Is America ready for a president who is married to someone of a different race?

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Yes.  As far as Obama doing worse if he married a white woman.  Fact of the matter is the only people who would care or get bent out of shape over such a thing, wouldn't be voting for Obama under any circumstances anyway.

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Having a white wife would've helped Obama more than it hurt it's ridiculous to think it would have cost him the nomination.

Can you,or someone else who agrees with you, please explain why you think that Obama would've done better if he was married to a white women?

Also, here are some interesting graphs:

A large majority of Americans approve of marriages between blacks and whites:


But a plurality of people in Mississippi think that interracial marriages should be ILLEGAL:


Amazing how in this day and age some people can be this backwards.

Just to note, it is a plurality of self identified Republicans in Mississippi, not people.  It's not exactly shocking that there is a large number of very backwards Republicans in Mississippi.

The same is true for Alabama (shocking....).  The law banning interracial marriage actually remained on the books (though not enforced), well after Loving V Virginia.  They had a vote to remove it in 2000, and around 40% voted to keep the law on the books, looking at the counties that had the most opposition to interracial marriage shouldn't surprise anyone.....