I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

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    Okay I’m getting sick of the whole “the dems failed us” bullshit.

    WE failed. WE let this happen. WE had the choice between an obvious dictator or continued democracy.

    You can shift the blame all you want but at the end of the day it was an obvious choice. You can come up with any other excuse you want. If you didn’t vote for Harris you are to blame. Period. End of fucking story.

    Edit: The dems should’ve been able to run a wet paper bag against Trump and win. The fuck is wrong with people to not see that?

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      the dems failed us

      the dems should have been able to run a wet paper bag and win

      sounds like identical statements to me

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        Not really considering it was the voters who willingly voted for Trump just to spite Harris.

        It’s literally cutting off your nose to spite your face.

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          it was the voters who willingly voted for Trump just to spite Harris

          it wasn’t. if every spite vote for Trump had been reallocated to Harris, the election wouldn’t shift by even more than one ~electoral college vote~ swing state.

          • yes those individuals behaved stupidly.
          • no, they are not a valid excuse for the democratic party to have abandoned the needs of the country.
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            if every spite vote for Trump had been reallocated to Harris, the election wouldn’t shift by even one electoral college vote.

            Just making shit up I guess… Or do you have access to some dataset nobody else has?

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              i’m making this claim based on the uncommited movement numbers.

              i also corrected a slight over statement as i forgot about the case of michigan. thank you for your input.

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      I share your sentiment. If you had any sort of idea, even the faintest inkling of trump, literally a corpse should have been elected, I think many of the electorate don’t know anything about their politicians, and just vote a certain way “cause that’s how we’ve always done it”. The last election, elected a dictatorial fascist, and the alternative was to pinch your nose and apply pressure for Kamala to go left.