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In reply to the discussion: Breaking: AOC finally accepts face-to-face debate challenge for congressional election [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Many women share a combination of social liberalism and economic conservatism. Plenty of men too, but it's especially common among women.
And however genuinely socially liberal she may or may not be, she has been campaigning heavily on social issues. She claims that she decided to run when Ocasio-Cortez lost the 14th the Amazon headquarters, which will have tremendous social impacts for years.
Coronavirus is hitting the 14th very hard, and I read recently in the LA Times that she's been working and campaigning very hard with the many local groups that are trying to deal with special problems of very densely packed, long-established populations, like multi-generation families, living in multi-story buildings, etc.
In order to understand anything, we have to look at the whole picture. To those who live there it's much more real, complex and multidimensional than just "Republican" and "corporate donors." It's about what they think their reps will do with the power they give them, and most specifically what they'll use it to do for them. And Ocasio opened the door for this Repub-switch-Democrat candidate.