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Category Archives: Race & Ethnicity

Age, Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Competition in the 2008 Election

To state that the 2008 presidential election was historic is, of course, now a bit passé.  The election, however, was historic.  Not only did 2008 witness the first African-American and female candidates with a legitimate chance of winning the presidency (and the first woman on the national Republican ticket), the American electorate, in fact, elected [...]