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No More ‘Great White Hopes’: Study Reports Women and Men of Color Are Just as Electable as White Men
It’s a word that trails women and people of color like a stray dog: “electability”—a word that’s become a catch-all code for nebulous concerns that certain candidates just don’t (or can’t) inspire voters to turn out at the polls as much as others. But, as a new study suggests, if those concerns are tethered to…