According to Harvard Ph.D. candidate Seth Stephens-Davidowitz’s, one can estimate how much less Obama’s share of the popular vote was in November 2008 than one would expect based on the performance of similar Democratic Party candidates in that election. He retrieves this information based on how many times racially charged epithets were searched in different parts of the United States. The study has touched off a firestorm of coverage subtly suggesting that race may also play a part in the 2012 election. Here's what voters think.
