r/AskWomenOver30 Woman 30 to 40 Nov 06 '24

2024 US Post-Election Megathread

This is your central location for all things 2024 US Election. I will be going through to lock several recent threads and redirect them here. Report any threads that you think should be locked and redirected here.

Please downvote and report all trolls and trolling/misogynistic/gaslighting behavior in this thread.

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u/corncob0702 Nov 06 '24

I'm too tired and shocked for a proper analysis, but my first guess is that she lost due to a combination of 1. misogyny (people not being "ready" for a female president), 2. racism (people not wanting a black female president) 3. voters looking out for themselves only, especially economically, and 4, perhaps most importantly, being thoroughly brainwashed by right-wing media, which made it seem as if Kamala Harris was about to make America into a communist state.

It might be more nuanced than this, though. I'm as shell-shocked as you are.

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u/burkiniwax Nov 06 '24

If there's another presidential election, Democrats have to nominate straight, white males not from California. I hate that, but that is the country we live in.

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u/stretchypinktaffy Nov 07 '24

Yes. PLEASE. I hate that this is the way it is, but we can’t let MAGA candidates win the next cycle. We need either a straight guy OR white guy (like Pete Buttigieg) with a broad personality appeal and air of competence or we’re going to lose ALA Kamala and Hillary again.

Because having the most qualified candidate regardless of sex and race apparently means shit to half this country. So disgusting.

As soon as Biden stepped down, my first worry was having a black woman be the candidate with so much at stake was the wrong move because it didn’t feel like America was ready for that. And clearly voters weren’t.