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it's good to look in the mirror and understand the material outcomes of voter behavior (lemmy.cafe)
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I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

And given the shitty system we have, any vote, or non-vote, that wasn't for Kamala was a vote for trump (by way of it being one less vote he needed to win). Can't walk into a chess tournament and start putting checkers on the board just because you don't like chess...gotta change the game first or you just lose and get kicked out.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My crazy idea here is maybe the DNC should run candidates people actually like. There's no way in hell if they ran a primary Kamala would have won the nomination given how unpopular she was as VP.

    Find me one Kamala voter as excited for her candidacy as the average Trump voter was for him, and I'll find you a dozen who were only supporting her because whe wasn't the other guy. Same story with the Biden campaign in 2020 and Clinton before that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    They could have run a dead fish didnt matter for this election. "Boohoo, don't like candidate" isnt a valid excuse this time. Sry, it's the weakest argument outside "oUr PRoTEsT voTe DiDnT matatTer" (mathematically true I'd you ignore any that may have been swayed by their constant pushing of a single issue instead of of everything at risk).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    What? Running a candidate people like is probably the most important thing in an election. And the DNC knew from polling that she was unpopular as a VP. Seriously what on earth are you talking about that having a candidate people like doesn't matter.

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