Explain to me again why we must have a man on the top of the ticket to win?

By Faith Chatham - Jan. 7, 2019

Lupe Valdez had a smaller war chest than any of the previous five Texas governor Democratic nominees, yet got more votes than the four previous male nominees and of Wendy Davis. Lupe also got the most votes in a primary featuring 6 men. She was only a few points shy of avoiding a run-off.

Hillary Clinton's campaign did not deploy a field team to Texas in 2016 until the last six weeks of he campaign, yet she got more votes than any previous Democratic Nominee on the ballot in Texas. More Texans voted for Hillary, a state where little advertising was spent, than in most of the battle ground states where the campaign invested heavily.

In 2018, in every Congressional District in Texas where there was a woman running in the Democratic Primary except 2, the woman won.

Women are running and women are winning. So explain to me again. Help me understand why it is necessary for a man to be on the top of the ticket in 2020 for Democrats to win?

Granted, 60% of Republican men have been reported to say that they do not want to see a woman elected President in their lifetime. That leaves 40% of the Republican men who  do not seem to mind.  And since all Democratic men and all Republican men combined make up less than 49% of the US Population, it seems to me that the 60% of women hating Republican men are definately in the minority.

I think what we need to do is to continue registering and getting progressives out to vote. 
We need to continue changing the culture by changing women. We need to continue showing women that when we run, we do win. When we win, we do serve. When we serve, we improve things for us, for our families, for our communities, for our nation and the world.

Let's continue reminding people that:

And that Ann Richards ignored them when ...

Despite what they said to Sylvia Garcia and Veronica Escobar:

Nellie Ross ignored them when ...

Lupe Valdez didn't see why she couldn't be sheriff when ..

They told Barbara Jordan:

When she considered running for Congress...

It's nothing new. Women have been hearing the same tired ole lines:

If you lose an election, the nay sayers get louder:

In 2018, Terry Meza beat the GOP male incumbent by more than 4,000 votes.

Hillary Clinton heard:

Donors looked at Hillary's numbers and decided that many districts they thought were "too Red to win" weren't quite so red. They gave money to challengers and...

So that brings us back to where we began. Women are more than 51% of the US Population. We comprise 24% of the House and 25% of the Senate. In 2018, in Texas in all US Congressional Districts except two, women beat every man on the ballot. Similar number were reflected in returns in other states. 

Democrats have a strong track-record of electing women and minorities to public office. Only 60% of the White male Republicans says they do not want to see a woman elected president in their lifetime. 

For example, if Republicans have been getting 55% to 60% of the vote and half of them are men,

then only 27.5% to 30% of the voters are Republican men. Only 60% of the Republican men say they don't want to see a woman elected President in their lifetime -- so that is only 60% of 27.5% to 30% of the voters. That is far from being a majority. It is probable that a significant number of the remaining 40% of Republican men and of the Republican women are open to voting for a qualified woman. Democratic men have been voting for women for decades. Democratic women are running and helping other women win.

So, again, explain to me why it is so important to run a man at the top of the ticket?