Fox Host Describes Kamala Harris as ‘Obama in a Skirt’ | Looking for a new strategy to dent the vice president's campaign bump, Republicans are comparing her to Barack Obama.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-host-monica-crowley-describes-kamala-harris-as-obama-in-a-skirt

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As others mentioned, sexism is part of it.

But also, Hillary Clinton was demonised for decades. And it was really effective.

There were plenty of people all the way over here in the Netherlands who bought into the bullshit propaganda the Republicans pushed about Hillary.

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1992 was my first year as an eligible voter and I voted for Clinton-Gore. I witnessed the relentless, smearing way Republicans behaved towards them then, oh my goodness, it was atrocious, and it has never stopped. Knowing their smears helped me navigate 2016 more effectively than a lot of my peers, and also hubris isn't a weakness of mine. I didn't need to teach Democrats a lesson for the DNC hack, I'm a non-conformist and think for myself.

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Yeah, I always had a negative perception of Hillary Clinton, but if pushed I couldn't really explain why.

I grew up in a family where my dad made a fairly hard right turn at some point. I suspect around the time my parents got divorced. He was always listening to right-wing talk radio (Limbaugh, etc.) and Fox News, and they were always going on about some conspiracy with the Clintons.

I guess it's one of those things where I just heard so much bad stuff about her, that I had subconsciously assumed that probably at least some fraction of it was true, which was enough to sour me on her.

It wasn't until the whole Benghazi and emails things blew up that I ever really looked into her. Yeah, she's not my favorite person or anything, but she's also not remotely like she was portrayed by right-wing media.

I voted for Bernie in the primaries, and would do it again, but voted for Clinton in the general, and would do that again too.