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Having a black or female (or black female) president is a pretty established trope in the world of near-future fiction. That said, having elected a black president doesn't mean we're living in an episode of 24 and it doesn't mean that racism is over. Historically, pollsters have tried to gauge the effect of racism in political campaigns through, what else, the use of polls. Now, a new study uses Google to try and tease out a greater level of accuracy polls could never achieve.