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Posted July 22, 2024 00:33 · last edited July 22, 2024 00:36

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The difficulty the Democrats now have is to support the first black woman to be president or go with an untested younger man? 
Harris may well be the best choice, but she's gonna have to do a whole lot or work to improve her personal ratings, 
I googled that and after the first Biden-Trump debate there was a poll of preferred president and Harris was polling about the same as Biden was, about a percent behind Trump. With more exposure, and if she does a good job, that will rise.

It's crazy that her skin colour or gender even comes into it, it should be just about capability, but that's the world we live in. But, those prejudices might work in her favour too, if Trump does his name calling and bullying on a black woman then that will alienate a lot of people in a way that doing it to an older white man or someone with the perceived baggage of Hillary Clinton didn't.

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theprof
The difficulty the Democrats now have is to support the first black woman to be president or go with an untested younger man? 
Harris may well be the best choice, but she's gonna have to do a whole lot or work to improve her personal ratings, 
I googled that and after the first Biden-Trump debate there was a poll of preferred president and Harris was polling about the same as Biden was, about a percent behind Trump. With more exposure, and if she does a good job, that will rise.

It's crazy that her skin colour or gender even comes into it, it should be just about capability, but that's the world we live in.
Unknown editor edited July 22, 2024 00:34
theprof
The difficulty the Democrats now have is to support the first black woman to be president or go with an untested younger man? 
Harris may well be the best choice, but she's gonna have to do a whole lot or work to improve her personal ratings, 
I googled that and after the Biden debate there was a poll of preferred president and Harris was polling about the same as Biden was, about a percent behind Trump. With more exposure, and if she does a good job, that will rise.

It's crazy that her skin colour or gender even comes into it, it should be just about capability, but that's the world we live in.
Unknown editor edited July 22, 2024 00:33
theprof
The difficulty the Democrats now have is to support the first black woman to be president or go with an untested younger man? 
Harris may well be the best choice, but she's gonna have to do a whole lot or work to improve her personal ratings, 
I googled that and after the Biden debate there was a poll of preferred president and Harris was polling about the same as Biden was, about a percent behind Trump. With more exposure, and if she does a good job, that will rise.

It's crazy that her skin colour or gender even comes into it, but that's the world we live in I suppose.