NEWS FLASH:The 16 Year Plan.

The US election race is getting a fair bit of coverage over here. Much more so than elections in other European countries for example.
A very obvious (and often stated) conclusion is that it is a real shame that the first female and the first black presidential candidates should be opposing each other.The scenario you quote sounds like deeply fanciful thinking on the part of delusional pundits but to my mind would be quite a good idea in practice.
Apart from virtually ensuring both the first female and black presidents it would (with any luck) kill off the republicans for a political generation.It won't happen but I wish it would.

Whoah. Calm down. I never said that they 'shouldn't' in the sense that it was wrong somehow. Just that it is a shame that it is the the first time that candidates with a realistic chance of the presidency from two different obviously under represented groups (in historical presidential terms) should be simultaneously trying to make that breakthrough.
The first female president would be a significant landmark as wouldthe first black president. The likelihood of either has become a competition between the two.
Who was the fist woman candidate and has any woman ever had a real chance at winning previously?Edited by Straggler, : No reason given.