Summary
Gender bias played a significant role in Kamala Harrisās defeat, with many votersāoften womenāexpressing doubts about whether āAmerica is ready for a female president.ā
Some said they ācouldnāt see her in the chair,ā or questioned if a woman could lead, with one even remarking, āyou donāt see women building skyscrapers.ā Though some voters were open to persuasion, this often became a red line.
Oliver Hall, a Harris campaign volunteer, found that economic concerns, particularly inflation, also drove voters to Donald Trump, despite low unemployment and wage growth touted by Democrats.
Harris was viewed in conflicting ways, seen as both too tough and too lenient on crime, as well as ineffective yet overly tied to Bidenās administration.
Ultimately, Hall believes that Trumpās unique appeal and influence overshadowed Harrisās campaign efforts.
āI can only think of one occasion when someone mentioned stricter taxes on billionaires or any similar policies. The atrocities being committed by Israel in Gaza only came up six times in more than 1,000 calls. The idea that Harris was not leftwing enough seems falseā
The problem with this anecdotal evidence is that the campaign almost certainly put this kid to work only calling likely Republican votersā¦ An absolute waste of time, and of course these are the things those shit brains would be sayingā¦ If he had been put to work calling people who had voted for Biden but were less likely to show up this time he would have gotten a lot more genocide, sheās not progressive enough, and tax the rich messages
Exactly. On the fuckin head.
Just goes to show how deeply-run this āfocus on courting the fascistsā was in the campaign.
On okā¦ So thatās anecdotal evidence, but not your terminally online ass seeing everyone on Lemmy upset with it and assuming that was any indication of real world demographics?
Got it.
Nah, weāll have to wait for someone to poll the people who showed up last time but sat it out this time to know for real why they did it