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I for some inexplicable reason feel optimistic about this. I think large majority wouldn't mind as long as she had popular platform.
Mhmmm. Unfortunately most of these Americans aren’t USianb.
If she had polulist conservative platform, sure, they will vote conservative anyway, and non-sexist part of the undecided could be swayed. With left leaning however, no chance. Her core base don't vote so they will fall off, a bunch of left leaning people prefer to be outraged to solutions so they will not vote because she will check 99 boxes out of 100 and for those people it might as well be satan incarnate, and a bunch of centrists will not vote for no woman something something sandwich. The rest are racists and will be outraged that a minority has an audacity to talk.
If her core base doesn't vote, how does she keep getting elected?
It's actually pretty easy to be elected as a representative, those elections are way more connected to the people, it's a local election and if you establish enough rapor with your community, you don't need a huge number of people to get elected, local community rarely has conflicting opinions.
It is so, so not the way presidential elections go it's not even funny, and even suggest that it is can not be a joke
The democrats get beat the fuck out every time they run conservative. They plummet in popularity if they get elected and then betray their constituents by doing what the republicans want. Republicans will never elect a republican-lite when the real thing is right there.
Meanwhile left policy polls overwhelmingly well among everyone, especially people who actually might vote democrat, and it's even more popular once people start feeling its effects, as you can observe in any country that has free or near-free healthcare and public housing.