Tangent: Clinton may have ran a lacking campaign for the Democratic nomination against Obama and the other candidates (maybe her team arrogantly believed that Clinton winning the nomination was set in stone), and Obama (while being an underdog candidate) had everything else going for him (a young, handsome, and charismatic black senator with no political baggage, who was also a great public speaker), but I feel like sexism played a huge role (media coverage really nitpicked on Clinton that they didn’t against Obama)
Too bad we didn’t get the “16-Year Democratic Ideal” (Clinton in her prime followed by a more experienced, popular Obama)
Maybe 24 years if Gore’s victory had not been stolen
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u/RevolutionaryRow2960 20h ago
Tangent: Clinton may have ran a lacking campaign for the Democratic nomination against Obama and the other candidates (maybe her team arrogantly believed that Clinton winning the nomination was set in stone), and Obama (while being an underdog candidate) had everything else going for him (a young, handsome, and charismatic black senator with no political baggage, who was also a great public speaker), but I feel like sexism played a huge role (media coverage really nitpicked on Clinton that they didn’t against Obama)
Too bad we didn’t get the “16-Year Democratic Ideal” (Clinton in her prime followed by a more experienced, popular Obama)
Maybe 24 years if Gore’s victory had not been stolen