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Frank Monachello's avatar

BTW Harris is experienced and ready to prosecute the case against Trump and win. The flawed Hillary beat Trump by 2,868,686 popular votes. Women comprise the largest group of registered voters in this country, and they tend to turn out to vote, 68.4 percent of them did in the 2020 election. Would a woman midwestern governor (i.e. Gretchen Whitmer) match up nicely against Vance as V.P.? Yup. Also, since 1960, 77 women in 59 countries have held the most powerful elected position (President or Prime Minister) in their countries. So, in many ways, America is an outlier. And, frankly, shame on any able-bodied Democratic leaning woman who isn't knocking on doors, etc. this time who wishes their daughters or granddaughters could experience a woman American President.

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

Great post. Note that the Dem convention is in August, not April.

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Seth Masket's avatar

Ack! Thanks for catching that. Fixed.

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Richard's avatar

"In a while" is . . . 4 years ago?

I wasn't that surprised because the Dems coordinated back in 2020. Heck, the establishment Dem leaders cleared the establishment lane for Hillary in 2016.

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Michael Whitehorn's avatar

Lots more hope today, for sure.

Going to be curious to see what happens with staff and staff leadership. Do they immediately start working for VP Harris? Are some going to go find another effort/campaign? And Harris is the only person who can pay these folks, so maybe it ends up just being about money?

Thanks for your thoughts as always!

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Richard's avatar

What wasktastic drivel is this? So when party bosses decided who the presidential nominee would be, both the Democratic party and GOP were national criminal organizations by your logic?

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Richard's avatar

Where you are mistaken:

The fact that for it to be a criminal enterprise, laws have to be broken.

If you want criminality, you'd have to look at the GOP candidate.

You seem to not comprehend that a party coalescing on a decision and a party boss using her clout to influence her party is not criminal.

Also, note that the primary voters voted for Kamala too.

BTW, that "puppet" sure seems to excite the party members a ton.

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