Why did Kamala lose ?

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Anonymous wrote:I wasn’t surprised but give me your best analysis.

America is as misogynistic as Saudi Arabia. America is still racist and sexist.

Biden was correct. He was the only one who could beat trump.

Dems should learn well how to mimic Trump's Roy Cohn lessons on winning--lie, cheat, steal, murder. Do anything but win.

May God have mercy on our democracy. Trump has the entire government and he will eviscerate the Bill of Rights. Even worse, is Vance as President because Trump's health is so bad that don't be surprised if he keels over before
Jan. 20.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with all above.

One thing I don’t understand - seeing lots of reports of long lines. When that happens, elections tend to go blue. How didn’t it happen this time?

Republicans pushed early voting hard this year - something they dismissed in 2020.

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Harris just isn’t a great politician. She got ahead using machine politics and that protected her for years and she wasn’t ready for a real fight for votes.

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She was boring and had no rizz.

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Anonymous wrote:Depressed about result but at least this time I'm not surprised, these are some of the issues the independent people I know have said that are pulling them away from Democrats.

-lenient with illegal immigration
-tremendous impopularity of refugee cities whose budgets have been impacted by dealing with flood of migrants
-emphasis on wokeness, trans issues, DEI (all things that I care about but average person does not)
-perception that Trump will bring more blue collar jobs back home
-tremendous impopularity of Biden
-handling of Israel/Gaza war

+1. And Biden calling people “garbage” a week before the election didn’t help either (though I thought her response and distance to his comments was good).

Trump was calling Pierre ricans garbage a week before the election, called for the suppression of the free press, and for Liz Cheneys execution all in the past week. Not sure why Dems are judged on a double standard. The question isn’t why Kamala lost - it’s why did trump win despite all of his disqualifying factors including counted felonies, staging a coup, being twice impeached for quid pro quo and trying to obstruct democracy, his general vileness and all the other corruption of his first term.

And I honestly have no idea. I am completely puzzled. Trump is a disaster of a candidate. My best guess is that voters just didn’t “like” Kamala for the same reasons they didn’t “like” Hillary- deeply rooted misogyny. The war in Gaza also likely fractured democratic support, not unlike Bernie bros in 2016.

Hilary and Kamala are two deeply unlikable women. I held my nose and voted for both but neither one have a shred of likability.

Oh stop, both are good kind nice people. Far more likable than Trump.
But in America, women have to be Mother Teresa. Men just need a pulse

Nope. Tulsi is a veteran and men would vote for her over a male Dem candidate like Walz or Shapiro all day.

True.

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she didn’t attend the Al Smith dinner
it was foretold

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well you call half the nation nazis or garbage, you fight to allow mentally ill men to compete against your daughters in sports and force their daughters to change in locker rooms with grown men, you let in large swaths of illegal aliens to sick already expensive resources and take over apartment complexes and run gangs, you spend 100s of billion on a war overseas while Americans can’t afford their grocery and utilities, you rig with a candidate who wasn’t even elected but appointed to “save democracy”, you make abortion your top priority when most Americans don’t care for it, you gaslight the public for three and half years by putting Mr Magoo in charge of the nuclear codes, you select a VP who gives people the creeps and you spend the last four years telling men they’re sexist misogynist pigs and they’re the problem.

I think that about covers it.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:-immigration / failure to seal the border

-referendum on Biden / DNC for forcing a candidate on us we didn’t want

-rebuke on some “far left” positions and policies like wokeness, trans, “free money” for unhoused / refugees

This +100.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harris lost in part because she’s a woman of color.

However, Harris lost mostly because her campaign never understood what’s motivating most Americans at the polls — namely, jobs and inflation.

She ran a better campaign than Clinton and was royally screwed by Biden, who should have dropped out much earlier. But ultimately she made the same mistake as Clinton.

Stop. The same mistake as Clinton is not having a penis. It’s sexism, that’s it.

This is such a small-minded, anti-intellectual take. Stop reducing women to nothing but their uteruses.

[Anonymous]

Lazy, ignorant, uninspiring…I could go on…

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Anonymous wrote:Turns out the people don’t like inflation and mass illegal immigration.

Or women or democracy or loyalty to country or the LAW or facts and science.

As a molecular biologist/immunologist I can’t wait to see what our next health czar does with the next pandemic or biological terror event. OMFG

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bc the majority of Americans are morons

Morons have the right to vote. Target your campaign accordingly.

[Anonymous]

No, Kamala didn’t lose—it's that the far-left liberals, the Democratic machine, the media, big tech, and corrupt billionaires lost. More than losing, Trump won: he secured the popular vote, the electoral college, the House, and the Senate. It was a crushing victory. Now he need to clean de house and payback tine is here!

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It's so refreshing finally to see people reckoning with what was really wrong. I had so much trouble contending with the young women in my work place yesterday saying how upset they will be if she loses because it means half of America hates women. It was so disappointing to realize how unthinking and lacking in critical thinking women who can vote only the issue of abortion are. In any event, I think Kamala and the dems were very disingenuous and, as always, hypocritical. If they really believed in a woman president, why did they pick a white man--who hunts and owns a gun-as her running mate. They should have picked a woman, or at the very least, a Black man, as her running mate. Otherwise, it was clear she was just a DEI hire who would be able to say, "look at how sexist half the country is" when she lost.

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Because there's no way a lot of people were going to vote for a Black woman.