2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What if Bernie were Bernice? [View all]phleshdef
(11,936 posts)...Bernice is at dealing with that kind of adversity.
And of course I'd never deny that gender is a factor in politics... but it HAS gotten better.
But a strong candidate is a strong candidate. There are plenty of men who have gotten into politics and failed to even scrape the bottom of Hillary Clinton's shoes, in terms of how much success she has had thus far. Hillary Clinton is a very strong candidate all on her own, good points and bad points. And none of us can deny, there is a a perception of the Clintons being a little big shady. Yet despite all that, she will probably be the next President. I'm voting for Bernie, but my instincts haven't changed about what I believe the final outcome will be. So where gender MIGHT be a factor, Hillary Clinton is a woman with some checkered areas in her past, but she will probably still make it to the oval office. That has to be considered when talking about "Bernice" in that other universe next to ours.