Whatever your feelings about Amy Klobuchar, this is what I mean about the misogyny.https://twitter.com/pareene/status/1219304094579482626 …
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Replying to @Pinboard
Not sure what you mean. My dad doesn’t live in MN anymore but I vividly remember he was excited she was running in 2006 because he loved her dad when he was younger. This is a thing. Truly can’t figure out where the misogyny is... the dismissiveness? Assumed family advantage?
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Replying to @complexifire
The idea that an accomplished and popular politician 14 years into her Senate career is running on her father's name. Imagine hearing the same thing about Mitt Romney
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Replying to @Pinboard @complexifire
I think you're reading far too much into that - being part of a well-established local political dynasty definitely gives politicians significant advantages on their home ground that may not translate elsewhere
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consider someone like Richard M. Daley he didn't run all of his elections based on his father's name either, but he sure as shit gained an initial advantage and continued to benefit from the association on an ongoing basis
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Replying to @puremalarkey @Pinboard
Right, and I have no idea if someone would have said that about Mitt, governor of MA while his father had been governor of MI (?) but even if they didn’t say it, that wouldn’t mean it wasn’t a real factor
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OK dumb way of putting that. Point is I don’t even know how realistic that scenario would be if it were more comparable (same state), because I’ve never lived in MA or MI... but I do have some small inside info on MN
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Replying to @complexifire @puremalarkey
I get what you mean, and I would take no issue with it in 2006. But after 14 years in Federal office and a bunch of contested elections, ascribing a politician's popularity to the fact that her father was a well-liked newspaper columnist strikes me as odd.
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Replying to @Pinboard @complexifire
well yeah that would be weird, but its not being proposed as a root cause of her ongoing popularity and instead is being put forward as as a partial thesis for why she has difficulty achieving similar popularity in areas that have no positive association with the family name
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I definitely see where you're coming from in terms of it being unnecessarily dismissive of her own accomplishments, but it seems a valid factor to consider in assessing why Amy might not be translating
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I think a simpler way to say this is that a lot of people outside Minnesota have no idea who Amy Klobuchar is, while a familiar name helped her with name recognition in her first Minnesota election.
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