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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost

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A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

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Way more people than that have lost in the general election (hundreds, if not thousands), including Cynthia McKinney in 2008 as the most successful black female loser, but plenty of other black women have lost the general election.

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