liberals more likely to favor targeted killings once they know it’s Obamas policy

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http://www.salon.com/2013/02/19/targeted_killings_ok_if_obama_does_it/

Civil libertarians have worried that some of President Obama’s comparatively hawkish national security policies are silencing “liberal” Democrats who would have opposed such measures under President Bush or another Republican. Now there’s new evidence that Obama’s support for such policies isn’t just silencing them — it’s winning them over.

That’s the finding of new research by Brown University political scientist Michael Tesler, who studies what he calls the “racialization” of political issues in the age of Obama: mainly, the way voters’ attitudes about race can make them more or less likely to support policies once they know those policies are supported by Obama. Last year he made headlines with an American Journal of Political Science article about the way racial attitudes shaped opinions on the Affordable Care Act.
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Interesting that somebody actually found it in a study. Normally these are just the kind of things that get accused by republicans.
 
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