Democratic Voters Don't See Kirsten Gillibrand As A Potential President-- And She Can't Understand Why

Remember Kirsten Gillibrand? She was picked by the Democratic establishment for the Hillary Clinton Senate seat when Hillary went to work for Obama as Secretary of State, in preparation for a presidential bid. Gillibrand was an attractive, albeit unaccomplished, woman from the right-of-center Blue Dog coalition, an upstater for a seat that had to go to someone not from the City. Recently, when I started the Worst Democraps Who Want To Be President series, she was #2-- and she's the only one that got an official Worst Democraps-Update.

Over the weekend she was in New Hampshire to show voters there why she's a worst Democrap. Poor thing rarely breaks the 1% mark in the polls. The new Monmouth poll of New Hampshire Democratic primary voters shows her at less than 1%. Three of her female colleagues in the Senate are doing better than she is. Elizabeth Warren is at 8%, Kamala Harris at 6% and Amy Klobuchar is at 2%. Elizabeth Warren is also voters too choice for second place and Kamala Harris is the second highest scoring in that category. Gillibrand? Not so much-- just 1% of voters say she's be their #2 choice.

In Iowa she's at 1%. Voters don't like her int South Carolina either; nor in Nevada. The most recent national poll has her at 1%. Most of the other women in the race are doing better than she is. And yet... she told CNN while she was campaigning in New Hampshire that she thinks her inability to get any traction is because of "gender bias. I think people are generally biased against women. I think also biased against young women. There's just bias and it's real and it exists, but you have to overcome it."

She also seems upset that she's virtually the only candidate who can't reach the 65,000 donor mark that would qualify her for the debates. Calling the rule "random and inaccurate," she said it's "an odd measurable. Like, why do you make that your measurable as opposed to have you won elections before and have you ever run statewide before and how many votes have you gotten before and have you passed legislation and are you effective in your job?"

Maybe Latinos don't like her because they remember how she treated them

She's getting a little bitter about how she's being received. People don't see her as a potential leader. Many Democrats are repulsed by her record, her flip-flops, her opportunism... and, of course, by the way she treated Al Franken. But it's much easier to blame her gender than than to look inward and face the unpleasant truth about herself.

Cory Booker isn't doing too well and he isn't going to win the nomination either. Will he say it's because he's African-American. Will Pete Buttigieg blame it on homophobia? Will Beto say people are prejudiced against Irishmen? Skateboarders? Texans? Skateboarding Irish Texans? There are unevolved souls you have a bias against women, against people of different races, religions, ethnicities... you name it. But plenty of voters are looking at the candidates and picking Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, who are both A-list contenders. Gillibrand isn't. Many voters say they want a woman on the ticket-- just not Kirsten Gillibrand. Her whining about being a woman is part of who she is and part of why voters don't like her. If New Yorkers were smart they would have dumped her long ago.

Inauthentic and creepy