Paul Ryan – Does it make any difference to the election or the electorate if Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s running mate, had a black girlfriend in college? That was the question probed by Kelli Goff in an interesting essay on The Root. Ryan reportedly revealed the hue of this past love in a 2005 [...]
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