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  • Doubledee [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    What are you suggesting we blame it on? My gut impulse has been to say it was a bad strategy that didn’t mobilize the voters Dems won with before, while Trumps turnout was static. Which I think is kinda a turnout based argument but if that’s a mistake I want to catch and stop that now.

    • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      17·
      2 months ago

      Low turnout is a reflection of the campaign and the current administrations favorability. Harris didn’t break away far enough from Biden’s policies on all fronts which left the base drained of enthusiasm. Turning to the right alienated the progressive wing of voters. Simple as.

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        I don’t think it was alienating progressive voters, otherwise we’d see more votes for Stein and West, etc. I think she simply didn’t get people excited enough to vote.

        I’d like to think that a plurality of voters are explicitly progressive, but it’s a better explanation that popular policy and messaging gets people out, and unpopular policy and messaging doesn’t.

        • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          7·
          2 months ago

          alienating progressive voters
          get people excited enough to vote

          These seem like the same thing to me. Couldn’t a progressive who feels alienated by the campaign also fully believe that Stein and maybe even West are agents of Russia and not want to vote for them? Could they have shown up and instead only voted on down ballot races instead?

          I’d like to think that a plurality of voters are explicitly progressive, but it’s a better explanation that popular policy and messaging gets people out, and unpopular policy and messaging doesn’t.

          I agree with this. People either feel like someone has answers to their anxieties about the future, or they don’t. When they feel like they don’t, they become non-voters.