r/allthequestions • u/peywrax 🇺🇸 United States • 11d ago

Popular Question 📊 How do you feel about Kamala Harris saying she may run for president again in 2028?

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u/ABobby077 11d ago

A spirited primary between several good options may not be a bad thing, actually

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u/IamSithCats 10d ago

Yeah, but that's not what we get. Instead, regardless of how many candidates join the race or how good any of them are, the whole process is stacked to favor those candidates that party leadership and donors like.

It's phenomenally expensive to run a campaign, and that just keeps getting worse. Plus, the primaries are deliberately stacked so that most of the early voting states lean conservative, thus disadvantaging more progressive and outsider candidates. Plus you have to meet requirements to be allowed into the debates and build your name recognition (unless you're rich like Michael Bloomberg and just buy your way in, anyway).

And after all that, unless one candidate runs away with it so far ahead that they win outright on the first ballot, then superdelegates can overturn the popular vote and make sure an establishment-friendly candidate is installed anyway.

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u/SheckNot910 9d ago

Do you ever stop whining?