Many were able to correctly name and identify major candidates like California’s Sen. Kamala Harris and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Last week, when former vice president Joe Biden launched his 2020 campaign, he jumped into the largest Democratic primary field ever, and raised the stakes on the question of who Democrats deem “electable” enough to unseat President Trump.
In mid-April, before Biden entered the race, Yahoo News interviewed a random sample of New Yorkers as they walked through Washington Square Park — in Greenwich Village, near New York University — asking them to identify photographs of the Democratic candidates and testing them on the pronunciation of their names.
Story continues“Names have a lot of cultural significance,” said another New Yorker. “Especially when it’s a person of color and you can’t get their name correctly, it’s kind of dehumanizing.” “Isn’t that Bezos? He looks like him,” she asked, noting the resemblance of their bald heads. “Is his last name Cook or his first name Tim?”
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