Mert Wrote:
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> Is it just me, or was all the talk about
> experienced, inexperienced, black, white, male,
> female, conservative, liberal, maverick. . . just
> a media frenzy? How about the best person for the
> job, as the voter sees it?
Of course that's most important, but there have been times when minority groups wouldn't have had an iceberg's chance in hell of winning anything. Don't know your age, Mert, but I remember when female news anchors on TV were unacceptable as "not seeming authoritative," (a quote from one of the network executives,) and were allowed to do only weather reports. I remember African-Americans being hosed and having dogs set upon them because they wanted to integrate restaurants and schools. Every minority had to fight hard battles, one little step at a time, to become acceptable in all kinds of jobs.
And it's naive to think that bigotry has ceased to exist. We've made a lot of progress in 40 years, but some would still not vote for a woman or African-American or Latino or gay person just because of who they are. I don't want to get political past this, because this is not the place.