Wonkette: Politico Now Wondering If Kamala Harris Is *Too* Likable To Be President

[ehrnst]

Clinton has won the popular vote in every race she's ran (yes, even the 2008 primary). We should all be so unlikeable. Still, Clinton was a boring policy wonk with no compelling rationale for her campaign other than her many qualifications. Now Warren is too "divisive." Harris is apparently taking a different approach because she's a different person, as we understand women sometimes are. Politico points out the folly in this strategy.

In interviews, two dozen political strategists, elected officials and Democratic activists and voters — most of whom watched Harris' events in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina — said she's shown promise as someone who can connect with voters at an emotional level. The excitement she's generating and her profile as a charismatic, mixed-race progressive, they said, is creating a sense that she may be the candidate who best matches the mood of Democratic voters at this moment.

"Mixed-race progressive"? People still say "mixed-race" like they're talking about the offspring of a poodle and a dalmatian? This article's not getting any better from here, is it?

But in her early state debuts, Harris has at times compensated for her lack of precision and detailed policy prescriptions by lapsing into prepared remarks, turning to legislation she supports — even when it indirectly relates to the question — and leaning on anecdotes to connect with audiences.

So, she's like Bill Clinton, but because she's a woman, Politico wants us to think she's basically a moron or, even worse, Sarah Palin. Got it. Male-dominated media consistently tries to "bimbo-ize" women politicians such as Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose "relatability" and dynamic personalities are seen as negatives. Yet Joe Biden's many gaffes launched a thousand cool grandpa memes.

https://www.wonkette.com/politico-now-wondering-if-kamala-harris-is-too-likable-to-be-president

[sheshe2]

1. Oh, please.

Yet concern-trolling publication Politico wonders if Harris is connecting too well with people.

Fugg Politco!

[Me.]

2. What This Says To Me

Aside from your every day, never absent misogyny, is that she's the ONE. The twofer...a woman and a POC.

[marylandblue]

4. It's the "never absent" part of misogyny that worries me.

Can we really pick the best person when half the candidates need to be perfect while the other half gets a bunch of mulligans?

[Me.]

12. Yes

but when done we need to organize and nobody organizes like WOC

[comradebillyboy]

3. I nthink Bernie should smile more...

[Cha]

9. ..

[EffieBlack]

11. But not too much ...

[Gothmog]

5. Senator Harris is very good at retail politics and so this makes me smile

[Mr.Bill]

6. Why don't they go all Ted Nugent

on her and just say Mongrel? Mixed race? Please, it's 2019, not 1919.

[Perseus]

7. Sarah Palin is a bad comparison because she is no likeable at all

Only the deplorable liked her, same who like the orange buffoon

[Wounded Bear]

8. Wait a minute, I though she wasn't black enough?

Now she's too likeable? Damn, it's getting hard to remember all of the RW reasons for me not to like our Dem candidates.



After Trump, I think I can stand a bit of "too likeable" thank you very much.

[Awsi Dooger]

10. This part is accurate

"creating a sense that she may be the candidate who best matches the mood of Democratic voters at this moment."

That seems to stem from the Kavanaugh hearings, where I thought others were superior but Harris' style is what posters here and other Democratic sites seemed to prefer.