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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
I'd like to push back on this a little, I think she hurt herself by saying "vote for me because I am a woman and will be the first female president" instead of marketing a robust platform that targeted the needs of America.
Without googling, what were her campaign promises?
All I remember from her campaign was
1. She was not trump.
2. she wanted to be the first female president.
in the big picture there is nothing wrong with her promoting her gender and highlighting inequities in politics, but in the long run she totally missed the tide of the times, Americans wanted change, and big change for better or worse. She was pandering to the status quo, another 4 years of Obama, and it was not what the the voting public wanted.
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I don't blame you for not remembering it, but her campaign was churning out a huge amount of policy papers. And a lot of them were not status quo. Debt-free college! Enough clean energy to power every home in America in a decade! Universal pre-school! Massive infrastructure projects! Paid family leave! A lot more I'm forgetting. These were ambitious goals that were laid out in far more detail than anything Biden or Harris or even Obama had done during their campaigns. She's a policy wonk, and early in her campaign she was really trying to lean into that. It might have worked in a pre-Trump election cycle, but once the election became about the fact that she was unlikeable, her campaign spent all their efforts trying to push back on that, rather than trying to sell her vision and expertise.