“I wonder what percentage of men (any color) or women, for that matter, would find it very difficult to vote for a woman for president?”
I’d like to see the stats that support this hypothesis:
The vast majority of African-Americans are voting as a block on the basis of race—promoting the first(major)black American candidate. In comparison, women’s votes are far more divided on the basis of party their identity (democratic, republican etc), whether they agree with a candidate’s views and like the candidate’s record and character.
In other words: are women less likely to vote on the basis of gender identity, and African Americans more likely to vote on the bases of race identity?.
Although, its quite understandable why African Americans would want to promote a member of their community into the top office; they should think long and hard about the political repercussions. Will politicians assume that “character, record and content” no longer matters to the black community. Will political leaders assume that as long as the right visual image is paraded by in commercials that the black community will blindly support the Democratic party? This is how a group of people can be irrelevant.
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