Now that we're well under the 100-days-to-election threshold, we've seen enough of the two major-party candidates to ask this question: who will be better at improving race-relations, Trump or Clinton?
There's no getting around the fact that race has been a troublesome issue this campaign season. Police involved shootings. Shootings of police officers. Protests on the streets. Protests at campaign rallies that have at times turned violent. Trump has said he'll be the "law and order candidate." Clinton has said "the reality of systemic racism" must be addressed.
So the Atlanta Journal-Constitution polled Georgia voters and asked them whether Republican nominee Donald J. Trump or Democratic nominee or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should work at improving race relations if elected. We also asked readers if they thought race relations had improved since Jheri curls were all the rage, MTV was young, and Ronald Reagan was in the White House. For those who weren’t alive then, we’re talking about the 1980s.
Interestingly, across the political spectrum, a majority of all voters said in after-poll interviews that whoever takes up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in January, that person should make race relations a focus of their presidency. But just what does that mean? Prescriptions for addressing the race problem can be as varied as are voters.
What did Georgians suggest would-be Pres. Clinton or would-be Pres. Trump do?
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