New poll shows President has improved race relations in U.S.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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With Obama in office, Americans' views on race relations are changing. (Flickr user jasonmckim (cc: by-nc-sa))

After President Obama was elected there was much speculation over how his election would affect race relations here in the United States. Already, just one day shy of his 100th day in office, a new poll out by CBS and our partner The New York Times reports that Americans are seeing a big difference in race relations. Sheryl Gay Stolberg is the White House Correspondent for the New York Times and she joins The Takeaway with a report on the new poll.

For more on this story, read Sheryl Gay Stolberg's article, Obama Is Nudging Views on Race, a Survey Finds, and find complete poll results on nytimes.com.

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