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Sep 21
2008

Obama vs. McCain -- 45 days to go. Race, age, gender are taboo in election

Posted by Thuso in votersRoland MartinRaceelection

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Roland MartinIn a CNN Commentary, Roland Martin puts race, age, and gender on the table.  We identified race as the "elephant in the room" in a previous blog.  With these observations, Martin lays out the full spctrum of biases tht might affect how we vote.

It's wonderful to talk about the economy, immigration, the war in Iraq, health care and education, but we can't be naïve to the reality that when voters go into that voting booth, they will, as one person told me during an interview, "vote with their tribe."

We are seeing remarkable bias playing strongly in this election. Exit-polling data in the