• nandeEbisu@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Many believe Harris lost in 2024 because voters viewed her as too progressive

    What are they talking about

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      19 days ago

      It sticks out like a sore thumb. Define “many”

      Does that mean “my editor and his owner?”

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        18 days ago

        It’s the same "many many very important people " that trump throws in to his word salads to give the impression of authority

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      18 days ago

      Skimmed other replies… What I didn’t see…

      This quote is actually TRUE. What it doesn’t capture is that it was an intentional smear campaign. People on the left knew she was a center-right Democrat in a similar vein to Biden. But on the right, no matter who runs on the left, they will ALWAYS paint the Dem opponent as too progressive, and people on the right believe it.

      That’s the point… Rather than cowing to that pressure and running people less and less progressive, run an ACTUAL progressive.

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        18 days ago

        Maybe this is a weird semantic difference.

        If she lost more people by being hawkish and right leaning than she lost by being too liberal with social policies that nominally leaned left then that means she was too far right as that lost her more votes than her left leaning policies.

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      18 days ago

      American people outside of very specific online bubbles aren’t, on average, moral or smart people. The amount of “Well, I hate Trump and I voted Biden, but I wouldn’t vote for a radical socialist communist who is, you know and you know” that I’ve heard both from inside the US and, which is very surprising, outside of the US, is both deeply concerning, and made me lose all the hope in the north American continent.
      Voting patterns repeatedly show that those people are more prevalent and/or active than normal humans.

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      18 days ago

      It was mostly sourced from her 2020 campaign that were fodder for commercials. Then there were stuff like her going off on Tulsi Gabbard about not being a democratic party team player that made her look too centrist and establishment for people further left. Another common fodder for commercials are stuff like how the democratic party only cares about black guys with stuff like that 10 point plan for black men becoming wealthy. That stuff would be open to everyone because it’s just marketing really, but the lack of marketing to non-black people is fodder for marketing the democratic party as not caring for any other minority group along with white people. I don’t remember that commercial people hated that was shaming men to vote Harris in some way. That was good fodder for conservatives to paint the democratic party as anti-men