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Dacarlo
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Question How come...

Teh yanks havent ever had a female president?

We had to suffer Maggie Thatcher, its your turn now.

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bitches suck

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Aydin
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More Muslim countries have had female leaders. We're a very fundamentalist nation.

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well, how many women have actually run for president?

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Aydin
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It's not a question of running, it's a question of knowing they could never win.

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quote:
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It's not a question of running, it's a question of knowing they could never win.



what do you have to back that up?

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Aydin
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Presumably a woman could win today, but we've never had any women with previous political experience before. Until very recently even female senators or governors were pretty rare.

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Ok so not many run or they dont run coz they dont think they can win.

Hmmm. So who would you vote for?

Hilary Clinton?

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quote:
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It's not a question of running, it's a question of knowing they could never win.


I think there's probably a lot to that, but I don't think that every woman who would like to be president decides not to because she probably wouldn't win. I think it's more a factor of the party system, as it's evolved. We are still, for all intents and purposes, a 2 party system. Therefore, the odds of either party deciding to put all of their eggs in the basket of a female candidate are pretty slim, because it's all or nothing.

That said, maybe the Democratic party should throw up a female candidate for 2004. From where I'm sitting, I don't see any really noteworthy candidates for them. That is, they don't have any candidates who would be real contenders, based on their own name. That means their only chance is to win based on the campaign, itself, more than the actual candidate. Why not test the waters with a broad?

Meredith Veira in 2004. It's about time we have a President that I'd fuck.

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You have to be nominated by a party and win the primary to run for president.
The various parties pick a candidate that they think can win. When you can convince the party leaders that a woman could win, there will be a female candidate.
If Hillary Clinton wins, Monica Lewinski will have another crack at sleeping with the president.

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Aydin
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The Dems had a female VP in '84, but she lost (Mondale/Ferraro). But I think a Republican woman would come first. Liz Dole ran in 2000, but Bush "won" the primaries.

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George Bush reminds me of my grandmother if that helps

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