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    16 days ago

    She is awesome - but I hope they don’t intend on running her for president - not because I think she would do any less than a fantastic job, but because we have proven even women in this country won’t vote for a woman president. Meanwhile we have children in 5th grade drama running things. “But a woman would be emotional”.

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      1216 days ago

      Sounds like DNC logic - "Let’s not allow anyone who isn’t a right-leaning, but plausibly-moderate, cis-white person to run. We don’t want to divide our support. 🤦‍♂️

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      2316 days ago

      Honestly, I’m pretty tired of establishment telling us who we’ll vote for.

      Not very long ago America was never going to vote for a black man.

      Bernie could never beat Trump… for some reason.

      I just don’t want progressives to do the work of conservatives.

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      216 days ago

      Women candidates have struggled in the past, but it’s looking like Harris at least lost because of voter machine rigging.

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      516 days ago

      I think we need to wait and see how things shake out. If she can demonstrate broad based support then why not run her.

      If it’s only lefties who love her, then she’s not the right choice.

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        716 days ago

        I’d love to agree with you but look how it’s worked out - the two times the orange idiot has been elected he is running against ladies. It seems an insurmountable hill for the general public to be ok with a woman president

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          1316 days ago

          Was it because they were woman or because they were just the same old Democrats people were tired of? You know, the left candidates that are actually right leaning, the establishment. Trying to appeal to the other side while forgetting their own base like a parent giving all of its attention to the one child who constantly does mischief while the others feel left out.

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            416 days ago

            “Gosh im so tired of these same ol’ democrats. Better just let the guy who wants to ban all muslims and bankrupted multiple casinos, and cheats on all his wives (and sometimes beats them with epstein) take power. Easy choice!”

            -a dumb ass

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          816 days ago

          Yeah. There’s a correlation vs causation problem here that I don’t really have the answers to.

          In other words I think that’s reductive.

          Hillary was Hillary and didn’t take Trump seriously.

          Kamala was run without much planning and forethought.

          AOC might be a woman, and I take your point that may not be in her favor, but she has many virtues that may outweigh that disadvantage.

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      616 days ago

      Plenty of people voted for Hillary Clinton, despite her being Hillary Clinton. I don’t think her being a woman was the issue there.