Opinions regarding President Obama were examined using an 11-item instrument (see Table 2) based upon questions created by Waismel-Manor and Stroud . This instrument assessed participants’ impressions of Barack Obama’s trustworthiness, competence, honesty, warmth, efficacy, intelligence, fairness, considerateness, peacefulness, and generosity using 6-point Likert scales (greater values indicated higher levels of each construct). Two versions of this instrument were utilized in the study. On one version, President Obama’s middle name was explicitly stated in the instrument instructions as well as in the text of each question. In the other version, his middle name was omitted completely. Because responses to all 10 Likert scale items were highly correlated for both versions (Cronbach’s alphas ≥ .96), responses to all 10 items were averaged to obtain a measure of participants’ overall opinion of President Obama. The instrument included additional categorical item examined participants’ views regarding President Obama’s religious affiliation.