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    17 hours ago

    They are a big issue. It’s one of the biggest influences on a political campaign for president by a black woman candidate. I’m going to copy paste from my other comment below

    Here’s an article on what I’m talking about

    When voters are presented with evidence showing that women political candidates garner just as much support as men in U.S. general elections, voters’ intentions to support women presidential candidates increased by about 3 percentage points, the researchers’ data showed

    If they aren’t shown and it’s normalized that a candidate can garner just as much political support then it’s a headwind…

    There’s also the belief I’m talking about where people say a woman can’t win, which becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. It also comes down to advertising and education (which are hamstrung by mudslinging during elections)

    There are a lot of studies like this. I could go on for quite a while.

    There’s also a double bind racial bias where black female candidates are viewed as highly competent but unsuitable for a general election.

    We theorize that one driving force is a paradox among Democratic primary voters: namely, that Black women are seen both as more liberal and less electable. Using two different survey experiments, we show that, while most Democratic primary candidates benefit from perceptions of being more liberal, this cannot be said for Black women due to beliefs that they are less likely to win in the general election.

    These issues need to be:

    A) recognized as real.

    B) dealt with through education and normalization.

    Ironically your style of comment is undermining A and B by saying none of this is real, and shutting down any conversation about potentially fixing it…

    Edit: grammar