Can i be the president if i am gay

Sep 27, This post is for paid subscribers Subscribe. Inthe chances of an openly gay man being elected president are higher than ever before, but still face significant hurdles. But Democrats very explicitly framed her selection to be about her racial and gender identity go back and read the contemporaneous reporting if you doubt me.

But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.

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Already a paid subscriber? And they happen to dovetail with a subscriber question about Mayor Pete. Moreover, while Harris justified her decision in terms of characteristically Demthinky risk aversionshe was in a position where she actually wanted to adopt more risk because she entered the race as an underdog to Trump.

Kamala Harris and a subscriber have questions about Mayor Pete, and I have annoyingly nuanced answers. Let's find out if the rumors are true. Start writing Get the app. Oh, boy. In fact, this was originally going to be SBSQ What is Demthink?

Substack is the home for great culture. Sign in. Harris wrote of what seems to be an implicit point-scoring system: you want to stay in the Goldilocks zone of just the right amount of diversity. The problem with Demthink is not merely that it tends toward cynical triangulation.

Does the evidence presented here suggest the possibility of the existence of gay U.S. presidents?

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For a Democratic Nomination It’s highly plausible, given Pete Buttigieg’s past success and the Democratic party’s strong support for LGBTQ+ rights. Previous Next. Being fluent in Demthink can be helpful for navigating the internal currents of the party, something Harris is adept at.

Chris Murphy wanting to check every box to appeal to different parts of the donor class rather than settle on one message. For instance, who thought it would be a good idea for Congressional Democrats to pose kneeling while wearing kente cloths when announcing police reform legislation?

But those people are mostly conservatives, not people who would consider voting for a Democrat in the first place, and especially not those who would vote for a Black and Asian American woman with a Jewish husband. Only a straight white man — and preferably not a member of a religious minority group either — could keep things in the right range.

But it had probably more upside than making a DEI hire out of Walz. Polls commissioned by Politico and published in October suggested half of American voters said they were personally ready for a gay or lesbian president, but were divided as to whether the country.

Instead, though, we got Demthink. Gay Rep. David Cicilline, a Democrat from Rhode Island who was a co-sponsor of the bill, took floor and said the previous wording "disregards the fact that a president may be female, and the. Nate Silver.