‘There’s a Real Tension.’ Democrats Puzzle Over Whether a Woman Will Beat Trump

New York Times ^ | 01/05/2019 | Lisa Lerer and Susan Chira

[McGavin999]

Since most democrat women are more masculine than democrat men it’s a fair question.

[laplata]

I agree. If voter fraud isn’t fixed, it’s over.

[grania]

Wouldn’t it be nice if they strived to find the most qualified candidate with the best potential to be a great President? That goes for both parties. Why do we have President Trump? Because the uni-party tried to force feed us Jeb vs hillary, two really bad choices.

[SauronOfMordor]

It will be interesting if the primaries expose the fracture lines within the Democrat party. Blacks vs Hispanics vs gay’s vs white feminists. Get lots of popcorn.

[IrishBrigade]

‘He will hit 400 electrol votes or more.’

which states are going to give Trump those 100 or so extra EV’s...?

[SamAdams76]

You can’t scold people into voting for you.

Very true. "Vote for me or you are a sexist" seems to be the general approach.

Eventually we will get a woman president but I hope it is on merit and not because of entitlement.

I tell women this all the time, they need to ASSUME equality, not demand it from others.

Equality cannot be given. It must be earned. If you need to have laws passed and such on your behalf, then you are not really equal.

[Digger]

But the democrat machines in Milwaukee/Madison, Detroit and Philadelphia will make damsure that their states don’t make the same “mistake” they made in 2016 The Get-Out-The-Fraud push in Floriduh and Georgia will likely cause problems there, too

This is the only thing that can ruin the election & the dumb (R)s have no inclination of going after it.

[GOPJ]

Anyone know what percentage of women are in top government spots in China?

[CodeToad]

“No chance Trump can get 400 EVs in 2020. Our country is too far gone right now.”

That, and the Dems learned they can stuff ballot boxes without question. They are going around the country as we speak teaching how to do it. The Republicans won’t win dog catcher in 2020.

[M. Thatcher]

You can’t scold people into voting for you.

You are exactly right.

But scolding pretty much defines the Democrat Party approach to voters, doesn't it?

[olivia3boys]

But so many millions of men voted for Hillary Clinton; I’m amazed and dumbfounded—but I know liberals are also dumbfounded why I (a woman) voted for Trump. The difference is Democrat policies are obviously hostile to men (ie, “rape” kangaroo courts in college, forced child support after DNA testing while women have full reproductive choice), while I honestly can’t think of any Republican policies that are openly hostile to women. I have 3 brothers and 3 sons and some of my sons’ friends—white, middle class—voted for Hillary Clinton and democrats, who all work actively against all their interests. Mystifying.

[olivia3boys]

What states did Trump win in 2016 that he would lose in 2020? I think if he keeps Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, he will win re-election. Would FL, PA, or OH vote for a far-left candidate? Doubtful.

[Taxman]

Is there such a person as a smart LIEberal democrat female?

Most of the LIEberal democrat females I am familiar with are, by choice, noxious, venomous harridans!

I contend that a woman who chooses to be a noxious, venomous harridan, cannot, ipso facto, be smart! They may have high IQs and be “street” smart, but by their abuses of reason, logic and common sense, it is very easy to see that THEY ARE NOT SMART!

[Popman]

——He will hit 400 electrol votes or more——

Can you private email me the drug regiment you are on ?

It must be some serious stuff...because 400 ev is delousional

[Lurkinanloomin]

Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania are all iffy at this point.

[poconopundit]

good one, Leep.

[null and void]

No individual woman, indeed, no single person can defeat Trump.

I woke up in mortal terror that they field an Ocasio-Cortez/Tlaib ticket. We’d be doomed if they ever smarten up and do so!

[Gumdrop]

They are so silly and immature. Not a word about policies, philosophy of government, etc. The culture seems to have no value, just keep counting various groups of people.

[poconopundit]

Many of those "smart" women are IYIs (Intellectual Yet Idiots)

What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders.

These are that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.

But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligentsia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island.

Nassim Taleb -- The Intellectual Yet Idiot

[CatOwner]

The question isn’t which states would Trump lose in 2020 that he won in 2016. Assuming he won all of the states in 2020 that he did in 2016, it’s which states did he lose in 2016 that he would win in 2020 to somehow get to the magical 400 EVs. I see no way for that to happen with *any* DEM candidate, and that is what I was responding to.