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After a 217-year stride of major presidential nominees, who were without exception, white and male, the 2008 crusade may present voters with a novel selection.
This year’s election has been widely discussed in both the press and the media, as a result of two candidates’ and their startling backgrounds. Barak Obama, the senator from Illinois, is a native of Kenya who spends this weekend exploring a presidential bid in New Hampshire and Hilary Clinton, the first woman to represent New York in the senate, calls to supporters in Iowa. Despite their current popularity in the polls, the question still remains: are Americans prepared to elect an African American or a woman as president of the United States? Or, to look at it from the viewpoint of Democrats ravenous for victory in 2008, is the nation more likely to vote for a female or an African American as president? Being that this is the first time since the 1928 election that there is neither an incumbent president, nor an......

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