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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

There's still the unknown unknowns of how many people were opposed to the genocide but didn't bother voting in the primary and how many people voted uncommitted but ended up pulling the lever for Harris anyway.

My bet is it wasn't enough to change the election outcome but the simpler story here is that the democrats took the most cowardly possible route and still lost the election.