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A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost (lemmy.world)
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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I remember the first election I was old enough to vote in (the 2004 election) paying close attention to all the political ads I saw and, at least for that election, only the Republican ads were focused on "other guy bad, so vote me." The opposing side's ads were entirely focused on their own platform and never even mentioned the other side.