answer? and do you think he has an advantage or disadvantage as a white male? i think his answer is really naive. the truth is that race still plays and gender both play huge impacts on the way the candidates are evaluated. look at cory booker, for instance, who has this kind of very loving, kind of mr. nice guy persona. cory booker partly understands as an african-american candidate, it s much harder to express the anger that white candidates are allowed to express because white voters would react much more negatively to that. something that barack obama had to deal with as well. race colors the way candidates are perceived in profound ways even if americans are not honest about those things. i think john delaney is just wrong here. peter beinart, good to have you. thank you. tomorrow night,on lemon is at a town hall with amy