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DemocratSinceBirth

(100,571 posts)
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 11:12 AM Nov 2024

I'm still seeing explanations of why we lost and how we need to change our ways.

If Joe Biden had a 50% approval rating in exit polls and not a 39% approval rating he could have been a classmate of Methusaleh and won. That's an empirical observation and not a normative one. In my opinion he did a better job than what he got credit for.

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I'm still seeing explanations of why we lost and how we need to change our ways. (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2024 OP
In my current sense of things.... FarPoint Nov 2024 #1
People represent themselves as their best people in exist polls underpants Nov 2024 #2
Here's the only explanation you need: Fiendish Thingy Nov 2024 #3
Thanks for posting that. DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2024 #4

FarPoint

(13,829 posts)
1. In my current sense of things....
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 11:17 AM
Nov 2024

I don't think this are a real done deal yet..... Just a hunch.... it's okay to have hope in the Universe.

underpants

(188,698 posts)
2. People represent themselves as their best people in exist polls
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 11:18 AM
Nov 2024

Given a list of their voting priorities, options like morals and character usually top the list. Asked their opinion of someone and they don’t want to think of themselves as being negative.

DemocratSinceBirth

(100,571 posts)
4. Thanks for posting that.
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 12:05 PM
Nov 2024

"We can't talk to working people." "We're too woke." "We're neo-liberal corporate shills." (Biden was the most pro blue collar worker Democratic president since FDR). We lost because the incumbent president had a 39% approval rating.

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