Who Should Run For President on the Democratic Side?

[Jumpin]

StriderKiwi said:

Chris Hu said:

Alexandria Ocasion-Cortez can't run in 2020 because she is still to young to run.  Beto didn't get whipped by Cruz he barely lost and I'm pretty sure he did a lot better then the last guy that ran against him.  So yeah pretty everything you brought up is pointless. 

200,000 votes is getting whipped. And this is after Cruz had a weak campaign while Beto got gobs of out of state funding and publicity. Dems banked hard on the shifting demographics in Texas but jumped the gun.

 

Forgot about Cortez's age. But seeing as I was arguing she couldnt win, thanks for making my case stronger.

 

*Talks about two of the arguments.

*Doesn't bother to debate/read the rest.

Still reeling from tuesday I see?

Not only that, Beto losing by a small margin against a major Republican in Texas is nowhere near the beast that a Beto running for President with national level funding.

In addition, Beto would more than likely rip through Hillary (considering she's much less popular now than she was in 2015/16) and will be boosted heavily by defeating her in the primaries.

Elizabeth Warren, from a policy perspective, and the fact that she seems more intelligent than the others, seems to me to be the best candidate - but given the nature of the US, she is clearly not. As I'll explain:
A large part about it has to do with the view of women in politics, almost every single woman is hugely maligned given enough time. It doesn't matter how trivial the reason, it can be blown up into the biggest thing in the world. The Elizabeth Warren DNA thing should have no significance; basically, she said she has a native ancestor, and the DNA test showed that she did have one, but because it somehow didn't translate into most to all her DNA being native, it was a scandal blown up to significant volumes. This is not unique for Elizabeth Warren, but true for all women in US politics until perhaps the most recent election; it seems any woman who is a known commodity in US politics only has negative news against her after about a 1-2 year period. The US, prior to 2018, in terms of women in politics was distantly behind the other western nations. Things began to catch up only in the recent midterm elections. Prior to that, they were even behind some Islamic Middle Eastern Countries, including Iraq - countries which Americans criticize for having too much of a patriarchal society. So while Elizabeth Warren may have a chance down the road, it does not look like it will be the next election as Americans seem to genuinely believe she is evil, and for no good reason.

 

Beto, on the other hand, is on fire. I think he's the appropriate candidate.

Last edited by Jumpin - on 10 November 2018