Man, this thread is moving at warp speed. I was about to reply to a couple things and realized that we had added three pages since those posts.
Anyway, just a couple random observations that have likely been covered in the interim:
1). I think name recognition might be a negative thing these days. It just means that right-wing propagandists have already had a nice long time to fertilize the minds of their base with a narrative. They do a great job of identifying potential opponents and prosecuting them in the eyes of the public with highly consistent and highly coordinated messaging. If Harris or Newsom is the nominee, the right (and by "right," I'm including an army of Russian trolls) has got a box of memes ready to go right at hour zero, and those memes are gonna reinforce their own years-long messages.
For some potential candidates (Harris, Newsom), the GOP is going to land haymakers right from hour zero.
2). Any woman can be president as long as she's deemed likable by other women. That's the rule.
Women love Oprah. They love Michelle Obama. They don't like women who seem the *slightest* bit condescending (Marcia Clark, Hilary Clinton), and those women are likely to lose. I'm afraid Kamala may be in the latter camp.
Anyone who's ever watched a female nurse taking orders from a female physician understands the dynamic.