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I feel like actually though Harris like Hilary is a good advert for there being strong sexism in the system not just the electorate, basically for women to be candidates they have to be weak very pro establishment types, anyone genuinely progressive who threatened to upset the gravy train would be facing pushback from that AND sexism, they would be in an even more difficult situation than someone like Sanders was.
Harris's voters were 55% women and 45% men, same as any other Democrat. Sexism had nothing to do with it.
Obama I think sneaked though a little although I think really he was only very mildly progressive, if he'd been any moreso that combined with racism would have been much harder to fight.
Obama won BECAUSE he was black. All sorts of black voters who had never cast a ballot before came out to vote for the first black President.









