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Originally Posted by Foxglove  I am finding this fascinating but I think it is a little early to predict winning candidates for the presidency. |
Way way too early for that. Aim of the thread is to pick the nominees only.
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Originally Posted by pANDAS Radio Why not? Worked for Blair & Clinton. And to a certain extent he and Hilary are also relying on the Big Brother effect. I.E. "hey, nobody black/gay/transexual/female has won this before". |
Actually, no Obama isn't all. He's been deliberately playing down the race issue through his entire campaign. When questioned about it he's replied several times that the it's not about the colour of his skin at all, but about his policies, which contrasts directly with the line taken by former candidates like Jesse Jackson, who deliberately used his skin colour to get votes.
The Republicans have been very quiet about the race issues as well, although several hardline right media figures were spreading stories about his father being a Muslim (no idea if he was or not, but Obama is a practising moderate Christian) and the fact that Obama attended a Muslim school in Indonesia for four years.
Hillary is pretty much the same. For the most part, it's commentators discussing her sex, not her. She has used her sex to try and appeal to female votes, unsucessfully in Iowa though - according to exit polls, Obama got 35% of the female vote there, while Clinton only got 30%.
