I'm a little more skeptical/optimistic. I think Clinton and Harris each had their own bad hands to play that hurt them more than their gender but I would agree sexism is a political force/headwind.
I think the Harris campaign had divisive ads that really emboldened the male voters to vote for Trump in a way that the Clinton campaign didn't back in 2016.
Putting out an ad where women decide to secretly vote for Harris and don't tell their own husbands about it was one of the dumbest decisions any presidential campaign has ever made. I can see why men thought this was sexist.
I feel the opposite Clinton campaign made gender a front and center issue "I'm with her" where as Kamala attempted to downplay it regardless of whatever superpac came up with that ad you referenced.
тАЬIтАЩm With HerтАЭ also doesnтАЩt take into account the fact that not all women were Clinton supporters or even warming up to her. This wasnтАЩt just with women Trump supporters but certain women Bernie Sanders supporters on the far liberal side. After Bernie lost the Democratic Presidential Nomination, these voters were more inclined to voting Green and felt Jill Stein as a Green Party Presidential Candidate back in 2016 spoke about the social justice issues better for them.
That said, since Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election there have been quite a number of women Democrats being elected to office in the House, Senate and other statewide offices who have emerged as stronger and smarter in their political campaigns than what Clinton did with herтАЩs.
Don't forget that Clinton won the popular vote by over 5,000,000 votes. She "lost" only in the anti-democratic U.S. system, and with various extenuating circumstances we all know about.
I'm going to exercise caution with this as Trump was taking the steam away from the 2016 and 2024 presidential races.
A woman presidential candidate might be effective if she were a uniting figure like Barack Obama was in 2008 as long as she would bridge the divide between the polarizing sides.
Remember the circumstances under which the first Black presidential candidate won in the U.S. Trump is popular with a lot of idiots, but he brings chaos, and just as voters voted for a Black man to fix what white men had ruined almost to the point of a new Great Depression, they may well turn to a woman to fix what men ruined in the next 4 years. But either way, I don't see Democratic voters acting on the basis of anyone's sexism in our primary voting.
I could obviously be wrong, but I think it will be some time before a woman is at the top of the ticket.
I'm a little more skeptical/optimistic. I think Clinton and Harris each had their own bad hands to play that hurt them more than their gender but I would agree sexism is a political force/headwind.
I think the Harris campaign had divisive ads that really emboldened the male voters to vote for Trump in a way that the Clinton campaign didn't back in 2016.
Putting out an ad where women decide to secretly vote for Harris and don't tell their own husbands about it was one of the dumbest decisions any presidential campaign has ever made. I can see why men thought this was sexist.
I feel the opposite Clinton campaign made gender a front and center issue "I'm with her" where as Kamala attempted to downplay it regardless of whatever superpac came up with that ad you referenced.
Yeah, that makes sense.
тАЬIтАЩm With HerтАЭ also doesnтАЩt take into account the fact that not all women were Clinton supporters or even warming up to her. This wasnтАЩt just with women Trump supporters but certain women Bernie Sanders supporters on the far liberal side. After Bernie lost the Democratic Presidential Nomination, these voters were more inclined to voting Green and felt Jill Stein as a Green Party Presidential Candidate back in 2016 spoke about the social justice issues better for them.
That said, since Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election there have been quite a number of women Democrats being elected to office in the House, Senate and other statewide offices who have emerged as stronger and smarter in their political campaigns than what Clinton did with herтАЩs.
Don't forget that Clinton won the popular vote by over 5,000,000 votes. She "lost" only in the anti-democratic U.S. system, and with various extenuating circumstances we all know about.
I'm going to exercise caution with this as Trump was taking the steam away from the 2016 and 2024 presidential races.
A woman presidential candidate might be effective if she were a uniting figure like Barack Obama was in 2008 as long as she would bridge the divide between the polarizing sides.
Remember the circumstances under which the first Black presidential candidate won in the U.S. Trump is popular with a lot of idiots, but he brings chaos, and just as voters voted for a Black man to fix what white men had ruined almost to the point of a new Great Depression, they may well turn to a woman to fix what men ruined in the next 4 years. But either way, I don't see Democratic voters acting on the basis of anyone's sexism in our primary voting.
we should certainly hope so; the Democratic party is clearly not perfect, but the current Republican party is evil