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Article: Mitt Romney's great trek; A large bias against a Mormon for president is the next barrier to fall in US politics.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 22, 2007
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Byline: The Monitor's View
At first, it sounds like a bad joke: What if a woman, a black, and a Mormon ran for president? Yet with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Mitt Romney running for the White House, this welcome burst of diversity in US presidential candidates is no joke.
Each of these politicians comes with enough experience, patriotism, and popular support to be taken seriously for the 2008 contest. Yet polls show a number of Americans still hold some prejudice against them simply for their sex, race, or religion.
Polls find that, while a strong minority of Americans say the US is "not ready" for a woman or black president, a vast ...