However, *rump didn't pull off enough votes from Democrats to have been able to win if the party just showed up. What I'm trying to figure out is why Democrats stayed home. They came out for Obama, who ran a similar campaign to Harris, (sans the bodily autonomy), and there wasn't as much on the line, other than another 4 years of globalist policies.
The GOP win this election could easily have gone the other way if Democrats and lean Democratic indies actually made the effort to vote.
I accept that the poor Democratic showing in 2010 caused the gerrymandering that kettled Democrats into easily managed districts. But the only things I could possibly deduce to as to the poor showing of Democratic voters in battleground states are the following points:
1. Passive voter suppression - "Red" states kettling majority blue districts, insufficient voting options as compared to red districts. I think that's probably the primary reason not enough Democrats showed.
2. Sparkle Pony politics. The link there is voters who felt there was not enough pandering to "working class", instead, the focus was on other people's social rights issues - or vice versa. I'm pretty sure that came from Troll farm influence, but it could still peel off a thousand or so votes in a critical blue wall district in a purple state, causing a cumulative loss of votes greater than can be overcome.
On edit here - Harris ran on kitchen table issues more than "social issues", but the GOP and Media linked her to Trans and social issues - no matter what she said, the Media was running against her, rather than against him.
3. Misogyny when it comes to the idea of a female Commander in Chief. We saw this with Hillary Clinton. Yes, they'd be happy enough with a female VP or Senator, but full time, in charge of everything? Some voters, male, female, or other, can't really handle the thought. Females = Mom. Dad's supposed to be the protector of the family. Unfortunately, that's a personal voter problem, you aren't going to overcome that.
4. Post COVID Incumbent losses. Ya, *rump was "in charge" at the COVID outbreak, but Biden and the Democrats were also. And even though the US was guided into an enviable soft landing, between rebuilding costs, food deserts and health care flight from low income areas, Greedflation and the Media propaganda, the lower income earners just weren't seeing it soon enough to change their minds and come out to vote.
Another two years of Bidenomics, they probably would be seeing returns on the investment, but we were still in a COVID tunnel, and the light at the end wasn't visible yet, to use a metaphor.
But the truth is, Democrats didn't show this election. For whatever reason Vibes? - whatever.
Next election, or the mid-terms, they probably will. Each election is different.
Heck, mid-terms, there should be sufficient GOP dissatisfaction over their Face-eating Sparkle Leopards we will end up with the House and Senate without trying to hard. Depends on what happens in Russia and whether or not US Media owners decide too much Chaos from *rump/Vance isn't helping their bottom line as much as they thought. Tech and Finance Bros fighting Evangelicals for a Randriod paradise.
Honestly, I don't really care about the Indy voters or the "undecideds"; most of them have already decided what party they're going to vote for before primaries were over.
Haele
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