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Bias. Prejudice. Favoritism. Those are the issues that we, the people of the United States of America, have to deal with right now in regards to the Presidential elections. This election is not entirely about what these three people stand for and the decisions they claim they will make once elected, but more so about their skin color and gender. The US elections for president should never be about what's on the outside, and yet that's what it is about this year. How?

We have conflict with our African-American Obama and woman Hillary Clinton, both Democrats. Normally I would find it very amusing that the fact that Hillary Clinton is a woman is so controversial. It's a simple fact it's not as if she's an alien (from outer space, not Mexico, I mean). And normally I would find it well, not amusing that Obama is African-American and that it's so disputed (I can just imagine the NAACP hunting me down if I wrote that), but again, nothing too otherworldly. But those simple characteristics that they obtain are so important for this race, for some reason.

This is where it truly becomes a battle of the sexes, a battle of the races. It works both ways in the minds of Americans: for women, for African-Americans, or against women, against African-Americans. Of course, no one's going to be as stupid as to say, "Oh, I don't want that Obama. He's a nee-grow." They'd have half the country chasing them down with clubs and pitchforks for being so racist. Although, of course, it's fine for people to speak out boldly against women. "We don't want no woman president, she'll kill our US of A. My woman can't even launder mah socks properly!" Although then you might have all the NOW (National Organization for Women) hitting you over the head with large, ugly carpet bags.

Enter bias, center stage. I believe that this presidential campaign is less about being against candidates than it is about being for them. This is where African-Americans and women across the nation are thinking twice about their choice for president. Some women might normally stand by what McCain stands for, or perhaps Obama. But then they hesitate. A woman like them might do some good as Presidentafter all, women are more sensible, less hasty, etc. In the end, some of those women will shake their heads and stand by McCain or Obama. But some will change their minds and vote for Hillary. Will one vote really make such a difference to this election? It's so close between the two Democrats, it actually might.

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