• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Why did she spend so much time courting Republicans? It’s a mystery

    Was it was the billion dollars she “raised” in a few months? Trump raised about 900 million in four years, she raised a billion in months. Unprecedented.

    Standard US political wisdom reveals that neither D (30%) or Rs (30%) can win an election without Independent voters (40% of voters). So, you need to have an independent issue or three to get enough votes to win.

    Kamala only spent a few months, and she spent a lot of it on Republicans (various articles about this before election, Politico, Hill). The math doesn’t work, that’s not how you win elections. That’s not how anyone wins elections. It would have been unprecedented for her to win, also.

    I think she took a knee, if you can come up with another reason I would love to hear it, for real. This is very disturbing to me and I wish I had never come to this conclusion, but can think of no other reason.

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      8 days ago

      Why did she spend so much time courting Republicans? It’s a mystery

      Not a mystery. That’s what the overpriced consultants the DNC hired told them to do. They said to stop using the slogan never back and told Tim Walz to stop calling Trump and Vance weird.

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      8 days ago

      Dems should be courting the “non voters”. They are 30% of the electorate, and you’re not going to change a Trump supporter’s mind.