politics

The claim is against the nation, not any one individual voter. She's right.

I get flamed around here so often cause I will call out protest non voters at every given opportunity. I really hope it is worth the literal cost of human lives they sacrificed to enjoy the smell of their own farts.

Edit: I love that I pissed off at least two of you lazy fucks.

Edit 2: holy shit, I'm surprised I got back to positive numbers.

They simultaneously had a great effect- and had absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election.

Its undeniable that Harris lost on the margins in a number of critical swing Midwestern states. And that she dramatically underperformed among Muslim voters in these states. So you can point to - say - Rashida Tlaib's MI-12 district and notice how she ran far behind her outspokenly anti-genocide Congressional peer, while the Dem running for the Michigan Senate Seat won her race that same year. Meanwhile, you can look at her performance in Florida or Texas and notice how her tack to the right failed to pick up any conservative voters in Big Red States.

And you can conclude that Harris's decision to embrace Liz Cheney and Cindy McCain in the last weeks of the election didn't do her any favors. You might even conclude that it hurt her chances.

At the same time, you could notice that Trump managed to top his 2016 and 2020 turnout, conclude Harris simply didn't have what it took to win in the face of a MAGA wave year, and just scratch 2024 off as a bad year for Democrats that was beyond any campaign-level antics to fix.

Meanwhile, you can pop over to NYC in 2025 and note how Andrew Cuomo - running a very Biden-esque conservative democrat campaign for mayor in a city that has historically rewarded conservative candidates (Giuliani, Bloomberg, and Adams) - got utterly washed by an outspoken DSA State Senator. So, clearly something in the political landscape is changing.

Someone call science.

The problem with elections is that they aren't neatly reproducible. So you can observe and document the results. And you can speculate on cause and effect. But you're juggling a lot of variables that can shift within margin of error of one another in confusing ways.

How do you explain Hillary and Harris losing to Trump by inches while Biden won in a landslide? Two ladies and a dude. Must be gender that done it.

Alternatively, you can claim Hillary and Harris were too conservative and Biden was "The Most Leftist President since FDR".

Alternatively, you can just blame pendulum politics and note Hillary and Harris were following Dem Presidents while Biden got to run against an unpopular Republican.

Idfk. But its not something you can just throw the Periodic Table at to get an answer.

TBF we elected the white man with the exact same platform and owners as Kamala.

The only real difference between her and Biden was her skin color and gender.

I'd say it's pretty hard for a woman to both have enough experience to be taken seriously as a candidate and simultaneously have no past baggage or party agenda.

And I don't think most male candidates are held to that standard, either.

The misogyny is palpable. In the country as a whole.

People laugh but I 100% believe AOC would win.

Nope, I'll just never vote for a chick to be president.

Also thank fuck she has no intentions of getting back into politics! But we had a kinda progressive option with Bernie. And the corpo dems torpedoed him harder than they ever fought against trump.