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So many that they've been bleeding into the Democratic Party.
Felt like I was taking crazy pills when Kamala Harris spent the back half of October leaving her very popular VP candidate on the side of the road while doing a whirlwind tour with... Liz fucking Cheney. Between that, importing all of Keir Starmer's UK campaign staffers, and letting Michael Bloomberg manager her social media, it's a wonder she didn't do worse.
Waking up every day and saying the Pledge of Allegiance on a pile of Ayn Rand novels will do that to you.
I honestly think that she should've won but the repubos cheated, as they do every time. There's no way Trump swept every single swing state. All the polls showed it's be a tight race but for Kamala to lose so utterly? Now, I've made fun of election deniers in the past, I see the irony. But its suspect.
When Republicans cheat and win, Democrats stomp their feet but insist there's nothing they can do.
When Republicans cheat and lose, Democrats say "demographics is destiny!" and ignore the problem until the next election cycle.
Eh. Harris was a dogshit campaigner who inherited a dogshit campaign from a senile neoconservative hack with underwater approval numbers. Had Walz been at the top of the ticket (or Pritzker or Baldwin or maybe even Klobacher or Warren) things might have gone differently. Their political instincts were miles better than Harris's, which is why they stomp all over her in the 2020 primary.
No, statistically what happened was about impossible not to mention a shit ton of votes for Donald Cuck that only voted for him and ignored all the other candidates. You can't tell me that many voters only voted for the President and ignored all the other Republican candidates.
Besides all the legal voter suppression there was likely some tabulation machine manipulation. Maga had also infiltrated all levels of the voting system to make sure it was "fair" aka stop the blue no matter what.
If you actually interview the voters themselves, its very easy to see why they loved Trump and hated the rest of the party. Like, their social media routinely says as much. Their favorite news and entertainment channels say as much. They say as much. This is a cult of personality, not unlike with Reagan in '80/'84 or Nixon in '72, where split-tickets and blank bottom ballots swept both Republican Presidents and Dem House Majorities into power.
Oh absolutely. But that's been fucking liberals over since Operation Eagle Eye. Democrats simply don't seem to care. From Michelle Obama to Stacey Abrams to Pete Buttigieg, when they're asked what they can do to resist voters disenfranchisement, the answer is always "Vote Harder".
The "when they go low, we go high" strategy appears to be little more than wishful thinking, as democrats chant "demographics is destiny" in states where more and more of the residents are cut off from the elections process.
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... Right. I just love conservative-lite, all the fascism with none of the stigma 🙄
Seems like it