(11-08-2024, 11:49 AM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote:

(11-07-2024, 01:05 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: What a bunch of losers Kamala supporters are.

https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/18...E5EXw&s=19

Clay Travis

@ClayTravis
Imagine having a billion dollars more to spend on your campaign than your opponent, 95% of all media running propaganda for you, and still losing voters in every state compared to 2020. Because that’s what Kamala just did. It’s honestly staggering.

Here's my take on that:
1) Kamala didn't "lose" the election based on her campaign as I think she did as good as anyone possibly could have done, taking over for someone that had a 37% (or something like that) approval rating.
2) Kamala lost due to inflation and other economic factors.
3) Kamala lost due to her past statements on fracking, transgender operations for prisoners, and other far left views that was hard to overcome by her left-center based campaign.
4) I think the Dems did a great job transitioning from Biden and right now, I'm happy it wasn't Biden.  The reason I say this is because if Biden would have lost, the Dems would have blamed age and current competence factors of Biden.  NOW, we need to look further and blame the entire DEM direction the party has taken over the past 10 years (since Obama).
5) Regarding #2, this does not take away from the Trump movement as he WON the election.  The reason I say Kamala lost due to economic factors is because the Dems voting population is far greater than the Republican voting population and based on that, the Dems should be favored in every race.  With that in mind, it's the Dems election to lose every 4 years and we've managed to do so quite often, considering the population imbalance.

Finally, still pretty amazing what has transpired since the 2022 Failed Red Wave; just didn't realize the 2024 Red Tsunami was coming....

It's too early on the process to say any of that for sure.
The key question is, why did 10 million Biden voters stay home?  Some of that answer, at least in Michigan, is the Gaza war.  But it had to be more than that, I think.
In my opinion, someone who is completely capable of voting, and simply decides not to, is usually the lowest of the low information voters. Completely unengaged. College educated people like us want to find some sort of policy position that makes a difference for people like that, but there simply isn't one. It's personality, it's emotions, and it's the fact that it was much easier to get a mail-in ballot in 2020 than it was in 2024.
Kamala failed to connect with most lower income people.  It's simple.  Democrats always protest that "Well Trump is a lot less similar to those people than Kamala is," and that's true, but it's irrelevant.  Trump was always going to get his share of low income people, people who know he's always been rich, but who think he fights for them.  Kamala wasn't ever going to persuade those folks.  What she needed to do, and failed to do, was engage those who are lower income, hard luck, not very educated, who don't vote for anyone.  Biden accomplished that.  She failed.

Democrats need to find someone, more like Bill Clinton and Joe Biden, who has that common touch.

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