Race, gender, age, disabilities and such will always affect a large percentage of the population, even though it shouldn’t.
And there will always be statistics lumping people into categories, that’s what statistics are all about, categorizing stuff.
So while stats are often inaccurate and also unfair because they can be as biased as the people creating them, they are still an indicator of something.
I still think that voters in general just don’t have facts available to base decisions on. So they base them on likes and dislikes.
If I were running for office, I would count on the general intelligence of people and present facts in an easy to understand manner instead of all this rhetoric. Not too many facts surfaced in the elections I have watched, other than mud slinging items.