As terrible as it is, I think a lot of people subliminally attribute a significant portion of the fact that Hillary lost to her being a woman.
I don't think a woman will be the nominee in 2020.
Unfortunately, there seems to be a higher-standard for liberal women. I expect that, like most of developed world, the U.S.' first female president will come from the center-right.
That's in the general election though. Is being female really a big disadvantage in the primaries?
As I said upthread, I remain skeptical of the ideas that voters take lessons on who is electable and who isn't from previous elections. So I don't see Clinton losing the GE in 2016 as the sort of thing that'll make primary voters skittish about nominating another woman. The impression I get is more that voters like who they like, and then talk themselves into believing that whoever they like is going to be electable.
I do think it's probably more likely than not that the 2020 Dem. nominee will be male, but that's just because the majority of candidates will be male, so they have better odds. It's not because the women in the race face big gender-induced roadblocks to being nominated.
Yes, the same double standard was evident in the 2016 primaries.
Sanders was hailed as the more "progressive" candidate despite the fact that he lacked any major legislative accomplishments, was well to the right of Clinton on gun issues (something that should have sunk him with liberals), and never released his own tax returns.
The fact that someone as much of a joke as Bernie Sanders had an almost credible shot at the Democratic nomination in 2016 shows how pervasive the double standard is.
EDIT: And don't even get me started on the media's portrayal of Obama vs. Clinton in '08
PREACH! PREACH!
I get why Sanders "has" to be pro-gun because Vermont is such a rural state, but do they really cling to their guns up there like the rednecks do around here where I live? Vermont just doesn't strike me as a place where sitting in some frigid cold forest at 3 a.m. waiting to kill a deer would be so popular.
*In before one of jfern's "neoliberal warmongering corporatist something something who voted for Iraq War something something*
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