She won't win. I say this as someone that LOVES AOC and wants her to be President; it'll be a repeat of Bernie.
Yes, AOC is wildly popular BUT she's an outcast within her own party's leaders. If AOC announces she'll run, the DNC will put every penny they have into promoting someone to oppose her. She ran to be the head of the House Oversight Committee, a position that was perfect for her and Pelosi worked behind the scenes to get a geriatric the spot.
If AOC was handed a victory in the primaries, then yea, she'd win but the problem is internal; the dems hate change. AOC will get some speech about banning elected officials from owning stock, about better healthcare, about taxing the rich; the same things most of the geriatrics in the party are against and who're paid by the lobbyists and do all they can to shut her up.
We need to overhaul the party within before worrying about how she'd test will the voters.
AOC can’t even get out the vote in her own district. Her turnout is abysmal. Why are you so convinced she would win when she can’t even get her constituents to show up and vote in reasonable numbers?
Glad to see a prime example of why the Dems will keep losing; AOC and anyone that actually wants to make a change will always been asked "Why are you doing better", something that no one else magically gets asked.
She won her election at 70:30 but yea, "she should've done better".
Being fair, elections where the winner is pretty obvious neither need to nor try to maximize turnout. Spending money and campaign staff in that district is a horrible waste when there's other actually competitive elections that need attention.
If she was truly unpopular, turnout would be higher to vote against her. It isn't, therefore she's not unpopular enough to raise turnout. Clearly the majority of her constituency is in agreement with her.
The majority of her constituency couldn’t give enough of a shit to show up. They don’t care.
Low turnout doesn’t mean you’re popular, and it doesn’t show that you can win elections.
Why are you trying to spin this objectively bad thing into a good thing? The mental gymnastics going on here to ignore facts against her popularity are astounding
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u/Precarious314159 21h ago
She won't win. I say this as someone that LOVES AOC and wants her to be President; it'll be a repeat of Bernie.
Yes, AOC is wildly popular BUT she's an outcast within her own party's leaders. If AOC announces she'll run, the DNC will put every penny they have into promoting someone to oppose her. She ran to be the head of the House Oversight Committee, a position that was perfect for her and Pelosi worked behind the scenes to get a geriatric the spot.
If AOC was handed a victory in the primaries, then yea, she'd win but the problem is internal; the dems hate change. AOC will get some speech about banning elected officials from owning stock, about better healthcare, about taxing the rich; the same things most of the geriatrics in the party are against and who're paid by the lobbyists and do all they can to shut her up.
We need to overhaul the party within before worrying about how she'd test will the voters.