If anything, being non-white or female helps a candidate. I know liberals like to paint the country as racist and misogynist, but that's not what I have seen at all. I think there are more people, even white males, that voted for Obama for the novelty of the first black President, than voted against him for the color of his skin. There is a lot of goodwill there. 

 

I didn't vote for him either time but I could have voted for Ben Carson if he were on the ticket. 

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