The situation, some political experts say, could contribute to a situation where most of the candidates vying for the presidential nomination of the nation’s most diverse political party remain white and unusually rich.
“The thing is, you can’t buy an actual election,” Brown said. “You can buy visibility, which is what these self-funded guys are doing. If you are going to get the entire country to stop buying Colgate or Crest, you are going to have to invest millions in ads, the kind that can get a candidate like Bloomberg some standing in the polls.”
Butthe standards used to cull the field did produce a 2020 Democratic presidential contender lineup far whiter than the country or the party. By 2044, just six presidential elections from now, black, Latino and Asian Americans will together make up the majority of Americans,. Right now, 88 percent of all public office holders in the United States are white, according to data gathered by the Reflective Democracy Campaign.
The party always shapes the candidate choices put before voters in a variety of subtle and overt ways, Steger said. It suggests that some candidates are more qualified, electable, palatable with reporters, big donors and important groups such as labor unions.
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