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  • @iasmina2007@lemmy.world
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    71 day ago

    Harris? The candidate who received exactly 844 votes in the 2020 primaries and secured zero delegates? The same vice president who, as of June 2023, held a net favorability rating of -17% - the lowest ever recorded for someone in that office? Newsom? A textbook status-quo California liberal? If these are your “best” options, then frankly, you kind of deserve to lose.

    • @dhork@lemmy.world
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      You’re not wrong, but the Democratic Primary is not set up to pick the best candidate. It’s set up to coronate the one who is next in line.

      When Obama won in 2008, it was actually an aberration. The party made sure to fix it in 2016, when thet shut down the old Socialist’s campaign in order to coronate the first woman President. How did that turn out?

      If there were a primary in 2024, they would have put their finger on the scale again to pre-nominate someone. The only open question would have been if they were compelled to nominate someone without a penis again. It seems too many voters see having a penis as a requirement for the job. So if it came down to the quasi-incumbent, penis-lacking VP against an individual experienced, penis-having contender, then it might have an actual contest.