The Historic Element Of This Election

Kamala Harris just has to be

It’s been a rough election season for all of us. So much negativity, anything positive gets drowned out. If we can find it. But I find it in Kamala.

That’s what I chose to draw about yesterday in my daily live draw. Kamala Harris is an upbeat person, and as tough a prosecutor as she is, as much as she knows the reality of the situation (whatever situation we are talking about), she loves to laugh and dance and smile. It’s infectious.

But that aside, Kamala Harris is about to make history if she and her running mate Joe Biden win the election today. That is something to smile about. If they win, she will be the first woman, person of color and South Asian American to be Vice President.

The Washington Post published an article yesterday about this, the headline of which was Kamala Harris Could Be Quietly On The Brink Of A Historic Leap. It struck me: why “quietly?”

Previous female candidates who ran for high office often were more outspoken about breaking a glass ceiling. Hillary Clinton in 2008, of course, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warrenin 2019, all spoke of it or used the potential historic nature of their election as part of the campaign. In 2008, Sarah Palin ran for VP with presidential candidate John McCain, and her gender…