The electorate isn't biased. Rather, party elites and donors stack the deck against women and people of color running for office.

And appointments? Lonely Dr. Joshua ...

I'm shocked ... just shocked.

The “Biased Electorate” Myth Has Been Debunked Again, by Carl Beijer (Jacobin)

The deck is stacked against women and people of color seeking political office. But it's not because of a reactionary electorate — it's because of party elites and donors.

Conventional wisdom on the liberal left holds that bias among voters is so prevalent that it creates a disadvantage at the polls for women and people of color running for office. The numbers, however, beg to differ. In “The Electability Myth,” a new study of the 2018 US election, the Reflective Democracy Campaign (RDC) has found that other groups have a slight advantage over white men among the voters — and systematic disadvantages that have historically kept them off the ballot ...