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[–] [email protected] 268 points 1 month ago (52 children)

Like her or not, that lady got some hard as steel balls. AOC for president woooo!

[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 month ago (44 children)

Hey, DNC, aren't you desperate to put a woman up for election? You've got a fiery, quick-witted, awesome, young one here that is full of ideas and not afraid to try stuff. The conservatives haven't had time to run decades of smear tactics against her and she hasn't been threatening her husband's SA victims. I bet she already has a plan to deal with someone accusing her of being born in Mexico (I understand she's Puerto Rican, but that's not the bogeyman) and shut it down before years of idiocy bring it up again.

She's standing behind Biden this time around. I'm hoping for a run in 2028. It would be the first presidential candidate in a while that I didn't hold my nose to vote for.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

She’s a firebrand—that’s not an insult. But it is a fact that if the DNC puts her to run, she will mobilize a lot of voters who may otherwise sit this one out. Hard to say definitively how many on either side; but I think she’s likely more hated by the rightwing base than she is loved by the left wing/centrist base.

I don’t think it would be a good strategic move in this cycle. Although I’d love to see her in the Oval Office and would vote that way should the chance arise.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Any good leftist candidate would mobilize opposition voters, that is unavoidable. It's no reason to not run a good candidate.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Uh, late 40s here. I didn’t want to vote for Clinton (I did), but I’ll be first in line for AOC. She’s the right kind of direction to inspire us Genx who vote liberal. Time for Joe to step down.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Agreed on this cycle. Agree or not we've got Biden. That's not changing and that's who I'll be behind. But damn, next cycle if she's in the primary I'm going to get even more involved than I already am.

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