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This hurt us, but the basic story of this election is very obviously inflation.
how can that be when all of rose and red triangle twitter accounts are saying Kamala could have won by going further left?
The problem with the Harris campaign is a lack of enthusiasm.
Donald Trump wants to Make America Again again.
Pretty exciting, right?
Kamala has offered nothing to the American people, just more of the same.
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Which is why she surrounded herself with Republicans. Kamala ran a good campaign given what she was handed. You can’t really argue with any of her decisions, at least in terms of whether or not they would’ve meaningfully changed anything had they been different.
That what happens when you suggest giving free gender transition surgeries to convicted murderers and detained migrants
Time to shift the Democratic Party to the center boys
Booker-Tester 2028
or Booker-Butigieg 2028
Run a candidate who introduced a bill for reparations in the senate, who grew up in E Bay California and Canada … how anyone thought that was an electable fact pattern is amazing (I live in E Bay and have connections to Canada … I’m just stating realities). The Dem elites
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Because Trump is a centrist. Kamala is a progressive. No matter how much you fight this basic truth, it remains true.
Kamala Harris is the most radical Presidential nominee in history.
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People thinking Kamala is too progressive when she’s a centrist at best is insane. The dem base has an education problem
Well. She had a huge history of clips to mine to suggest she was too liberal. And she never forcefully established her centrist credentials, instead choosing to attack Trump as an extremist. The post mortem on her campaign should be fun
Seeing so many of these floating around, they're like the inverse of everything.
Any other takeaway is almost entirely wishcasting (with the exception of the economy)
I think 80% of respondents don't know what those words mean or what policies fall under those umbrellas
Which is insane, because she did everything she could to make moderates and the right feel happy.
The story is that Democrats have to constantly cater to an overwhelming unintelligent electorate
Several prominent Democrats privately express that Kamala Harris will lose the election
I would agree with that, and I’m a Reagan-style conservative.
In fact, one of the reasons I don’t support Donald Trump is because he is *not* a conservative.
Not having any coherent policy views being a plus in modern politics is extremely blackpilling.
There is a massive disconnect between the average responder to this poll and what these terms mean, the average american voter is a fucking moron and cannot accurately describe their beliefs
Yes but I think you coulda replaced her with a several other Dems & it would still be roughly same results. I don’t think it’s about the candidate (somewhat but not a lot), and more about the Party as a whole and what middle of road, non-coastal voters see as who we are.
Partly, though it also maps in some unconventional ways.
I think that Harris is too progressive and that Trump is not conservative enough.
And I voted for Harris, because those answers are consistent with being center-right, anti-populist, anti-protectionist, and anti-Trump.
What do you think people understand as progressive/liberal? Is it in the policies being proposed, or based on the picture in front of them, Armand?
But what do they mean by that, and are they correct in thinking so?
Like is it just on immigration? Measures like abortion, minimum wage, and gun control were pretty popular.
#OPINIÓN | ¿Por qué Kamala escogió a un izquierdista extremo como su vicepresidente?
El Partido Demócrata ahora tiene al gobernador más progresista del país como compañero de fórmula de quien fue la senadora más progresista.
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personal theory that women and people of color are perceived as being more left than men. i'd be curious about kamala and AOC vs say bernie or sherrod brown
That’s the people who turned out though. It’s not the country at large. Had she been more progressive, more of her own natural voters would have come out and the responses there would be different.
It's been a really good month or so for mainstream polling, definitely taking this onboard.
I am welcoming her back home by launching the campaign to draft her for the 2026 Governor race.
In 2016, Trump polled as the more "moderate" candidate. I guess perception is everything.
When the electorate doesn’t think a fascist is too conservative I’m not really sure how that can be combatted.
Rationalization, simple as that. All this time wasted trying to find out why people think they did what they did.
#OPINIÓN | ¿Por qué Kamala escogió a un izquierdista extremo como su vicepresidente?
El Partido Demócrata ahora tiene al gobernador más progresista del país como compañero de fórmula de quien fue la senadora más progresista.
Maybe we need to define and teach what the words ‘progressive’ and ‘conservative’ mean in today’s standards.
The GOP/Trump has been very successful at redrawing the concepts of what progressive/conservative means.
Yep
This is how Trump won in 2016 as well
I’m sorry but I will always maintain establishment GOP like Rubio, McConnell, Haley, etc normalizing him and anti anti Trumpers who gaslight and say we’re crazy to take him at his word are by far the biggest villains
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Trump's problem isn't being too conservative, anyway. He doesn't have guiding principles beyond self-interest.
Now everything rests on Senators Collins and Murkowski and on the justices Trump himself nominated.
Look at the way the CA props went and look at the national election results. People are sick of progressives in their current form.
These labels are utterly meaningless - and polling about them provides zero guidance for the future of American politics - in a world where “conservative” states overwhelmingly support referenda protecting abortion, increasing the minimum wage, and calling for paid family leave.
Donald Trump is not a conservative. Conservatives respect and want to protect traditions and institutions. Trump is trying to change the face of the government as we know it, discredits the media, and science. There is a name for that and it’s not conservatism.
I buy Bernie's logic. Which isn't to say other issues aren't important, but look at the vote demographics.
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It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.
And they’re right.
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