i take issue with your characterization of HRC's struggle with the black vote as, "unexpected".

I sure as hell expected it, and ranted about it.

https://youtu.be/O524K_r18aY
or this
https://youtu.be/AClZArsT6nM
or this
https://youtu.be/AXyNRuBJrdk
They seems to see that she's another empty suit.

Young people and POC who stayed away, and whites with only a high school education went in droves to Trump. These used to be reliable democrats. I guess they wised up. Kirsten Gillibrand played the feminist card and is fundraising off of Al Frankens scalp. This political cycle is going to be interesting.

her critics are slamming her for her tenure as attorney general of California. And well they should.

Kamala Harris’ A.G. Office Tried to Keep Inmates Locked Up for Cheap Labor

Ordered to reduce the population of California’s overcrowded prisons, lawyers from then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office made the case that some non-violent offenders needed to stay incarcerated or else the prison system would lose a source of cheap labor.

In 2011, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Plata that California’s prisons were so overcrowded that they violated the Constitution’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. Three years later, in early 2014, the state was ordered to allow non-violent, second time offenders who have served half of their sentence to be eligible for parole.

By September 2014, plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit were back in court, accusing California of slow-walking the process, which lawyers for Harris’ office denied.

According to court filings, lawyers for the state said California met benchmarks, and argued that if certain potential parolees were given a faster track out of prison, it would negatively affect the prison’s labor programs, including one that allowed certain inmates to fight California’s wildfires for about $2 a day.

“Extending 2-for-1 credits to all minimum custody inmates at this time would severely impact fire camp participation—a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle of a difficult fire season and severe drought,” lawyers for Harris wrote in the filing, noting that the fire camp program required physical fitness in addition to a level of clearance that allowed the felon to be offsite.

Not only that, they noted, draining the prisons of “minimum custody inmates” would deplete the labor force both internally and in local communities where low-level, non-violent offenders worked for pennies on the dollar collecting trash and tending to city parks. A federal three-judge panel ordered both sides to confer about the plaintiffs’ demands, and the state agreed to extend the 2-for-1 credits to all eligible minimum security prisoners.

If that's not enough information about what she did, there's this opinion piece that was posted in the NYT

Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor’

Time after time, when progressives urged her to embrace criminal justice reforms as a district attorney and then the state’s attorney general, Ms. Harris opposed them or stayed silent. Most troubling, Ms. Harris fought tooth and nail to uphold wrongful convictions that had been secured through official misconduct that included evidence tampering, false testimony and the suppression of crucial information by prosecutors.

Consider her record as San Francisco’s district attorney from 2004 to 2011. Ms. Harris was criticized in 2010 for withholding information about a police laboratory technician who had been accused of “intentionally sabotaging” her work and stealing drugs from the lab. After a memo surfaced showing that Ms. Harris’s deputies knew about the technician’s wrongdoing and recent conviction, but failed to alert defense lawyers, a judge condemned Ms. Harris’s indifference to the systemic violation of the defendants’ constitutional rights.

Ms. Harris contested the ruling by arguing that the judge, whose husband was a defense attorney and had spoken publicly about the importance of disclosing evidence, had a conflict of interest. Ms. Harris lost. More than 600 cases handled by the corrupt technician were dismissed.

Ms. Harris also championed state legislation under which parents whose children were found to be habitually truant in elementary school could be prosecuted, despite concerns that it would disproportionately affect low-income people of color.

Ms. Harris was similarly regressive as the state’s attorney general. When a federal judge in Orange County ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional in 2014, Ms. Harris appealed. In a public statement, she made the bizarre argument that the decision “undermines important protections that our courts provide to defendants.” (The approximately 740 men and women awaiting execution in California might disagree).

Both articles are worth a full read. I read on ToP today in a diary about that attempted FBI coup, which they seem to be in favor of, that the country is going to need a person like Kambama who has great skills as an attorney general to clean up everything that Trump has done. The kiss ass comments stunned me even though after reading the site since Her lost shouldn't have.

Regarding jobu's comment..

Obama was the last and most important iteration of a Bait and Switch Campaign. Important for the Plutocrats who tanked the economy first and foremost. They needed someone who could pull it off in spectacular fashion as Barack Obama did. Hell, I bit that hook hard as did a lot of hard-headed cynics from the progressive left.

... some were bitching about how he looked forward instead of holding the banks accountable, but apparently he couldn't have done anything about that because he came into office with the economy in shambles and was dealing with two wars. I don't think that the wars bothered him too much since he immediately put more troops into one of them and then expanded the drone war and formed his Tuesday kill list meetings. The length that site will go to in order not to see Obama for who he is is stunning. Now watching them embrace the intelligence agencies (they are heroes) and lining up behind Kambama is astonishing. Even Shaun King is lining up with Kambama.

I laughed out loud loudly when I read what her father said about her after her marijuana gaff. !!

People are beginning to realize that there are more identities than just race, gender, and sexual orientation. A black, female politician might identify with her wealthy elite class more than her race and gender. In which case, her policies may not be significantly different than the policies of the rich, white male politician.

Poor, exploited, and oppressed people are in abundance after 50 years of neoliberal neocons at the helm. We need all of us to come together to take down the billionaires. Slicing, dicing, and misery indexing by age, race, and gender is how they assure we never get strong enough to win. Identity politics is a tactic used by both parties.

The democratic party cannot attract any candidate but careerists who all stand for the same shit.

Democrats will win or lose depending on how much people are excited about or hate Trump. Same story that progressives saw in 2016.