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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you stop focusing on the "type" of person you might come up with a winner. Choosing someone because "it’s time for an X" is why you keep losing. Notice the only time Trump lost, was to an old white guy….[/quote]

This. Need a middle aged white guy. [/quote]

We "need" the best person for the job you racist low IQ troll.[/quote]

We do... but we need the electable candidate. PP is not wrong, sadly.[/quote]

PP wasn’t wrong that Democrats need to stop focusing on the “type” of candidate, but [b]then they seem to be ignoring their own wisdom.  [/b]The answer isn’t that the only electable candidate is a white male “type”.  The answer is to nominate someone without considering their type.

People say that Kamala Harris lost because too many people were racist and/or sexist to vote for a black woman.  While that’s a convenient excuse, it ignores some relevant facts.  For one thing, Nikki Haley was pretty popular among Republicans outside the Trump cult, being his main opponent in the primaries.  The fact that Kamala Harris was a woman certainly wouldn’t have deterred Nikki Haley primary voters from swinging their votes to Harris in the general.  Secondly, a lot of Obama voters (who apparently were fine voting for a black candidate) ended up voting for Trump.   If the Democrats had kept all the Obama voters, I think we’d have President Harris now.

I think Kamala Harris is a highly intelligent and accomplished woman, imminently capable of being president.      Democrats understandably took umbrage to her being described as a DEI candidate.  Unfortunately, it was the Democrats who pigeonholed her into that slot.  Instead of Biden saying that after a great deal of research and soul-searching, he had concluded that she was the best running mate and potential Presidential replacement (and the fact that she is both black and female is an interesting coincidence that will be a nice historical footnote but has no bearing on her selection), he vowed to select a woman and then was publicly pressured to select a black woman.  So the message wasn’t that he had selected the best candidate who happened to be a black woman, it was that on the short list of black women he was given to consider, she was the best option available.

The next candidate can be black, white, or any other color.  They can be male or female.  The “type” doesn’t matter.  What matters is convincing the electorate that they were chosen not because of any type, but because their policies will be best both for the country as a whole and, perhaps more importantly, for the individual voter.[/quote]

You do realize that’s 2 different people right? As far as "type does not matter" please see the title of the thread….[/quote]

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