re: #140 BlueGrl21

I’m there as well. I want to believe a woman can be president in this country. I think we have women running that I would happily vote for. But I think this country is still not going to do it. I would love to be wrong but I do not believe it. Not because Hillary lost but because I think too many men AND women will not vote for a woman unless they meet a standard of absolute perfection in intellect, experience, appearance, demeanor, and family commitment no woman will be able to meet.

70,000 votes across three states. That’s how close we were to having a woman as president. The campaign took those three states for granted, as was mentioned upthread, they didn’t even do voter registration drives in Wisconsin. It’s going to happen, and probably in the next election.

There were all sorts of built in biases against Clinton - resulting in the fact that she was the second least popular major party nominee in history (the first being Trump). And still she won the popular vote by three million votes.