• 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!

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                  I compromised on my morals by voting for Harris. Fat lot of good that did me. I learned a lesson, but I doubt that the Dems did.

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                    I hope you didnt learn the wrong lesson. I was doing post mortem on arguments I had before the election and you came up. Decided to check in on you. My heart was so full after reading this. I know we didn’t have the impact we wanted but to see you put aside grievances and made the hard choice is moving me right now. I wanted so badly for you to be astroturfing when I clicked your name but to find this was much much better and gave me a glimpse of some long lost hope I use to have.