If Warren and Klobuchar are “unelectable” due to their gender, when will that ever change? Photo: Getty Images One of the hardy perennial topics of contemporary left-of-center politics is the fear that Donald Trump has poisoned this country’s civic life in ways that will inflict long-term damage on America and on the world. My colleague Andrew Sullivan spoke for many recently in wondering if the degenerative “process is accelerating, and we may be nearing a point of no return.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has built the most formidable campaign organization of any Democratic presidential candidate in the first nominating states, raised an impressive $25 million without holding high-dollar fund-raisers, and has risen steadily in Iowa and New Hampshire polls.
While many people have candidates they’re excited about, their top priority by far is beating President Donald Trump. And for some, because of Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016, they’re not sure certain candidates — namely, women — can do it.“Biden and Warren are our top two choices,” voter Connie Esbeck recently told Vox’s Tara Golshan in Iowa, adding, “I’m still afraid there’s going to be people that are prejudiced against electing a woman.
“When people say it shouldn’t be a woman this time, because a woman lost last time, well, men have been losing the presidency for hundreds of years,” says Amanda Hunter, a policy director at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation.
ed_kilgore Hillary got 3 million more votes. Tell misogynists they're wrong instead of giving them more attention.
ed_kilgore Ridiculous. HRC got more votes that the POTUS.
ed_kilgore No, the exact opposite is true.
ed_kilgore Bull. They ran one last time. How about the fact that they’re afraid to run a Jewish person?
ed_kilgore What bullshit is this?
ed_kilgore who said that
ed_kilgore Not women Dems!!.Absurd premise.
ed_kilgore That’s ridiculous. That’s exactly why his opponent needs to be a woman. He afraid of them. Warren or Harris would rip him to shreds.
ed_kilgore With all due respect to this paranoid theory, I will only vote for a woman this time.
ed_kilgore Hey ! you forgot to add “But of Course they are wrong as ewarren is leading the pack of 2020 candidates “ WTF don’t you realize this kind of head Lie is encouraging tired old misogynistic bullshit do better it’s 2019 get with the program thanks ✌🏽🇺🇸✌🏽PaperBallots
ed_kilgore And the misogyny continues...
ed_kilgore “Convinced?” Are you delusional?
ed_kilgore the democrats just need to nominate a more popular female, like 😀madonna she's organized and smart + she has decades of international prowess mexicans and spainards love her for 'la isla bonita' the UK loves her for 'beautiful stranger,' russians love her for 'ray of light'
ed_kilgore That's a shame. This independent says fuck that noise, dems. Be better than the GOP.
ed_kilgore I feel like people have forgotten that Russia actively interfered in our election.
ed_kilgore Progressive. Please?!
ed_kilgore Bullshit
ed_kilgore In 2016, Trump's opponent was a white woman, but he won white women.
ed_kilgore What?
ed_kilgore Warren beats him. Dems need to talk to ppl in person more
ed_kilgore Unqualified Women
ed_kilgore I disagree totally. I don’t want any more old white men.
ed_kilgore we are not fucking *afraid* to nominate a woman. and stop repeating what could be come a self-fulfilling prophecy, media. ewarren araneo_k
ed_kilgore I’m still waiting for Warren to explain why she divorced her first husband in 1978, kept his last name, and then remarried a couple of months later.
ed_kilgore This list does not include (non-elected) female rulers like Pharaohs & Queens. Get your shit together, America, it's time to give a woman a chance if she's the best man for the job: 'All the countries that had a woman leader before the US' VotesForWomen
ed_kilgore Maybe try one who actually goes to Wisconsin and Michigan to campaign and also isn’t so closely linked to a lot of dead political opponents.
ed_kilgore This rhetoric won Trump his grifting job in 2016. People, don't let misogony win again
ed_kilgore May I remind: 'A WOMAN' ran for president in 2016 and got MORE VOTES than the thankless and classless misogynist.
ed_kilgore I want to believe that like myself the majority of Americans, really don't care whether our president is male or female. It's about the ideas they bring to the table, and the content of their character.
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