.
The poll was conducted May 16-18, in telephone interviews with 505 African-Americans and 501 whites.
Blacks and whites had differing opinions of Obama’s performance.More than 60 percent of blacks felt that Obama met their expectations,while 46 percent of whites did.
Thirty percent of blacks said Obama exceeded their expectations,compared with 16 percent of whites. Six percent of blacks said Obamadid not meet expectations, compared with 35 percent of whites.
Both blacks and whites gave similar answers to a survey questionabout whether race relations will always be a problem in the UnitedStates.
Forty-five percent of blacks answered yes, while 42 percent ofwhites said yes. Fifty percent of blacks said no, while 56 percent ofwhites said no.
The poll had a sampling error on these questions of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.