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The Democratic president with the largest margin of victory in recent times was a black man and you're still out here saying we need to court voters that won't vote for a person of color in order to win. Maybe your read on the inherent unelectability of women is similarly flawed.

The fact is that many Americans wouldn’t vote for a woman, and combining that with the ones who wouldn’t vote for a person of colour is a bad idea

So long as a progressive is a possibility and not one femtosecond longer.

I do think that the fact she wouldn’t support Palestine/condemn Israel was a factor too, but if she had, that would have set Israel against her and lost more votes

So we have to (and you get to) support genocide forever too!

You're making the entirely unfounded assumption that sexism was the cause for those women's loss rather than them individually both being terrible candidates. And despite the Obama example showing you "racism exists, so only run white people" point is just completely bullshit. People literally made the same argument against Obama.

There were blaring warning signs that had absolutely nothing to do with sexism with both candidacies. Easy bad campaign choices and cultural movements that very easily explain the losses without diving into the dark heart of man, but somehow you just ignore those to focus on banning women and POC from running for pragmatism.

Whatever you believe about your non-racist internal beliefs, your actions are indistinguishable from racism. And I'm not sure you'll ever think there's an election so low stakes that we can select the best candidate if she's a woman, because you don't seem to have learned anything by the event that proved the whole philosophy as suspect.

She was the VP, and who else did Democrats have? They didn't primary and changed horses at the last minute... They had no one built up for it and little time to do it

I didn't even hear very much about her being black or a woman - Trump took some shots, and they tried that angle on Fox and such, but most of that fell flat. They ended up calling her a communist and running on the economy - it seems extremely telling

Honestly, she did great until her advisors told her to ease up on the rhetoric and attacks, and basically crippled her already watered form political positions to the point it was "we're going to do good things in a nuanced way, but we're not going to take firm stands"