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PollJunkie's avatar

It's delusional to say that Kamala lost because of her gender as Biden has been going around claiming in interviews rather than pointing out any other reason, she had much bigger problems like inflation, economy, border and being the VP of Biden, an unpopular president proven by the polls. She was trailing Trump on the biggest issues except Protecting Democracy, time and again, with the majority of voters saying that the country was headed in the wrong direction. No president has won re-election when voters say this.

Yes, it may be a bigger lift for a woman to be the president but which polls are you referring to? I can only find one where 57 percent that the country is ready to elect a woman, 23 percent say that country is not ready and 20 percent say that they are not sure. The sample size, Hillary and Kamala, is too small to know it as both were candidates dogged by a variety of issues. I concede that it may well be that a white Christian man is the safest bet. I personally dislike identity politics and would like the best and most winnable candidate to be nominated regardless of gender.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article294432724.html

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michaelflutist's avatar

Yeah, well how many people aren't sure whether the country is ready to elect a _man_ as president? You think 43% is not a sufficient number to change election results? Come on.

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PollJunkie's avatar

0 percent but you'd find a high percentage of these not sure guys in every issue poll including Trump approval ones and I'd bet a vast majority of these not ready people are Republicans, specifically MAGAs.

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michaelflutist's avatar

Yeah, but this is not 20 or 30%. Let's be serious, please. In addition, I'll bet some of the people who say they think the country is ready aren't actually ready to vote for a woman themselves, but won't admit it to a pollster.

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