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This is the one area where I'm optimistic. Of all her failings, she seems to present well.
I think she has more charisma than Hillary. I went to a Hillary speech once - smaller audience at a university, Obama-era - and while she's a good and compelling speaker when speaking to her base, I think she's prone to phrasing that's too easily taken out of context out simply easily misinterpreted even in context. The famous example being, of course, when she told middle-America that she wanted to destroy their way of life and put them out of jobs. What she said was that she was going to shut down the coal industry, but that means different things to different people. Kamala is less prone to that, I think. And Hillary was hard to warm to, and I'm kind of a fan of hers.
But we haven't really seen a lot from Kamala yet.
What I think she has in her favor:
Look people shouldn't vote based on heritage, or skin color, or gender - but they do, and you work with what you've got when the stakes are this high, and you've only got a few months to capture votes.
I think she has a lot going for her. We don't even know if she'll be the nominee; maybe someone stronger will win. I think Booker wouldn't be a bad choice; he's white, male, and young - that's removes a lot of variables and is safer. But it it's Kamala, I think she's got a lot to work with. If she, or her team, can play her cards well.
I never liked reddit gold but this comment is a masterpiece worthy of it. I don't really have anything to add because you basically covered it all, and each point is a 10/10 take.
I really hope you're right, that she can play both sides on issues like law enforcement and the Situation (genocide) in Gaza to really swing those swing voters. I'd really like to know how much of this had been planned from the get-go and how much is really just the democrats scrambling for some semblance of control again. I'm not proud to admit I'm susceptible to conspiratorial thinking, but at a certain point you have to acknowledge that there are huge teams of people with aligned interests who have no job but to make sure that their political master plans have contingencies on contingencies. Politics used to look too coherent for it to be as disorganized as it has become.
I'm sure this was well planned given that Biden's donors were threatening to withhold funds