Whenever one phenomenon, i.e. Barack Obama, happens in politics, comparisons are made with everyone and everything that’s even remotely alike. In this case, The Daily Beast reports that a woman named Kamala Harris has won Tuesday’s primaries–putting her on course to become the first African-American and Asian-American woman elected attorney general in California.
Attorney general = not the same as POTUS. Still, The Daily Beast refers to Harris as ‘the female Obama,’ because in the campaign game, budding stars rise quickly.
But maybe the most interesting woman to watch is Kamala Devi Harris, the district attorney for San Francisco, whose Democratic primary win puts her on course to become the first African-American and Asian-American woman elected attorney general in California. Born to one of the first black economics professors at Stanford University and an Indian physician at a time when interracial marriage was still illegal in parts of America, she has already made history. Now, Harris’ challenge is to break through one of the last glass ceilings in California.
