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In reply to the discussion: Tim Walz backs David Hogg for DNC vice chair [View all]wnylib
(25,082 posts)You do not know how the 2008 election, and subsequent elections, would have turned out if Hillary had won the primaries in 2008.
I remember noticing that, in the primaries, Hillary was more uncomfortable about dealing with sexist propaganda than Obama was about dealing with racism. If that was a problem in the primaries, how would it have played out in the general election?
Hillary, through no fault of her own, had been demonized by the right long before she ran for president. She went into the 2008 election with both the demonization negative and sexism working against her. Her vote in support of invading Iraq also worked against her among several Dem voters.
I liked Hillary. I met her and briefly talked with her during her first run for Senator in NY. I voted for her then and in her re-election. i also voted for her in the 2016 primary and general election.
But, although I am a woman, and supported Hillary's Senatorial elections here in NY, I voted for Obama in the 2008 primaries and general election because I believed that he had a better chance of winning the general and because I saw confidence and strong leadership qualities the first time I heard him speak. I read up on him, bought his book, The Audacity of Hope, and volunteered on his campaign doing phone banking and door to door visits in PA (my home state and not far from me in NY).
I strongly supported Hillary in 2016. If not for election interference from Russia and from Comey, she would have won. She would have been an excellent president.
But your scenario of how 2008 and subsequent elections would have turned out if she had been the Dem candidate in the 2008 general election is just fantasy speculation.