Bi-Polar Bear wrote:I've learned how important the distribution of genes is in this election.... a couple of differences in Baracks genetic make up and he would look like this [..]
and then the issue of race would not even have come up.... which may or may not have effected the outcome of the primary....
Yes. Considering that the exit polls pretty consistently show that voters for whom race was an important factor in their choice have gone to
Hillary by significant margins, I suppose it would have made a difference if race had never been a part of this race.
There's a lot of white people out there who said race was a factor in their vote, and they've largely gone to Hillary. Been more of those than black and white people combined who said they voted partly on race and chose Obama. So just going on the data, it seems that a white Obama would have won more easily...
(And that's just talking about the people who actually
admitted in those exit polls that they voted partly based on race. Think about the people who didn't. I bet there's more white folk out there who refused to admit that they voted against Obama based on his race, than there were people who voted
for him based on race and refused to admit it...)
