AOC or bust: New poll finds NY congresswoman or ‘no one’ are top choices for face of Democratic Party

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-democratic-party-leader-poll-b2751691.html

36 comments

  1. A weird number of people on reddit: “But no one actually likes AOC.”

    **EDIT**: Case in point, the replies. Someone literally arguing with me that this poll *doesn’t* show she’s the most popular candidate, because he doesn’t know math, and then blocked me.

  4. She should run for Senate. Schumer is incredibly unpopular and even if he decides against retiring, she could beat him in the primary and there are no republican New Yorkers who could compete in that race.

    Her “I will not yield to disrespectful men,” line today would make for a great tag in that primary or at large.

  7. I’m okay with that, but it’s early days yet. I wouldn’t read anything into this. I can remember when everyone was so sure Jeb would be a hot contender.

  8. I’m all for AOC!
    But
    Not voting because you don’t have your preferred choice is irresponsible.
    This is how we got where we are today. Everyone must vote or we are never going to regain our country!

  9. You know what she’s actually grown up a lot the last few years and she’s actually a lot more tempered. I will support her. I think she’s sharp.

  10. When our constitution is rescribed and corrected, I want AOC to put her Big ass John Hancock signature on it.

  11. For me it’s less about is it AOC and more about is it not Schumer, Pelosi, or any other Old Guard of the party. The Democrats almost had their revolution instead of the GOP when Sanders nearly won the nomination. Polling indicated that a significant enough subset of independent voters liked Sanders more than Trump, but liked Trump more than Clinton. This country would be nothing like it is now if he had won, and a progressive agenda was and still is popular with the people.

    At the end of the day most voters want significant change, and Trump can’t give it to them the way he promised. There’s still an opportunity to turn people away permanently from the GOP’s regressive politics, but that requires politicians that are willing (and able) to ignore the wealthy donors that bet on both horses so they never lose.

  12. Let’s not anoint someone as face of Dem party, we tried that already and it didn’t work out so great .

  13. Is anyone surprised? Watch any of her speeches and listen to the issues she focuses on: working class struggles, civil rights and liberties, accountability in government – all subjects the Democratic party is allegedly “supposed” to champion and yet has clearly abandoned.

    Her opening remark at the Los Angeles rally was, and I quote,

    >We’re all here together because **we share a frustration and heartache that comes from watching those in power actively tear down or refuse to fight for everyday working Americans like us**.

    >And we are here together because an extreme concentration of power, greed, and corruption is taking over this country like never before. Oligarchy in America.

    >**We must acknowledge the terrifying moment that we are in right now, and that what we are seeing and hearing with our own eyes and ears** **is in fact happening**.

    >We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends be fired, targeted, and disappeared. **It is real**.

    >People we love are being targeted and harassed for being trans or queer. Our coworkers, US citizens and immigrants alike, are being disappeared off the street by men in vans with no uniform. Educators are being fired for teaching American history accurately, and activists are being detained with no charge or evidence for using their First Amendment rights, especially when they use them for Palestinians.

    >In fact, the Trump administration admits that it has jailed Mahmoud Khalil, a young husband and father from New York, without any evidence or charge of a crime. The Trump administration admits that they have thrown Mahmoud in a cell thousands of miles away because he attended a protest and are detaining him for the contents of his speech and nothing more.

    >In fact, **Donald Trump’s detention of someone like Mahmud Khalil for his speech** **is** **anti-American**. And we demand his release, and the release of Rumeysa Ozturk, who he is also jailing for writing an op-ed in her school paper. **And we demand their release because we, Los Angeles, we do have power in this moment.** **All of us do.**

    She’s one of the few voices speaking to this absolutely significant portion of the population right now. Why wouldn’t she be the obvious choice?

  14. People want the policies they believe she represents. Don’t get it backwards.

  15. I know a lot of people have a problem with her, but it feels like she’s the only person who is fired up, speaking truth, and able to get attention. There are plenty of decent people in the Democratic party, but few are as able to get the attention she gets, and in this day and age that’s hugely important.

  17. She has not shown any of the necessary pragmatism to be a savvy politician. No governing experience. She appealed to the Bernie crowd and pretty much no one else. I’m calling a bull trap.

  19. Fuck Chuck Schumer. Go home old man. You’re so out of touch that we’re not even in the same timeline. AOC at least understands the times we live in and the danger facing the nation. Schumer still thinks this is 20 years ago, smoke and mirrors, where both sides talk shit about each other and then come together in a bipartisan manner and go out for drinks after.

  22. White republicans voting for a lil Spanish girl? What universe y’all living in can I join?

  24. Wow, who among the Democratic leadership could have foreseen that the base would respond to someone who legitimately cares about their wellbeing?

  25. I don’t disagree but the “no one” strategy is exactly how the people are in this mess right now.

  26. The US electorate will not elect a woman as president. It sucks, but that’s the reality.

  27. Little early in the election cycle to try and kneecap the Democratic party. 😒

  28. Terrible idea. AOC is great but I’m sure the lame duck democrats would love to have her presidency wasted on cleaning up trumps messes instead of making any real progress that could damage them from ripping off their voters. She should wait and take a different position for now

  29. AOC or no one? Serious!?! It’s no wonder GOP have us on the ropes. I’m not knocking AOC but WTF is the “or no one” part of that statement?

    If our voters considered the alternative of them not supporting our candidates Trump would have NEVER won an election!

  30. i’m center left and not exactly thrilled at the prospect of aoc but i know im not unhappy. i will gladly support her all the way to the presidency

  32. They do realize the past 2 extremely qualified women to run for president lost against the least qualified man to ever run for president, right?

  33. No. She is too radical left. We need a moderate centrist left leaning white man. We should have had such candidate this election instead Harris

  34. If it’s AOC we will lose. Unfortunately, at this time it has to be a straight white male.

  35. AOC would be a boss. But I have lost all hope in Americans to elect a qualified woman. It would be risky imo to run her. I don’t want to play into the sexism by discouraging her running but god i cannot imagine another 4 years with the crazies I will lose it

  36. People seem to be really missing the point about why this is bad. Yeah AOC is great, genuinely, I think she would make a great president. But it isn’t about AOC, obviously the issue here is the other thing

    Why do Democrats drag their feet with this? Even when they recognise that they’ve genuinely reached the point where there simply are no options to pick, it clearly hasn’t set off the alarm bells that it was supposed to, because they’ve just done the bare minimum to have *a* candidate, and effectively kicked the can down the road. This isn’t just about the next election, this is about setting up an entire generation of politicians, and theyre giving the other side a *huge* headstart. I don’t want a future where my generation is represented by “big balls” and Co.

    This feels like they took the issue of democratic voters not getting much control on the candidates, abs instead of trying to fix it, they went “well, it doesn’t actually seem to be a problem for us, so I guess we’re just gonna stop hiding it now”, this is exactly the opposite direction they need to go in

    They don’t lose voters when they do this, because they’ve always done this, and they never had those votes to lose in the first place. There is an entire flock of potential voters just waiting for the right statistic to become a part of, but they aren’t going to land on any of the charts until they find it. They will, but it will be in the “non voter” category, where we assume they aren’t serious and end the conversation there

    They don’t need to connect with voters as an organisation, they really don’t. All they need is representation. You just need some people in the party that actually *are* part of whatever demographic. You don’t get that if you don’t get options, and hopefully they figure that out one day

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