| flagship said: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/21/emails.race.gender/index.html Well apperently you're not the only pissed reader. |
It looks like a lot of people either completely failed to understand the story or failed to realize what a big part of this country is really like. For a lot of people, it's a huge symbol of progress that they *can* vote for someone their own race or their own gender. Not everyone can simply jump past that. CNN is taking a pragmatic look at a culture that you may not be capable of understanding simply because you lack the experience to understand it.
As good as things sound -- more equality in candidates -- these issues *will* be significant issues for the democratic party to deal with when it's time to affect how people vote in the booth. We're obvserving that who people say they'll vote for and who they vote for can be two different things, and this will be a much more significant when it comes to the presidental race.
