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In reply to the discussion: Why I am hesitant to vote for Hillary for President in 2016? [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Putting aside that I don't think I want Clinton on the ticket as a corporatist Koch funded DLC candidate...
Two women, even both progressive like Warren is would not be an effective mix of a ticket to maximize the draw of voters to the ticket. It's like why we typically don't want to have two men from the same state or general geographic region on the ticket either.
I spiritually don't have a problem if we had two women that both were good progressives on this ticket, and maybe a number of years down the road, we could have that ticket and win with it, but I think the first time a woman gets elected as part of a presidential ticket, it won't be on a ticket with another woman on it. That's nothing against women, it's just being pragmatic so that we can have a winning ticket.
And given reason 2, it is why the party with still a lot of "third way" influence on it and the corporatists will never allow this to happen anyway. They will use the pragmatics of the second reason to prevent a progressive that they likely will hate being on a ticket (Warren) so that they can have just Clinton along with another corporatist on it.