Despite then candidate Obama’s calls to break the “racial stalemate” in 2008, the view of race relations among African-Americans has worsened under his leadership. A new Pew /USA Today poll found that the number of African-American respondents who said blacks and whites get along “pretty well” or “very well” plummeted by 12 points since 2009. More white respondents also answered in a negative way with a five-point drop since the same year.

National Review reports:

From 2007 to 2009, the number of black respondents who said blacks and whites get along “very well” or “pretty well” increased seven percentage points, to 76 percent. But since 2009, the share of black respondents who had a positive view of race relations has dropped twelve points, to 64 percent. Similarly, white respondents who thought blacks and whites got along well increased three percentage points from 2007 to 2009, but decreased five percentage points from 2009 to 2014.

The poll found a similar downward trend in black respondents’ views of the treatment of minorities by police, with 70% saying they did a poor job of treating groups equally. Only 25% of whites held the same view. NRO also highlights that Democrats had a generally more critical view of police conduct than Republicans, the high number of African-American Democrats certainly impacting those results.

Despite findings such as these, many left-leaning media outlets are still holding out hope for Obama to break the country’s “racial stalement” as his Hope and Change campaign had promised in 2008. Just two weeks ago in the midst of the Ferguson violence, the L.A. Times maintained that Obama “remains the American best positioned to explain each side to the other, to try to seed understanding among those still listening.” But as many are finding, it’s a long fall back to earth and the landing is a far cry from the lift-off.