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Look .... not that I have anything against women running for president .... but .... if we haven't learned twice from the shitty decision making of the voter population, 2028 is not the year to test if the US can get its first woman as president AGAIN. I'm going to chalk this up as democrats just can't stand to win and the media needs to stop encouraging that line of thinking. We'll be lucky if there even is a 2028 election. Also, did everyone forget AOC is not in the good graces of kingmaker Pelosi?
I agree let's give the average american what he wants and bring Brandon back. It's not joever yet!
Clinton and Harris both lost because they sucked, not because they were women.
Voters used their feelings rather than looking at who was fit for the job. You can say Harris sucked all day long, at the end of the day, of the two candidates, she was more fit. And yes, maga ran that as part of their smear campaign with dumb shit like because she was a woman "her heightened woman emotions would cloud her judgement." There were literal ads. This was used to help persuade a good chunk of 75 million fucking idiots to elect someone who is clearly a fucking moron and has dementia. Nobody should base their vote on whats between the candidates' legs, but clearly a good portion of voters did.
This is the realistic take. Racism is bad enough in this country that we just barely squeaked Obama into office as a half-black man. Misogyny is way more widespread. Spend about 5 minutes in an online game chat room and you'll see what I mean. Not to mention the manosphere/blackpilling are actually growing movements rather than shrinking.
I think AOC is great and that she would make a fine administrator, but let's keep her in congress for now where she can still do a lot of good for the progressive cause. There's no need to put someone who the right has spent years building up as the antichrist boogeyman as the frontrunner when we already have a poor track record of prominent female politicians losing the presidential race to the most embarrassingly unqualified candidate in American history.
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Obama won in 2008 with 52.9% of the popular vote, a larger % of the popular vote than any President since.
Well, consider me corrected. I remember that race being much closer than it was. I guess I forgot that he came off of the G.W. Bush presidency so it makes sense that there was a huge shift towards the left.
This is what I was saying to the poster above, that thinks there'd be no problem with a woman running. They clearly haven't been outside or even in 1 gaming lobby or they'd know how bad it is.
Pelosi looks like she's one stiff gust of wind from keeling over. Fingers crossed.