The old white guys won. Sen. Warren is probably feeling the way Adlai Stevenson did when he was told, “You have the vote of every thinking American,” and he replied, “But I need a majority.”
I haven't been following the election coverage, but I guess we'll find out whether Clinton lost because (a) she was a boring, mainstream, establishment politician (b) she was female
Personally, I think she lost primarily because of (a), and can't think of an obvious-to-the-clueless way to distinguish her from Biden, other than gender and her scandal-ridden husband. I hereby predict another term of Trump, based on the assumption that the average voter doesn't follow any issues closely, and will have the same general impression of Biden that I do.
(p.s. I'm not a US citizen, so no point following closely - I just have to keep an eye out for the place becoming too dangerous for me to stay there. Fortunately(?), while Trump and many of his followers are into demonizing the Other, I don't currently register as Other to them - I have white skin, speak English without an accent, and am not Muslim ;-( Even while everything they say about immigrants etc. causes me to see them as very much Other.)
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Date: 2020-03-04 03:34 pm (UTC)(a) she was a boring, mainstream, establishment politician
(b) she was female
Personally, I think she lost primarily because of (a), and can't think of an obvious-to-the-clueless way to distinguish her from Biden, other than gender and her scandal-ridden husband. I hereby predict another term of Trump, based on the assumption that the average voter doesn't follow any issues closely, and will have the same general impression of Biden that I do.
(p.s. I'm not a US citizen, so no point following closely - I just have to keep an eye out for the place becoming too dangerous for me to stay there. Fortunately(?), while Trump and many of his followers are into demonizing the Other, I don't currently register as Other to them - I have white skin, speak English without an accent, and am not Muslim ;-( Even while everything they say about immigrants etc. causes me to see them as very much Other.)