SInNYC
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« on: October 24, 2020, 03:44:26 PM » |
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because he wanted to win. Obama ran as fresh blood breaking with the old DLC corporatist Democrats that ran the party without being too far left (I realize some supporters of other candidates branded Obama as a DLCer, but thats not what he ran as nor what voters saw him as). Hillary would have been yet another DLCer that would have been a finger in the eye of his very enthusiastic base. Biden gave him much needed gravitas and he was not a DLCer (though he was not exactly on the left).
Also don't forget that some party leaders recognized Hillary's general unpopularity, to the extent that Reid encouraged Obama to run in the first place.
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