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How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian.<\/p>\n

And yet, here it is: Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney, an African-American and a white Mormon, representatives of two groups and that have endured oppression to carve out a place in the United States. How much progress has America made against bigotry? By November, we should have some idea.<\/p>\n

Perhaps mindful of the lingering power of prejudice, both men soft-pedal their status as racial or religious pioneers. But these things \u201cwill be factors whether they\u2019re explicitly stated or not, because both Obama and Romney are minorities,\u201d said Nancy Wadsworth, co-editor of the anthology \u201cFaith and Race in American Political Life.\u201d Mormons<\/a> are 1.7 percent of the U.S. population, according to the Pew Research Center; African-Americans are 12.6 percent<\/p>\n

\u201cAmericans like to obsess about ways that people are different,\u201d said Wadsworth, a political science professor at the University of Denver. Voters of all types say that a candidate\u2019s race or religious beliefs should not be cause for bias, \u201cbut Americans are really conflicted about this, and they talk out of both sides of their mouth.\u201d
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