March 28, 2016 10:38AM # The Good News You May Not Have Noticed in This Horrid Election Year By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) --- SHARE Michael Kinsley’s short oped “[And Now For Some Good News](http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/3710732-155/kinsley-and-now-for-some-good)” is one of the most uplifting things I’ve read in a while: > The overwhelming Democratic front-runner is a woman, yet all the questions that used to be raised about whether a woman could be president have disappeared… > > > The Democratic front-runner’s rival is a Jew, which also has not been an issue… > > > This election season has seen the president nominate a person who would be the fourth Jew (out of nine justices) on the Supreme Court. The other five seats are filled by Catholics. No fuss at all… > > > \[O\]ne of the remaining GOP candidates is Latino, as was another who recently dropped out of the race…\[Ted\] Cruz still could win the nomination. There was also a black candidate who did well with voters, but the fact that Ben Carson is African-American was simply not an issue… > > > Most encouraging of all, after an initial explosion of joy and self-congratulation, the fact that our president for the past eight years has been a black man has largely receded into the background. I plan to return to Kinsley’s op-ed when this election inevitably stoops to yet another new low. ##### Related Tags [General](https://www.cato.org/general), [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics), [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).