The three top contenders all have issues. Biden isn’t inspiring or particularly progressive and has gained a reputation as a creepy old uncle, Sanders is the oldest (not by very much, but his recent heart attack and public image reinforce it) and is carrying baggage from last election (for example, I know a family member that absolutely loathes him and blames him single-handedly for Trump’s victory), and Warren is a woman in a country of misogynists and arguably not as consistently progressive as Sanders has been in the past.
My hope is that Clinton lost for alienating progressive voters, non-voters and independents both because of her own actions and because she was the target of a constant stream of lies and attacks for pretty much her entire career, rather than only because she was a woman, and a more progressive woman with less of a vendetta leveled against her might fare better.
But really, who knows? The last election and following years have completely destroyed my ability to relate to or feel as though I could predict the behavior of my fellow Americans. The fact that undecided voters and non-voters even still exist after years of Trump just baffles me. Maybe they’ll vote for Trump because of their horoscope, or Warren because they like the color of her eyes, or Sanders because they glanced at an empty KFC bucket on the way to the polls.
