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Affirmative Action: Affirmative Action: Can Americans Afford To Support It Today' I: Introduction The current political sentiment, or public attitude, in regard to affirmative action has once again taken a turn towards greater disdain and negativity. Over the history of a multitude of affirmative action programs and campaigns in this country, public sentiment has fluctuated through varying levels of acceptance and rejection. While political leaders, including the president, seemingly believe the public’s opinion is strictly opposed to affirmative action programs, in fact, during different temporal periods the public has been in high support of such programs (Steeh and Krysan 1996). The misunderstandings involved with public opinion towards affirmative action have long made the job of tracking the public’s general attitude on this topic more difficult. The findings also suggest that people’s opinion change depending on the manner in which they are asked; this problem adds to the confusion of deciphering the public’s actual opinions (Krysan 1998). Changing opinions regarding affirmative action will be focused on in this research project looked at through the context of the fiscal climate within the nation, and its direct correlation to the approval rating of affirmative action programs. As the economy worsens the programs, action, affirmative, respondents, survey, public, opinion, economic, support, should, been, study, towards, time, while, responses, krysan, decision, data, socioeconomic, race, pool, number, court, case, research, represented, racial, individuals, application, years, through, though, qualitative