Replying to a message of Rob McCart to Bob Ackley:

 RM> Sitting up here in Canada 'once removed' from the USA, I have
 RM> to wonder a bit about what will go on down there in your next
 RM> election.

Oh, it'll be a Republicrook sweep IMO.  It doesn't matter if every single
citizen in the country stays home on election day, it'll be a Republicrook
landslide.  I hope to be proven wrong (and BTW I've never voted for a
Democrook in my life).

 RM>  I haven't looked too closely at it in a while but
 RM> earlier impressions were that most people were just about ready
 RM> to start voting Democrat again after the 'Bush junior' years..
 RM> So with a possibility of a potential easy win, what do the
 RM> Democrats do ?  Bring forth a woman and a minority as the main
 RM> candidates, as near as I can tell.

While a small minority won't vote for Obama because he's black I think that
a black could be elected president.  My preference would be Colin Powell,
though; had he resigned when Bush invaded Iraq in 2003 he'd be a shoo-in.
Hillary! has too much political baggage to be elected, even if she were a he.

 RM> I'd like to think something like that wouldn't bother me, and
 RM> I'd also expect the Northern states plus California to be a
 RM> little more elightened and liberal towards such things. But I
 RM> have a feeling the rest of the country may not be quite ready
 RM> for that big a change in the status quo considering you've
 RM> never even had a VISE President who wasn't a white male yet
 RM> if memory serves..

True.

 RM> Not that we're much different..  We did have a (non-elected)
 RM> woman Prime Minister here very briefly but I try not to blame
 RM> that disaster directly on her or her gender..

There have been successful female chief executives, Golda Meir and
Maggie Thatcher to name two.  And Catherine the Great didn't do too
badly in Russia, either.

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