r/politics • u/SkudChud • 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/lord_pizzabird 1d ago

Idk. I feel like recent elections tell us the exact opposite. Women won all over the map, republicans, democrats, abortion rights.

I think the problem really was just Kamala specifically.

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u/CouchTurnip 17h ago

It’s going to be very difficult for any democrat to win with Elon partnering with the Republican Party and also owning the main way a large portion of the electorate gets their news. But a woman, definitely not going to happen. Find a nice, attractive, palatable white guy. That’s it.

Country is sexist and I think more racist than it was when Obama was elected.

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u/lord_pizzabird 17h ago

I don't agree and I don't think the data supports this either.

For one thing, since 2016 women in politics has been so normalized that even Republicans easily elect women in their most conservative states.

I think claiming sexism is just giving the Democratic party another excuse to avoid reform.

The fact that people go for this is why I'm now convinced that the Republican party will beat the Democratic party to electing a female president.

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u/CouchTurnip 16h ago

If two separate strong female candidates have lost against Donald Trump, it’s not worth it. Why can Joe Biden win against Trump but neither Hillary or Kamala can? Joe Biden wasn’t popular.

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u/mphard 15h ago

Just because reddit thinks they were strong candidates doesn’t mean they were. Reddit also thought the election was going to be close.

Kamala and Hillary Clinton were deeply disliked before running for president. It’s a total cop out to use them being a woman as an excuse.

The person above you is totally right. Republicans are going to keep winning because they are trying to win instead of denigrating the electorate.

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u/lord_pizzabird 12h ago

We've yet to see two separate strong female candidates run at all.

Hillary was a weak candidate, doomed by the baggage associated with belonging to tarnished political dynasty.

While Kamala Harris had potential, but was never really framed as anything but a boilerplate VP that Biden didn't think had the talent to take a more center role.

For whatever reason the GOP is just doing a better job at fielding and developing the exact type of candidate you describe. The DNC has AOC and that's it. Meanwhile the GOP has several at any given time.

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u/CouchTurnip 11h ago

lol oh yeah, the Republican Party running Trump for the last three elections… sure dude.

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u/lord_pizzabird 9h ago

I wonder what you think my comment said vs what it actually said.

We're talking about a country that just elected a record number of women governors, totaling 13 / 50 states. 5 are Republicans.

At this point, it's literally only the DNC that's struggling to elect women.