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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhatever happens, I refuse to fault Kamala Harris.
She ran the best damn campaign she could given the way she came to lead the party ticket.
Dem4life1234
(1,472 posts)It's the fault of stupid asses in this country and the lame stream media.
She's too good for this shit hole.
MaryMagdaline
(7,858 posts)iemanja
(54,728 posts)Farmgirl1961
(1,643 posts)ZonkerHarris
(25,235 posts)Ocelot II
(120,601 posts)And I don't understand how, knowing what Trump is, people voted for him instead of her. Misogyny? Racism? Russian interference?
Freddie
(9,686 posts)Way too many people just cant stand a smart successful woman. Even many women.
lees1975
(5,873 posts)LSparkle
(11,725 posts)Smells like Putin.
womanofthehills
(9,215 posts)The Republicans had a much larger online presence. Joe Rogan & Tucker both have millions more viewers than mainstream news. A third of young Americans get all their news online.
pimpbot
(1,005 posts)I don't think even we had a young white guy at the top of the ticket the incel/bro/women haters would vote for them. There seems to be a serious backlash to the last couple years of empowering non-whites, and I say that as a white guy. I am sick.
Dem4life1234
(1,472 posts)That's the bulk of it.
This country hates women. Cause Obama won. Hillary lost.
Cha
(305,115 posts)Could and MORE!
💖🤞💕🤞She WINS!
MaryMagdaline
(7,858 posts)Hes one of theirs. Simple as that.
beaglelover
(4,022 posts)Perfectly. Its not her fault that this country is too misogynistic to elect a woman as President.
lees1975
(5,873 posts)it's impossible to run against the main stream media when they control the narrative and refuse to tell the truth. We've seen this being set up, even with the polls.
TwilightZone
(28,833 posts)At some point, we have to stop making excuses and just acknowledge that half the country sucks, and the media has very little to do with it.
The media has been hammering on Trump for years. We just pretend not to see it, and that intentional ignorance has gotten very tiresome.
niyad
(119,646 posts)that we all have missed.
uponit7771
(91,665 posts)StarryNite
(10,774 posts)uponit7771
(91,665 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,888 posts)Hitler fed on a fear and hatred of Jews. T***p feeds on the fear and hatred of the people who are not like his supporters.
As a military officer I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. That doesn't change. My focus does, however. For 20 years the enemy was foreign; now it is domestic.
Sad.
TwilightZone
(28,833 posts)I'm having a hard time coming up with other reasons, but I'm tired and not exactly rational at the moment. I think that's what this all boils down to, and it says nothing good about the country.
I don't think she could have run a better campaign, particularly in only 3.5 months.
Blue_Roses
(13,366 posts)phenomenal and it's breaking my heart because she is WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS!!
Silent Type
(6,473 posts)helpisontheway
(5,267 posts)Elessar Zappa
(15,769 posts)In It to Win It
(9,456 posts)I don't know what else she could have done.
Marigold
(164 posts)anamnua
(1,370 posts)America deserves everything thats coming to her the next four years she turns her back on someone of the calibre of Kamala. But who knows? She may get a second shot.
StarryNite
(10,774 posts)AllyCat
(17,044 posts)PikaBlue
(262 posts)We just needed him to win the election and then hand the baton off to Kamala.
spicysista
(1,729 posts)I'm proud to have voted for her. She did everything she was supposed to do.
Ztolkins
(433 posts)young_at_heart
(3,852 posts)that a complete degenerate was the best choice? Did cognitive thinking ever enter into the conversation?
ancianita
(38,371 posts)We can blame women, and cult Republican voters', and corporate media & crypto-tech bros' fault, but somehow, other autocratic forces, not just stupid voters, were greater than we knew.
How this election will be dissected -- even how nothing but the whole truth comes out -- won't be enough to heal the body politic, even if Harris wins.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,570 posts)JI7
(90,429 posts)StarryNite
(10,774 posts)Unfortunately it looks like we are "going back" in spite of all her hard work and the work of so many others.
artemisia1
(776 posts)not fooled
(6,055 posts)Not her fault.
And, of course, the disclaimer that only a certain percentage did it, but the rest of us as well will have to deal with the consequences.
Uneffin'believable.
Ysabel
(2,032 posts)KAMALA IS MY PRESIDENT...
tfg will NEVER be - I will NEVER acknowledge that evil piece of shit...
- and yes, Kamala ran a fantastic campaign!
Polybius
(17,696 posts)It backfired.
Hekate
(94,483 posts)Polybius
(17,696 posts)Gavin 2028.
Hekate
(94,483 posts)Maru Kitteh
(29,047 posts)wolfie001
(3,586 posts)Misogyny and racism are definitely a factor in this whole process. She's a wonderful and brilliant woman and a great candidate!
oldmanlynn
(335 posts)Trump and MAGA has been limited to 45-47 or less. We democrats did not turn out like we expected. Shocking.
B.See
(3,470 posts)She ran an inspiring, heart warming campaign, exemplifying the noblest of character and qualities any candidate has ever shown.
The blame lies with those who embrace and revel in the exact opposite: hate, bigotry, selfishness, malice, and cruelty. And yes, even indifference.
gordianot
(15,508 posts)If she goes manage to win with fewer total national vote just maybe it would motivate people to get rid of the Electoral College. Maybe elimination of Medicare and Social Security will wake us up. Being 72 years old I have enough health problems I will not survive.
Jack Valentino
(1,246 posts)Although I might have "thought I knew better" about some part of the messaging,
she hardly had time to think about it adequately---
but none-the-less had more support from members of the opposing party
than I presume has every happened in the history of presidential elections
and it all should have been "much more than enough" in any sane universe.
electric_blue68
(17,809 posts)JohnSJ
(96,436 posts)ethically or morally.
From my perspective this was the best campaign I have ever been part of.
LizBeth
(10,800 posts)The enthusiasm in the left. Knowing the dire circumstance.
LSparkle
(11,725 posts)I cant help thinking something really bad has happened ...
riversedge
(73,030 posts)DemonGoddess
(5,108 posts)and until she says it's done, it's not done.
tritsofme
(18,344 posts)Bidens exit.
The whole thing is a tragedy.
Hamlette
(15,521 posts)mainer
(12,162 posts)I have never been so sick of my own country.
mucifer
(24,790 posts)to hear a laundry list from him about what she did wrong. He was complaining about her before the election. He did vote for her. I just don't want to hear it anymore about "what she did wrong". He respected my statement.
hydrolastic
(520 posts)Ok you guys quit blaming yourselves. I have described this a few times but it seems to get yawns. Here is the deal. Its about the guns I work in a union shop blue collar mostly men couple of women. 20s to 60s The tables have gun magazines on them. The guys talk rounds and grains,velocity and rust prevention fluids cleaning. They talk new ones, cool ones. Where to go shoot, money on ammo reloading ammo. Prices and where to buy. There are shop gun experts and who has what brand. etc. On and on. The rednecks love them its a whole culture. And get this, even with the women in the shop.
For decades The NRA have taught certain trigger words and policies. Somehow the idea that any legislation is not to be accepted in any way is the normal belief and that s why we see them scoff at any kind of legislation. When Charlton Heston said pry the gun from my cold dead hands it was a call of unity and dedication to the hobby. And yes its just a hobby....Until a whako gets one. (By the way one of my coworkers braggs that he has over 50 guns and he lives with his mom.) So I cringed when Harris in her stump speech said common sense gun laws I knew it was a dividing statement. The same type of person who is into the gun hobby is exactly the working class grievance guy/woman that voted for Trump, Just ask me how I know.
Emile
(29,391 posts)alarimer
(16,554 posts)I think trotting out Liz Cheney and other Republican retreads was a misstep.
Tribetime
(6,288 posts)Skittles
(158,570 posts)but they were never gonna let Hillary be prez, and they DAMN SURE would not let a black female be president