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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

i can't even guess as to why they went quiet. not one guess at all. we will never know.

edit: well they're not quiet now once they get called out

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Their main failure was choosing a half black, half Indian women as their candidate. That in it self is 3 failures. You can have ONE of those things. 2 is highly improbable, 3 is impossible.

This has nothing to do with how I think Harris will perform as president but more to do with how racist and misogynistic this country is.

I truly thing Walz would have done better at the polls.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Her rallies were massive and she was polling 10%+ ahead of Trump when she was seen as progressive.

When she went full blue dog and parroted the same strategy Clinton failed with in 2016, the advantage evaporated and she started polling at or under Trump.

Falsely attributing the failure to misogyny solves nothing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But if it isn't the progressives then it must be men's fault, black people's fault, Muslim people's fault while being the fault of racists, misogynists and Islamiaphobes.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Or you could blame the party instead of the voters.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Rallies don't turn into voters apparently.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

More importantly, they stopped talking about rally size when she went blue dog.

The pictures I've seen of both sides' October rallies looked about the same, very different from her earlier massive rallies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think you might just be racist and sexist if that's your immediate thoughts.

Don't push yours on everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Trump voters are literally waving Nazi flags and wearing misogynistic shirts.

Explain your logic to me of how you came to the conclusion that someone calling out racism and sexism is actually racist and sexist themselves.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Trump voters were never ever going to vote for Harris or any Democratic candidate. It was pure hubris and Folly to think that they could snag some.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Trying to court Trump voters was definitely a mistake. The strategy should have been to energize progressives.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've said it before and I'll say it again. John Fetterman would have won easily. Americans pick based on appearance.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, another centrist. That will surely work this time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Centrist is a label based on a candidate's position on issues.

I claim that doesn't matter. Image matters.

Fetterman is a large white male that makes Trump look weak. That's all that matters.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

??? This is about the election that just happened.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I'd say they vote based on matching identities "(s)he's like me".