The best way to describe the public’s support for women and minorities as presidential candidates from 1936 to 2012 is that

a. it sharply increased.
b. it remained stable.
c. it fluctuated wildly, sometimes sharply increasing and then sharply decreasing for as much as a decade at a time.
d. it never exceeded 50%.


a. it sharply increased.

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