http://www.proudprogressive.org/blog/2008/02/01/clinton-or-obama/ A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:27:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 http://www.proudprogressive.org/blog/2008/02/01/clinton-or-obama/#comment-222 A.S. Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:19:24 +0000 http://www.proudprogressive.org/blog/2008/02/01/clinton-or-obama/#comment-222 Here's a possible reason why Obama might be more electable than Clinton. Black men got the right to vote in the U.S. decades before women got the vote. White men were more open to having black men vote than having women vote. We are therefore probably more likely to have a black male president before we get a female president. I'm not saying that it should be this way, only that this would follow the trend of our history. Therefore, if we want to choose the democrat most likely to beat a republican, it would make sense to vote for Obama. Here’s a possible reason why Obama might be more electable than Clinton. Black men got the right to vote in the U.S. decades before women got the vote. White men were more open to having black men vote than having women vote. We are therefore probably more likely to have a black male president before we get a female president. I’m not saying that it should be this way, only that this would follow the trend of our history. Therefore, if we want to choose the democrat most likely to beat a republican, it would make sense to vote for Obama.

]]>