In a world where she lost by 1.5% and fewer than 250,000 votes across three major swing states, it could easily be the deciding factor. And it’s not plain old misogyny. It’s a belief, sometimes unconscious, that women can’t be “strong.” Are there other “deciding” factors? Sure. But this was one.
It really was a combination of different factors. We do know that she would've won if our people weren't denied their right to vote. Why do we keep letting those assholes deny OUR people's right to vote? In the future, I want to see us beat them at their own game where gerrymandering is concerned.
I think it was less issues with her campaign and more issues with her being tied to Biden, which there was not much she could do to change. Honestly I mostly blame Biden. But you see who Trump is. People still voted for that. Why? Because many men especially see that as strong.
Someone just reminded me that a lot of people in AOC's district voted both for her AND dRump on the same ticket. I forgot about that. I think we need to look into that deeper because that's clearly not something that normally happens. I wonder what percentage of overall voters made that choice...
History: recall the outrage when the Roosevelt dime was introduced.
The artist’s initials became a huge story and the design had to be changed.
They were JS, same as Joe Stalin.
The Christians blew a gasket. We caved.
We are run by theocratic idiots. Still.
It also prevented corporations from hoarding wealth. But those cimpanies stoll thrived. It was a win win situation. The greedy obviously disagreed because here we are again.
Keep in mind that FDR was the one who put his foot down and told the companies flat out that they had to agree to a higher tax rate or no war time government contracts. That ballsy move right there is what put money in the people's hands and built the middle class.
I'm well aware that it wasn't the only factor. But it was a big part of it. Not acknowledging that is a mistake. Machismo is a big reason a lot of men broke for Trump. That's a fact.
i think a much bigger part of it was that she was part of the incumbent admin that had a 30% approval rating. a woman without her baggage could absolutely win
Thankfully, it didn't work in 2020. People were so pissed off at Trump, so anyone was better. That may be how people feel in 2028, too. But Democrats need to give the people something to vote for, not just something to vote against.
Manufactured baggage is a very good way to characterize what Republicans do to win. It works. Their constituents listen to them because Republicans are relentless in repeating manufactured baggage.
Trump: "They're eating the dogs."
Biden and democrats "That's obviously not true, just ignore them."
very true. i hope the Democrats come up with a way of countering it that actually works. but the point is they will run outrageous lies about being a communist whether the candidate is Biden or Lenin, so there's no point in letting it influence your decisions.
Who banned Muslims from coming to this country who strong-armed our allies, who instigated an insurrection and persisted in promulgating the big lie of a rigged election loss, who ran up 1/4 of the total national debt since the beginning of this country during his four years in office
So you think Trump was offering a better deal to US voters than Harris? You think a 34 count convicted felon who royally botched, a global pandemic and was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans,
When did I say that? Point out to me where I said that. Because I fucking didn't. I voted for both Hillary and Kamala. So shut the fuck up. Don't put words in my mouth when you don't know shit about me.
they arent talking to you, they are talking to me. you have your notifications set for any reply to any post in a chain in which you have participated. relax
Well if you’re talking about how the media is in the bag for Trump that’s one thing. If you wanna tell me that the electorate has been intentionally dumbed down for the last 40-50 years so that they’d elect an idiotic five times bankrupt reality show personality who never held elective office
Biden:
- failed to enact any of his campaign promises
- presided over 800k Covid deaths
- spent the year before the election bombing children and hospitals
if you think none of that affected the outcome of the election, i dunno what to tell you. and Harris did nothing to distance herself from that.
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The artist’s initials became a huge story and the design had to be changed.
They were JS, same as Joe Stalin.
The Christians blew a gasket. We caved.
We are run by theocratic idiots. Still.
if you want to think a woman cant win, go ahead. i prefer to think its the policies, not the gender, that voters rejected
Nothing to lose right?
Trump: "They're eating the dogs."
Biden and democrats "That's obviously not true, just ignore them."
- failed to enact any of his campaign promises
- presided over 800k Covid deaths
- spent the year before the election bombing children and hospitals
if you think none of that affected the outcome of the election, i dunno what to tell you. and Harris did nothing to distance herself from that.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/09/donald-trump-is-dropping-bombs-at-unprecedented-levels/