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[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 65 points 4 months ago (5 children)

She's the best chance they have to win imho. Because picking anyone else looks like extreme ratfuckery and loses a lot of the base. (And people here overrate how supposedly unlikeable she is lol).

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 60 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

kamala-coconut-tree

Kamala explains the eternal science of dialectics

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The guesses that she’ll perform poorly are based on the 2016 primary where she wasn’t unlikeable as much as she was bland and forgettable. She’s just a blank slate now people can project what they want onto her.

I still don’t think she has a good shot and that Whitmer or Newsom would have it. I’ll be surprised by her alleged likability when I see it.

Edit: tbf I do know some suburban wine mom/aunt libs who love her. So clearly there’s a demographic there. Problem is that it’s very similar to Hillary’s. I don’t know if that’ll be enough to push her over the edge.

Having the first female/non-white president is probably going to be the card they play. Will probably play up her being half-black more than half-Indian and make comparisons to Obama.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah this. Its the easiest transition. And i know its hard for me to imagine how people who don't really follow this stuff feel about her, or how people who are going to vote feel about her. I do think people will like her less the more they see of her, but i don't know that it will matter.

I don't think it really matters what people feel about her. The dems strategy is negative partisanship and abortion. The candidate doesnt matter as long as they can keep the conversation on Trump and abortion. Harris is really bad at this, on top of being an outright ghoul, but she can at least say the word abortion. And abortion is already boosting the base and going to drive people to vote.

I'm not saying she'll win, but i think more or less anyone but Biden could be competitive in this race. It could go either way, but i think people here are a little kneejerk that the dems will lose to Trump.

Disclaimer- i don't care about this election or who wins. I've just followed this stuff for way to long to not have an oponion on what might happen.

Death to Amerikkka of course amerikkka

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

no way in hell it's gonna happen

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

Lol okay. What i said could happen is that she could win or lose, just that it's not impossible for her to win

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

Another big factor is all of that money that's been donated to the Biden campaign that only she has clear legal access to

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 points 4 months ago

I saw someone mention Mark Kelly, the astronaut turned AZ senator that flipped AZ blue. I think people could get behind that with the right campaign. I dunno if the DNC is that competent though