Hi!
I posted this as a commentary and wanted to elevate it so y'all could see it.
Happy New Year!
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Carol's in it to win. We hosted their first meetup. Her son was there. I still have her material in the store proudly proclaiming that "Carol Can Win"... her first campaign literature proudly taking a swipe at what she knew would be her biggest obstacle... that people would think she was a vanity candidate.
Now, the fact of the matter is that her candidacy hasn't taken off because she has not done a good job in talking to her sheerly demographic constituencies: women, Blacks, and Catholics. If she had, she would have been president, and we could have done worse.
But, she didn't get the cash to get the message across, probably because she is a Black, Catholic woman, it was assumed she would never win, and so, why waste your money? Then it becomes a matter of the self-fulfilling prophecy.
The long and short of it, is now that she has run, she has options available to her that she didn't before... she'll never be mare. We vote for Constitutional Monarchies in Chicago, and hizzoner is in for life. But, she could be governor, and with a governorship and being a Black woman, she might someday be tapped for VP, then could run for President again, but this time, with some gravitas.