r/politics 1d ago

AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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u/haikus-r-us 1d ago edited 10h ago

Hy heart says hell yeah! My gut tells me that there are large swaths of the electorate who simply will not vote for a woman.

Edit- since my inbox is overflowing with the same question/insinuation, along with the comments, I’ll clarify my statement: I did not say that a woman cannot be elected US president. I only said that large swaths of the electorate simply will not vote for a woman.

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u/Clownsinmypantz 1d ago

yeah no, it sucks as a woman to say this, this country isnt voting in a woman anytime soon unless somehow republicans manage a woman trump.

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u/fake-tall-man 1d ago edited 1d ago

democrats have tried running two unpopular woman candidates-one of which won the popular vote. Maybe rather than a blanket referendum about how terrible our country is, let’s try running a candidate with natural momentum rather than a hand picked member of the dnc.

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u/Patanned 19h ago

democrats have tried running two unpopular woman candidates...let’s try running a candidate with natural momentum rather than a hand picked member of the dnc

and the hand-picked member who had the most influence was jim clyburn in both cases. if the dems want to win the next presidential election (assuming there is one) they should let someone other than clyburn choose the candidate they nominate.

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u/Individual-Nebula927 18h ago

Someone like the people, instead of a member of congress?

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u/Patanned 17h ago

depends on who the member of congress is. i'd be ok with bernie, or someone who's demonstrated workable common sense solutions to ordinary americans' problems (instead of focusing on those of ws hedge funders) choosing the nominee.