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Hillary Clinton

athena

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20. It's not a matter of being less accepting of the idea.

Reply to Koinos (Reply #9)

Thu Jun 16, 2016, 10:36 AM

Jun 2016

It's a matter of having experienced sexism enough in one's own life to be skeptical that a majority of the country would be willing to vote for two women to lead the country. I seem to recall that many Black people also had similar misgivings about Obama's candidacy in its early days.

But people just love sexist stereotypes. It can't be that women have completely rational and reasonable concerns about things. It must be that women just hate other women.

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It's interesting that men are more accepting than women about the idea of electing two women. Koinos Jun 2016 #9

It's not a matter of being less accepting of the idea. athena Jun 2016 #20

Not sure how accurate the Bloomberg poll is about that discrepancy between men's and women's views. Koinos Jun 2016 #22

Looks like another useless poll trying to frame a narrative - that narrative being, push for an all- BlueCaliDem Jun 2016 #12

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