I get it’s a psychological phenomenon and who knows how many people will subconsciously be biased about it, but there’d probably be 500 people max who would list ‘she’s too short’ as a reason for not voting for her. I just don’t think any of the reasons you listed above can’t be easily overcome by her being one of the best presidential candidates we’ve ever had. Kamala and Hillary being terrible/uninspiring candidates were by FAR bigger reasons they lost than their chromosomes or skin color

Oh I forgot about the most important one too, Netanyahu

“5. Vance is 6’2”, AOC is 5’4”. Standing together in a debate, AOC will look small”

I get large swathes of America are racist/sexist/materialistic, but it’s unserious to think people won’t vote for her cause she’s the average height for a woman

She’s obviously unqualified dude, it’s a prerequisite that you need to suck the dick of every Fortune 500 CEO to run for president

In a way it kind of is, I’d rather someone be an open and honest fascist than a closet fascist/fascist collaborator. Easy to read intentions and I know to expect absolutely nothing from you but pain.

It really is sad though that 99% of politicians here have completely sold us out. We’re on our own. Nobody is coming to save us

The level of political rot in this country is at comical levels, as we can see from this race.

There is NOTHING Stevens is better on than Abdul. NOTHING. I cannot believe this horseshit

I am, don’t worry, I enjoy my socialism with a dose of reality

Russia Today?….

I’m in the tankie and Stalinist part of the site aren’t I

OK? Thank you for the context, but I still don’t seem to remember ‘liberals’ cheering the fire on

You’re aware the House of Trade fire happened over 10 years ago right, not during the war?

And if there’s any stories about Ukraine deliberately targeting civilians, please share

That’s not a good comparison at all. People don’t vote for speakers at conventions, and Bill is very unpopular and would get decimated in any election right now even if he was 20 years younger

Denial (cope?) stage. Give it a day or two, I hope

You are asking Democratic voters to overlook a credible rape allegation, we are not Republicans. It’s not going to happen, Platner is not going to win after this.

I don’t know how the Maine DSC works, but it’s not a given they’ll shit out Mills depending how they work. In my state, delegates from each caucus would vote for it, and our delegates this year were HEAVILY left-leaning (a midwestern state).

Platner just isn’t going to win after this unless it’s roundly debunked. Would I still vote for him over Collins in November if I lived in Maine? Probably, but I wouldn’t be pumped about it at all anymore.

Best case scenario is he drops out and the Maine DSC nominates a new candidate who isn’t Mills.

No real winning outcome on this. A guy with a credible SA allegation doesn’t deserve to be a Senator, we don’t deserve another term of Susan Collins or a Republican majority in Congress. I just don’t think a replacement for Platner is beating Collins

Well this seems a lot more believable than everything in the NYT story. I was all in on Platner and still have some skepticism of this just due to the sheer amount of political ratfuckery in this country, but yeah this probably could end his campaign unless some other evidence against it comes out fast.

The timing of this, seeing some random people on Threads/Twitter say another accusation against him is coming a few hours ago, articles about how to replace a candidate in Maine ready to go right away etc., is definitely really suspicious too. This whole thing fucking sucks dude.

So vandalism should be met with a 50 year prison sentence?

Who the fuck knows what’s going to happen anymore, but I don’t really think they’re going to be able to not deliver mail-in ballots. The Postal Workers Union has already said they do not care what the Postmaster General or anyone else says, they will be delivering ballots. States run their elections, if the states also tell Washington to kick rocks, there’s not much they can do besides firing all the postal workers and good fucking luck canning an incredibly powerful union with multiple additional legal protections that other unions don’t have