Race, Gender, and Age – the 2008 Presidential Race
Posted Friday, February 29, 2008
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Download MP3No matter which candidate ends up in the Oval Office next November – it will be a “first.” It’s down to a woman, an African American, or the oldest president ever to assume office. Issues aside, will the basic facts of age, race and gender influence your vote? How important is it to have a woman or a black man in the White House? And how old is too old? Breaking glass ceilings, tearing down walls, combating ageism on The Sound of Ideas.
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Government/Politics, Aging/The Elderly
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Barbara Danforth, Executive Director of the YWCA of Greater ClevelandAmbassador Derek Shearer, Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy, Office of Global Affairs, Occidental College
Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Ohio’s 11th Congressional District
Additional Information
Gender Gap and Voting Behavior, CAWP, Eagleton Institute of Politics - Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyDerek Shearer's Blog on The Huffington Post, Sex, Race and Presidential Politics
Obama's Age Gap: Is It Race? CBS's Dick Meyer Says Older Americans Have So Far Proven Unwilling To Vote For Barack Obama
Politics of Sex and Race, By Suzanne Fields
Race, age, gender, religion and the presidency, Cleveland.com
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