I see so many posts calling the voters who didn't support Harris "stupid"

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48. Probably not in this election. I think the result was baked in early on.

Biden's favorability tanked in 2021 and never really recovered. Harris was saddled by her association with the Biden administration and by other factors, such as misogyny and racism among a segment of the voters. But its not as if every woman that ran or every person of color that ran lost -- some even won in places where Harris lost.

As I noted above, Biden received 81+ million votes. Without doubt that included a number of voters that some people think we should simply give up on because they didn't support Harris. Obama won re-election, but he got fewer votes in 2012 than in 2008 and Clinton got fewer votes in 2016 than Obama and then Biden got a lot more votes than either Obama or Clinton. There is the "base" that reliably votes for one party no matter what. And then there are a bunch of voters -- independents or voters who nominally register with one party but don't vote with the party all the time -- sometimes they vote third party, sometimes they vote republican, sometimes they just don't vote at all.

There is an assumption that everyone that voted against Harris is evil or stupid. A large number are evil, no doubt. But a large number simply are low information voters who felt that things hadn't gone that swimmingly for them the past four years and voted for change. Many of these voters supported Biden in 2020 for the same reason -- they didn't like how things had gone the previous four years and decided to vote for change. Voters can be fickle and we need to recognize that fickleness and find a way to turn it back to our advantage not simply give up and hide under a rock thinking its going to magically get better. Here on DU, we're plugged in a 1000 percent more than the average voter. 150 million people voted. How many do you think regularly watch television news? Read newspapers? Get information from unbiased social media sources? There is large segment of voters that, for any number of reasons, are more focused on their daily lives than on politics. Wish it wasn't true but it is.

If we give up on all of them, what is the strategy going forward to win an election. That's the question I think needs to be addressed.