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Voters Divided As to Whether Women or African-Americans Face More Discrimination
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Voters are evenly divided on whether women or African-Americans are more discriminated against today. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 32% believe African-Americans face more discrimination and 31% believe women do. Thirty-eight percent (38%) are not sure.

In early April, before Hillary Clinton dropped out of the Presidential race, more voters (37%) believed African-Americans were discriminated against than women (27%).

Men and women have slightly different outlooks on the issue. Men, by a 34% to 26% margin, say African-Americans face more discrimination. The numbers among women are flipped: 34% think women are more discriminated against while 29% believe that of African-Americans. Among white women 39% think women are more discriminated against and 21% say African Americans.

Three out of four (73%) black voters believe they are more often victims of discrimination, while just 12% say women face more. Twenty-six percent (26%) of white voters say African-Americans are more discriminated against, a third (33%) believes that of women, while 41% are not sure.

Twenty-one percent (21%) of voters say they have personally witnessed racial discrimination over the past week. An identical number, 21%, say they have personally witnessed sexism.

Just 15% of white voters say they have witnessed racial discrimination, 41% of African-American voters report the same.

Just 13% of men they have witnessed sexism recently, 28% of women say the same.

Three-out-of-five voters (61%) say relations between white and black Americans are getting better, while just 14% say they are getting worse these days. Another 18% believe not much is changing. Eighty-two percent (82%) believe race relations today are better than they were back in the 1960’s, while 11% do not believe this to be true.

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Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade.

Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
June 28, 2008

Who is More Discriminated Against?

African-Americans

32%

Women

31%

Not Sure

38%

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