We all still need to actually vote in elections and do so in large numbers. No more talk. We need results.
Dramatic_Wealth8638 on
This country is not ready for a woman president. At all.
Paruhdyme_ on
I’m voting for whoever addresses the working class.
Better taxes. Better (free ideally) healthcare. Better education. Better public transit. We need to actually become a first world country, not a billionaire safe haven capitalist hellscape.
neloish on
Oh boy.
Unusual-Sundae-7134 on
Here we go again.
The Democratic party has lost the pulse of the average VOTING citizen.
The young voters aren’t going to show up. They’ll talk a lot about it on social media and show up for the occasional rally, but when it comes down to it too many of them are just going to stay home.
50+ and college grads are still the overwhelming majority of people who actually show up and vote, and as sad as it is to say, they’re not voting for a woman.
I WISH young voters would show up in numbers, but as my mom used to say “Wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first.”
None if this is to say that AOC isn’t qualified or wouldn’t make a good President. The Democrats just keep running the same old playbook and that’s why we keep getting stupid, old, white men elected.
If they put forth a moderate candidate they’d win by a landslide (assuming the fascists in power don’t successfully steal another election).
jstank2 on
All I ask for is a fair primary.
You can do all the polling you want, but the best poll is the primary itself. That is why we have that.
The missing part of this poll though, is what does the newly disaffected MAGA think?
BarelyBehaving309 on
youth backing her shows theyre tired of the same old politics and want bold progressive action not just vibes
No_Summer3051 on
This is how they lose again.
You don’t need to sway dems, they need to sway republicans who would rather a rapist demented old man over a woman. They’ve proven this twice
The answer is a middle aged, straight, white candidate. I know, the horror but it’s also the truth that Americans aren’t ready as a whole for anything else
Neuroware on
how about among people who actually vote?
MiserableTear8705 on
Never going to happen. We have tried a woman for 2 out of the 3 past elections and both times the woman failed. We tried two highly qualified women, even, with extreme historical backgrounds in politics, political spheres, and law. Both failed.
As much as I love AOC, and she is great, her lack of experience politically would tank her presidency VERY easily even aside from her being a woman. The lack of experience would be an easy excuse for so many people to not vote for her.
Let’s not fall into this trap again. I strongly believe articles like this and posts like this are intentionally misleading you.
There is no world in which a woman wins the American presidency in any current time. I’d hate to say it. But it’s proven twice now to be the reality.
Fragrant_Rooster_763 on
She’s not going to win. It’s as simple as that. The Democrat party needs to run someone who isn’t going to lose because of misogyny or racism, and at least make it about the principles instead of the other stuff.
Unfortunately, this is where we are as a country.
Good_Entertainer9383 on
“My issue with her is that she isn’t nearly old enough or out of touch enough” – moderate Democrats
Whornz4 on
The demographic least likely to vote are young people. I’m not sure she is electable at this moment in a national primary. She does have a bright future though
Kagrenac8 on
Terrible choice, and that’s not a judgement of her competency or qualifications.
Stereo_Jungle_Child on
AOC becoming the Democratic nominee should guarantee a GOP victory in 2028.
StridingForChange on
She would be a good cabinet appt to show she can be steady and mature.
Chance_Cow_8434 on
please no. we can’t lose another election.
Clamsadness on
I want her to primary Chuck Schumer and take his seat in the Senate. My fear with AOC as a national candidate is that she’s been used as a boogeyman by the right for so long that many voters won’t give her a chance.
GreyBeardEng on
If we run her we will lose. Swing voters arent ready for a woman, I wish they were but they aren’t.
ColonelBungle on
Oh interesting, did all of the sexist and racist people who voted in 2024 suddenly change their beliefs?
aegenium on
I dunno. Democrats have had an awful record trying to win presidential elections with women.
Misogyny is huge and can absolutely make the difference between winning and losing.
I just want this madness to stop.
Roach-_-_ on
Kelly AOC ticket is the only way she sees the executive branch. And the only way this country gets over its female president fear is when the male president is removed for a reason and a female vp takes over
pillbox_purgatory on
As long as she talks about the economy and affordability and not mention social/identity politics….then she has a solid chance to be competitive
Gabarne on
People can keep parroting that Kamala lost because she’s a woman. In reality, she lost because she’s not likeable. The only thing she had going for her was that she wasn’t Trump. Notice how awful she did in the 2020 democratic primary.
That said, I voted for her because I didn’t want Trump. But a non-likeable candidate isn’t gonna get people out to the polls.
If AOC was on the ballot i would 100% vote for her. She identifies with and represents the average American. If she announced candidacy though I’d expect her to get stonewalled by the establishment.
Select_Ad_976 on
As a woman, America is not ready for a woman.
NoCoversJustBooks on
If she’s the Dems candidate they are toast. She’s been bemoaned since the day she arrived by the right-wing and their media. It doesn’t matter how thoroughly she eviscerates JD Vance / GOP racist. She can have better ideas. She can speak better. She can shut down GOP talking points left and right, just like most Dems I assume.
Does. Not. Matter. If the Dems want to win, obviously they need a strong platform and to provide clear value. That goes without saying.
But right-wingers won’t even listen to a woman. A significant portion of them refuse to believe women CAN be effective leaders. You think, in these times, given two losses proving the contrary…Americans have gotten better/more open minded since Hillary/Kamala?
You think they’ll vote for the “bartender” when they wouldn’t vote for attorneys/AGs/SecState, etc? God I wish we lived in a different world. But we don’t. And we have to win in order to actually keep things from back-sliding even more.
You think it’s bad now? Imagine if Dems lose again in 2028 to JD “principles for sale” Vance and his backer Peter Thiel. By then, conservative Americans could very well be facing a dilemma they’ve never seen before (rapid job loss due to AI / robotics)…and they’d still vote for outright capitalism and tax cuts for the rich.
It’s not about issues until you can get rid of their …cudgel. Make it about anything but gender, race or sexuality. But if Dems trot out a brilliant LGBTQ person against f’ing Pete Hegseth? Dems would lose. That’s insane but it’s true.
My long shot candidate is James Talarico. I know he’s not perfect. But no one will reach white southerners like he would, or someone extremely close to him. The Dems need to throw biblical principles in the GOP’s faces for now. It needs to be what we openly champion (compassion, empathy, taking care of sick, feeding the hungry, welcoming the immigrant) with the explicit REASON being its alignment with both his/her morality according to their faith + constitution.
It is a bitter pill to swallow, and I would personally vote for her if she won the primary. I just don’t think she can win against this version of the GOP/American culture. We are too trash.
Ge856293 on
She will lose in a general election
TadhgOBriain on
I like AOC and her policies, but a woman of color can’t win in the US yet.
justbecauseyoumademe on
At this point i think the only realisitc chance of winning is for a middle aged white dude to be front and centre
Do i love it? No
Have we enough evidence that the majority of voters dont like women? Yes
NotAnotherBlingBlop on
As much as she would be an incredible president, do we seriously want to go over three with women as our candidate? It’s incredibly clear this country’s misogynistic as fuck and won’t vote for a woman.
nabuhabu on
Young “voters”. It’s nice these people have enthusiasm but look at the results in Tennessee just last week: young people don’t vote. If you’re not ahead with the 60+ demographic, don’t bother. I think AOC is awesome but whomever Democrats pick has to be appealing to the demographic that actually cares enough to vote
Oceanbreeze871 on
So was Bernie, and he lost his last primary by 10 million votes.
Young voters don’t show up. Ever.
Professor1777 on
AOC is awesome and extremely competent and qualified. Having said that, she is a definite L for us if she become the nominee. You can’t win national elections with candidates that do not appeal to the middle, and there is no way all those (sadly important) flyover state boomers will ever vote for her. Anyone who is inexplicably on the fence after Trump 2.0 isn’t going to suddenly come to their senses no matter how high the mountain of common sense evidence there is to convince them.
swarlesbarkley_ on
Love AOC but that would just be a way to catalyze center republicans to continue to vote maga
KidzRockGamingTV on
I don’t believe US voters are ready for a woman president.
GoodWaste8222 on
She’s not gonna win the presidency
Askew_2016 on
She would get destroyed in the general election. This weird push from progressives to back candidates who have no real accomplishments continues to stun me. All they care about is useless stump speeches and posturing
SubzeroNYC on
She’s too polarizing. I’d much rather go with Ro Khanna.
fr0z3nf1r3 on
The only reason we had trump twice is he went up against women both times and our country is unfortunately a sexist den of idiots.
Cyndakill88 on
I want her to be the party leader that’s a lifetime gig and she could guide the party for over 20 years as opposed to a possible 8 years max as president
BlackTemplar2154 on
She’s amazing, but the US is not ready for her. Even Michelle Obama is open about that. We already know this, and it’s three years early, we cannot throw the next election.
kakapoopoopeepeeshir on
She needs to run for Senate. She is not ready for a run at President nor is the country ready to elect her in my opinion
BBfan-Jr on
This is why trump won. Somehow the democrats are figuring out who should win, next house leader, Supreme Court, etc.
We’re 3 years away. Focus on the midterms and the war crimes now. Whoever wins isn’t going to be perfect. If it’s a moderate, you support the shit out of them. If it’s a liberal, you support the shit out of them. We can’t lose again and talking about who might win is pointless.
gregid on
America is too misogynistic to elect a woman president. This would just give us another four years of republican tyranny.
joeye44 on
america is too damn sexist AND racist for that to ever work
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We all still need to actually vote in elections and do so in large numbers. No more talk. We need results.
This country is not ready for a woman president. At all.
I’m voting for whoever addresses the working class.
Better taxes. Better (free ideally) healthcare. Better education. Better public transit. We need to actually become a first world country, not a billionaire safe haven capitalist hellscape.
Oh boy.
Here we go again.
The Democratic party has lost the pulse of the average VOTING citizen.
The young voters aren’t going to show up. They’ll talk a lot about it on social media and show up for the occasional rally, but when it comes down to it too many of them are just going to stay home.
50+ and college grads are still the overwhelming majority of people who actually show up and vote, and as sad as it is to say, they’re not voting for a woman.
I WISH young voters would show up in numbers, but as my mom used to say “Wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first.”
None if this is to say that AOC isn’t qualified or wouldn’t make a good President. The Democrats just keep running the same old playbook and that’s why we keep getting stupid, old, white men elected.
If they put forth a moderate candidate they’d win by a landslide (assuming the fascists in power don’t successfully steal another election).
All I ask for is a fair primary.
You can do all the polling you want, but the best poll is the primary itself. That is why we have that.
The missing part of this poll though, is what does the newly disaffected MAGA think?
youth backing her shows theyre tired of the same old politics and want bold progressive action not just vibes
This is how they lose again.
You don’t need to sway dems, they need to sway republicans who would rather a rapist demented old man over a woman. They’ve proven this twice
The answer is a middle aged, straight, white candidate. I know, the horror but it’s also the truth that Americans aren’t ready as a whole for anything else
how about among people who actually vote?
Never going to happen. We have tried a woman for 2 out of the 3 past elections and both times the woman failed. We tried two highly qualified women, even, with extreme historical backgrounds in politics, political spheres, and law. Both failed.
As much as I love AOC, and she is great, her lack of experience politically would tank her presidency VERY easily even aside from her being a woman. The lack of experience would be an easy excuse for so many people to not vote for her.
Let’s not fall into this trap again. I strongly believe articles like this and posts like this are intentionally misleading you.
There is no world in which a woman wins the American presidency in any current time. I’d hate to say it. But it’s proven twice now to be the reality.
She’s not going to win. It’s as simple as that. The Democrat party needs to run someone who isn’t going to lose because of misogyny or racism, and at least make it about the principles instead of the other stuff.
Unfortunately, this is where we are as a country.
“My issue with her is that she isn’t nearly old enough or out of touch enough” – moderate Democrats
The demographic least likely to vote are young people. I’m not sure she is electable at this moment in a national primary. She does have a bright future though
Terrible choice, and that’s not a judgement of her competency or qualifications.
AOC becoming the Democratic nominee should guarantee a GOP victory in 2028.
She would be a good cabinet appt to show she can be steady and mature.
please no. we can’t lose another election.
I want her to primary Chuck Schumer and take his seat in the Senate. My fear with AOC as a national candidate is that she’s been used as a boogeyman by the right for so long that many voters won’t give her a chance.
If we run her we will lose. Swing voters arent ready for a woman, I wish they were but they aren’t.
Oh interesting, did all of the sexist and racist people who voted in 2024 suddenly change their beliefs?
I dunno. Democrats have had an awful record trying to win presidential elections with women.
Misogyny is huge and can absolutely make the difference between winning and losing.
I just want this madness to stop.
Kelly AOC ticket is the only way she sees the executive branch. And the only way this country gets over its female president fear is when the male president is removed for a reason and a female vp takes over
As long as she talks about the economy and affordability and not mention social/identity politics….then she has a solid chance to be competitive
People can keep parroting that Kamala lost because she’s a woman. In reality, she lost because she’s not likeable. The only thing she had going for her was that she wasn’t Trump. Notice how awful she did in the 2020 democratic primary.
That said, I voted for her because I didn’t want Trump. But a non-likeable candidate isn’t gonna get people out to the polls.
If AOC was on the ballot i would 100% vote for her. She identifies with and represents the average American. If she announced candidacy though I’d expect her to get stonewalled by the establishment.
As a woman, America is not ready for a woman.
If she’s the Dems candidate they are toast. She’s been bemoaned since the day she arrived by the right-wing and their media. It doesn’t matter how thoroughly she eviscerates JD Vance / GOP racist. She can have better ideas. She can speak better. She can shut down GOP talking points left and right, just like most Dems I assume.
Does. Not. Matter. If the Dems want to win, obviously they need a strong platform and to provide clear value. That goes without saying.
But right-wingers won’t even listen to a woman. A significant portion of them refuse to believe women CAN be effective leaders. You think, in these times, given two losses proving the contrary…Americans have gotten better/more open minded since Hillary/Kamala?
You think they’ll vote for the “bartender” when they wouldn’t vote for attorneys/AGs/SecState, etc? God I wish we lived in a different world. But we don’t. And we have to win in order to actually keep things from back-sliding even more.
You think it’s bad now? Imagine if Dems lose again in 2028 to JD “principles for sale” Vance and his backer Peter Thiel. By then, conservative Americans could very well be facing a dilemma they’ve never seen before (rapid job loss due to AI / robotics)…and they’d still vote for outright capitalism and tax cuts for the rich.
It’s not about issues until you can get rid of their …cudgel. Make it about anything but gender, race or sexuality. But if Dems trot out a brilliant LGBTQ person against f’ing Pete Hegseth? Dems would lose. That’s insane but it’s true.
My long shot candidate is James Talarico. I know he’s not perfect. But no one will reach white southerners like he would, or someone extremely close to him. The Dems need to throw biblical principles in the GOP’s faces for now. It needs to be what we openly champion (compassion, empathy, taking care of sick, feeding the hungry, welcoming the immigrant) with the explicit REASON being its alignment with both his/her morality according to their faith + constitution.
It is a bitter pill to swallow, and I would personally vote for her if she won the primary. I just don’t think she can win against this version of the GOP/American culture. We are too trash.
She will lose in a general election
I like AOC and her policies, but a woman of color can’t win in the US yet.
At this point i think the only realisitc chance of winning is for a middle aged white dude to be front and centre
Do i love it? No
Have we enough evidence that the majority of voters dont like women? Yes
As much as she would be an incredible president, do we seriously want to go over three with women as our candidate? It’s incredibly clear this country’s misogynistic as fuck and won’t vote for a woman.
Young “voters”. It’s nice these people have enthusiasm but look at the results in Tennessee just last week: young people don’t vote. If you’re not ahead with the 60+ demographic, don’t bother. I think AOC is awesome but whomever Democrats pick has to be appealing to the demographic that actually cares enough to vote
So was Bernie, and he lost his last primary by 10 million votes.
Young voters don’t show up. Ever.
AOC is awesome and extremely competent and qualified. Having said that, she is a definite L for us if she become the nominee. You can’t win national elections with candidates that do not appeal to the middle, and there is no way all those (sadly important) flyover state boomers will ever vote for her. Anyone who is inexplicably on the fence after Trump 2.0 isn’t going to suddenly come to their senses no matter how high the mountain of common sense evidence there is to convince them.
Love AOC but that would just be a way to catalyze center republicans to continue to vote maga
I don’t believe US voters are ready for a woman president.
She’s not gonna win the presidency
She would get destroyed in the general election. This weird push from progressives to back candidates who have no real accomplishments continues to stun me. All they care about is useless stump speeches and posturing
She’s too polarizing. I’d much rather go with Ro Khanna.
The only reason we had trump twice is he went up against women both times and our country is unfortunately a sexist den of idiots.
I want her to be the party leader that’s a lifetime gig and she could guide the party for over 20 years as opposed to a possible 8 years max as president
She’s amazing, but the US is not ready for her. Even Michelle Obama is open about that. We already know this, and it’s three years early, we cannot throw the next election.
She needs to run for Senate. She is not ready for a run at President nor is the country ready to elect her in my opinion
This is why trump won. Somehow the democrats are figuring out who should win, next house leader, Supreme Court, etc.
We’re 3 years away. Focus on the midterms and the war crimes now. Whoever wins isn’t going to be perfect. If it’s a moderate, you support the shit out of them. If it’s a liberal, you support the shit out of them. We can’t lose again and talking about who might win is pointless.
America is too misogynistic to elect a woman president. This would just give us another four years of republican tyranny.
america is too damn sexist AND racist for that to ever work