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In reply to the discussion: Want A Reason Why Kamala Lost That Makes Sense [View all]ancianita
(39,096 posts)It was because of the oligarch funded lying ad campaign about her "lies" and "flip flops" that convinced them to not support her. We should have watched them. They were scary lies. In the future, DU owner/admins should not shrink from allowing our opponents' campaign ads that reveal what they're telling the electorate across the right wing media spectrum. It's important to know what their messaging is. We missed that to our peril. We should change our attitude about seeing the opposition's messaging and stop silo perspective we're shown.
The other major thing that sunk Harris was the racist/misogynist-based distrust across every voter demographic from white women to black men to latinos to the working class voter.
They just can't trust a woman as president, even less as commander-in-chief. Can we overcome that? Doubtful. But we can find their right wing markets and do ad buy there in the future. We missed that to our peril.
Your reason is okay. But. From the outside-msm news sites I've read, there are more fact based the basic reasons I keep reading that we are ignoring, or only mention.
We need to pay attention to these other journalists' reports of on-the-ground truths, not just the ones we want to believe. Or we'll shoot ourselves in the foot again.
The fact that we have not had a real post mortem from our favorite strategists is telling -- it says a lot about how hard a time they're having about figuring out the causes of this election loss.