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At some point the Democrats will need to decide what's more important to them, diversity or winning elections. I'm not saying they should pander to the racist, sexist segment of the population that will only ever vote for white men. At the same time, pandering to the segment of Democrats who insist on diversity quotas isn't a winning strategy either. Obama absolutely got votes simply because he's black. He was also well-qualified, articulate, and charismatic. Clinton got votes because she's a woman. She lost the election because she was not particularly articulate or charismatic. If the Democrats want to run a woman or a minority, then find the right one that can win the election. Otherwise we're in for another 4 years of Trump.
Although in this particular case, the age of the Democrats' top 3 candidates has me a lot more concerned than their race or sex. I like both Sanders and Biden, but either of them would be significantly older than any other candidate that has ever run for President let alone one. I feel like either of them would be limited to one term due to their age. Beto O'Rourke is young, but I don't know that much about him to be honest.
I agree with almost all of that, but it's just a straw man that Democrats are going to nominate someone BECAUSE they are female/black/gay, etc. Just to pick one example, Corey Booker is black, but he's been blistered from time to time by 'the left' for being too cozy with Wall Street types and other corporate big dogs. That stance on ISSUES if he's running will play a big role. Same with the rest of them running, whatever color/gender.
Hillary is a woman, but lots of us voted for the white man (although a Jew) in the primary because we didn't trust her on similar issues - the $12 million fill up the coffers speaking tour with the big banks REALLY didn't set well with many of 'the left' and many stayed home, although she was running as a woman. You don't have to look hard on here or in general online to find people on the left (often the far left) who did NOT vote for Hillary for issue-related reasons.
I also object to the sort of implied insults in the bolded. Do you not think W. Bush got votes because he's a white man, with a famous daddy who was formerly POTUS? Reagan got votes because he was a well known actor, and struck a nice pose on the campaign trail with his movie star presence.
And just in general, sure, Obama got votes because he's black, and McCain got votes because he's a white male, and a POW. And probably something like 80% of the votes for POTUS are cast solely on "He got my vote because he's a Democrat (Republican)) - the end. Obama and Hillary also no doubt LOST votes because they were black/female, when there's an unbroken in U.S. history preference for a POTUS who is a white, male, Christian - 100% before Obama.