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FOCUS: Nate Silver | Is Electability a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? 

Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight
Silver writes: "'I'd describe myself as 'anti-anti-electability.' Electability is a problematic concept in several respects, and it can serve as an invitation to promote white men over women and minorities even though it's not really clear that white men have any sort of electoral advantage."
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