Posted Perspectives on America's 2012 Presidential Election (part 2 of 2) - by Aberjhani

President Barack Obama standing with the Red Cross and the nation in the face of Hurricane Sandy's historic devastation. (Reuters photo by Larry Downing)

As much as many of us prefer to believe we now live in a “post-racial America,” fairly staggering evidence continues to accumulate to the contrary.

Former President Bill Clinton, Reverend Al Sharpton, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Huffington Post bloggers, and other public figures have spent  much of their time during the 2012 presidential election campaign sounding alarms against voter suppression targeting African Americans and Latinos.

These proposed types of suppression have taken the form of newly-required photo IDs, the cancellation of early voting on the Sunday before the election, the requirement of a long-term address over a given period of time, and other recently-invented criteria. Moving beyond the immediate political implications of these attempts, Clinton has asked the following painfully relevant question at various campaign engagements:

“Do you really want to live in a country where one party is so desperate to win the White House that they go around trying to make it harder for people to vote if they’re people of color, poor people or first generation immigrants?”

Racial Attitudes and the 2012 Presidential Election Moment

Among the latest evidence that we are “not there yet” where a post-racial America is concerned is a recent Associated Press Poll on the issue. According to the poll, as reported by journalists Sonya Ross and Jennifer Agiesta: 

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