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Misdirection Play, “Electability” Dept. 0

Writing at Psychology Today Blogs, Dylan Selterman suggests that arguments about which candidate for elected office may be more “electable” are, at best, pointless musings on the undefinable and, at worst, Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes for prejudice and bigotry.

Methinks his piece is worth a read. After all, many persons considered our current pestilen to have been “unelectable” . . . .

Here’s a snippet:

In the 2008 primaries, plenty of people called Barack Obama ‘unelectable,’ but many of us saw this claim for what it really was: a coded message to dampen support for an African American candidate in a country with a long history of racism. Of course, Obama went on to win 2 terms as President by defeating his white Republican opponents, and both victories were by an unquestionable margin.

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