In the days before and in the hours after a horrid, single digit fourth place finish in the New Hampshire Primary, there have been suggestions that sexism did in Elizabeth Warren.
But if that is the case then how does one explain Amy Klobuchar's surge to third place last night?
You would think that if there was a bias against a female candidate it would come from people over the age of 65, but this was the group with which Klobuchar did best. Frankly, Warren's fall from grace had nothing to do with her gender. It had to do with her lack of honesty whether it concerned her Medicare For All policy and sheer desperation in her wild accusation in which she alleged Bernie Sanders of telling her a woman could not be elected President.
As for Klobuchar, it remains if New Hampshire is a one hit wonder or if it is a springboard to the Democratic nomination. But if she fails to win the Democratic nomination or fails to defeat Donald Trump in November it will be because of a lack of organization, finances, greater scrutiny of her record and personal shortcomings (namely her temper). But it won't have a single thing to do with her gender.
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