Seth Abramson with a very astute observation on the candidates' responses from last night

for nearly all of existence. It's time for the women to take over and clean up the mess.

one bit. Reading Abramson's tweet caused me to chuckle as I was reminded of me and my wife. She's certainly the better half by a mile when it comes to interpersonal and things that go awry and are not in her control. She never tries ti take charge, she just does by example.

To valorize women as some kind of saintly angels not captured by the same venal tendencies as men is to deprive them of moral agency and is the kind of anti-woman narrative one expects to see in a Victorian dimestore novella.

It’s a factual observation

He's right. The two women did handle it better.

The “sexist wishcasting” (that’s a new phrase for me!) I believe is directed at the notion that a woman, simply by virtue of being a woman, will come in and clean up the mess. Two words in response to that: Margaret Thatcher. Arguably Great Britons twin to Ronald Reagan.

That being said, I love Elizabeth Warren and can’t argue with the OP’s contention that the woman candidates handled the situation best.

And women have had none. POC have had only 1 chance. It’s well past time. We don’t know if women will clean up the mess because they have never had a chance.

Put Amy vs Warren in the debates.

Let the best woman win.

I could not agree more! Both were very "presidential" IMO. I like Pete but think he was a bit overboard in his speech. Both Warren and Amy were very graceful.

Klobuchar?

The dataset is tiny (relative to the massive datasets he’s dealt with), the analysis is simple and the results are clear. If Seth can’t be bothered to look at the data, then that is his problem. We collect data to ascertain reality - independent of expectation and hopes and biased social filters.

Might be changing things to Amy soon.

I give a little bit after every event or debate to show support.

Let’s attack a Dem who speaks out when they are confident of the results. Pete is a meticulous data collector, the data set is tiny, the analysis simple, and the results clear.

The Buttigieg Campaign posted all of their numbers in an Excel spreadsheet on the Buttigieg website. If Seth Abramson can’t be bothered to check the numbers, then that is a poor reflection on him. Pete isn’t stating an opinion - he has the data.

Pete would not claim he was victorious unless he was - if it turned out that he was wrong he would be the laughingstock of the nation.

One of Pete’s major at Oxford was economics for crissakes. He’s run his data through a bunch of different models and had to be certain he had been victorious before he claimed it so.

Also - if Senators Warren or Klobuchar had the numbers and were certain they had won I would’ve wanted them to shout it from the rooftops. Women need to assertively take the field and take up just as much space as males who feel entitled.

Dems have to make power plays to beat Repubs. Pete’s power play here is based on observing reality. In November - wouldn’t you like an operation like Pete’s to be way the fuck ahead of the game in terms of protecting our votes? He just did that.

P.S. LOVE SENATOR WARREN AND HAVE FOR DECADES. WOULD BE THRILLED TO WORK AND VOTE FOR HER IN NOVEMBER! I’m ticked at Abramson.

Starting at around minute 8:15

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