Is race a deciding factor in the upcoming presidential elections? Should it be?

Last week I asked these questions to my fellow students within the City University of New York’s, City College campus. Most of the 30 students polled seemed to feel uncomfortable answering such a question; others gave interesting responses. Overall, most of the students felt that race shouldn’t be a factor in deciding which candidate the nation puts into the Whitehouse. These answers forced me to think more deeply into why it shouldn’t be and I couldn’t help but find myself thinking that people didn’t say what they truly felt and that these students seemed to stray away from answering the real question: Is race a deciding factor?