David Souter Retiring, Obama gets to make first SCOTUS pick

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

Look, here's the real issue, plain as day:

Would her background be as widely-played if she were white and from Harlem, then went to Princeton and Yale?

It would get play on a social class "up from boot straps" angle. Whites who overcome poverty are often noteworthy. They may've played up her gender more, though.