# Kamala Harris for President? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** kamala-harris\ **Created:** [July 10, 2022, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-for-president/967693 "2022-07-10T01:26:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-for-president/967693/61 "2023-08-08T20:46:53Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > My only concern about her as a Presidential candidate is of course that the things that make her appeal to me in terms of getting away from our Old White Christian Male default assumption make her leper outcast unclean to a large number of voters, who will vote their prejudice. Sure, she wasn’t going to win over many if any of them to her side, but it seems likely (not certain of course) that it may drive additional turnout against her than someone with similar political POV but who don’t set off the bigots. People were saying similar things about Obama. Harris is no Obama, but it shows that Democrats shouldn’t worry how bigots will react. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2023, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-for-president/967693/62 "2023-08-08T21:07:51Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > People were saying similar things about Obama. Harris is no Obama, but it shows that Democrats shouldn’t worry how bigots will react. No, all else being equal, we shouldn’t. But, flipping that around, Trump / DeSantis are no McCain either - they and most of the Republicans of today are unprincipled autocrats/fascists, and losing a narrow election to them isn’t 4 years of worse but competent judges and legislation, it’s 4 years of slash-and-burn of democracy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-for-president/967693.md?page=3)