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Punish the Democrats, she says (europe.pub)
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[–] 33 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

While you and I can look at this and go “Wow, that’s not logical, she’s way better than Trump”, the Democratic campaign should have had political scientists and psychologists that knew about this well-documented phenomenon. I imagine they did, and ignored it, because siding against Israel would’ve cost money.

D and R parties both need independent voters to win any election. For example, even if every D voted for a D, they would lose without independents voting for them in significant numbers. This has been a political fact for many years.

So... why did the Harris campaign target REPUBLICAN voters (instead of Ds and independents)? They wasted a lot of vital time on that ("He doesn't need to know who you voted for" etc), and they knew that they would lose if they did so.

She knew it too, Harris isn't stupid. She took a knee.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I'm not fully convinced the conspiracy is that deep, but also if hard evidence came out saying so, I wouldn't be surprised.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    I’m not fully convinced the conspiracy is that deep, but also if hard evidence came out saying so, I wouldn’t be surprised.

    You don't have to believe my word, but answer this question. You are a Democratic veteran. You KNOW for a FACT that you need Democratic and Independent voters to win. Simple mathematics demands that you do so to win.

    Why, oh why, would you pursue the Republican vote? They've never done this before in a Presidential election. It can't work. It's never worked before, anyway.

    This was discussed openly during the campaign, tons of Republican outreach and advertising with the Harris run... why?

    I cannot think of any other reason, I would actually feel a lot better if there was a logical reason, somebody help my troubled mind

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I think they sorta reasonably might have thought kamala would be another Bernie, who was pulling republicans from trump during the primaries against Hilary. They thought kamala had that sort of appeal.

    It's not sound logic, but I think someone in politics who doesn't understand what drew people to Bernie could see the parallels and conclude if they focus on it, they can draw those Republicans in.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I think they sorta reasonably might have thought kamala would be another Bernie, who was pulling republicans from trump during the primaries against Hilary

    And then acted entitled to the votes of a hostage electorate, just like Clinton did.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago*

    I think they sorta reasonably might have thought kamala would be another Bernie

    Reasonably? For what reason?

    Bernie didn't win the Presidential election. He couldn't even win the nomination.

    "Let's try something that has failed, instead of doing something fundamental that we have repeatedly used before to win elections."

    "Let's try this idea! It's just Trump, who has won before. No worries"

    Come on, she is not that stupid.

    They are not that stupid.

    Side note: They collected over a billion dollars for this failure (that we know of). New record!

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