What a pleasure to read the following introduction to an article:
"WASHINGTON — History in the making: The first woman may well be elected president in 2008. Unless the first black, the first Mormon, the first Hispanic, the first Italian-American, the first thrice-married man or the first person over 70 is elected instead.
After 218 years and 42 presidents — all of them white and male — the field of White House hopefuls this time includes credible candidates whose race, gender, ethnicity, religion or personal history probably would have ruled them out in the past..."
Read the whole article at http://tinyurl.com/yu4e7w.
The article is not entirely positive, since polls indicate many Americans not comfortable with the choice facing them. However, the overall trend is encouraging.
Of course, so many candidates who break the mould is unfortunate for each of them as individuals - Hillary Clinton must be pretty upset at how things have turned out!
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