We wrote immediately below about Democrats mistakenly thinking they can win with a straight, cisgender white nominee. Not 5 minutes later I came across the Washington Post’s quarterly ranking of the top 15 Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls, as reprinted in the Chicago Tribune.
What do I see? Fully 10 of the 15 are white and, mostly if not all, straight and cisgender. The remainder are non-white (with ranking): Kamala Harris (3), Cory Booker (5), Deval Patrick (7), Eric Holder (9), and Oprah (15).
No Hispanic makes the WaPo top 15, perhaps because Hispanics as a group neither (a) vote in huge numbers, nor (b) vote exclusively Democratic.
Numbers 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 all represent the triumph of hope over experience: Bernie Sanders (1), Elizabeth Warren (2), Joe Biden (4), Kirsten Gillibrand (6), Terry McAuliffe (8), etc., etc.
