• Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Harris: 75,012,178 votes
        Trump: 77,302,416 votes
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        3 million people voted third party, nearly 90 million people didn’t vote at all- and you blame democrats….
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          2 months ago

          Yes. Democrats alienating the people whose votes they need to win is absolutely a democrat problem.

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            2 months ago

            You’re not owed your ass kissed for a vote. That’s not how it works. A candidate has to try to appeal to more than single issue voters. Historicity this has been proven true.

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              No one is asking for their asses to be kissed, we’re asking for a campaign that appeals to enough voters in the party’s own base as opposed to courting voters in the other party’s base.

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                2 months ago

                And I said a candidate needs to appeal to a wider audience than to court single issue voters. If those single issue voters understood this, maybe things would have gone differently.

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                  Yes, maybe things would have gone differently if they had done anything to appeal to people with a proven track record of voting blue (including opposing genocide in Gaza, which most Democrat voters oppose) rather than trying to appeal to imaginary “moderate Republicans”. I guess we’ll never know!