Social media provides more significant opportunities for female candidates to promote themselves and increase their electability in elections.
Women like congressional candidate Cori Bush from Missouri face greater obstacles than white men when trying to reach political office.
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Regina Bateson, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Women and people of color continue to appear on ballots less often than white men, and that, in part, is due to concerns by American voters that others will not view these candidates as electable.
Most people vote for the candidate they think is the most electable.
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Why do some people think that Bernie Sanders isn’t electable and Joe Biden is? Does anyone really know what makes one candidate seem electable while another doesn’t?