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Harris Tried to Win Over Republicans. Democratic Support Collapsed Instead.
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she tried to win over moderates, not republicans.
I'd say it worked judging by the 70 million votes or so she got.
The real problem seems to be dem voter turnout instead, for whatever collection of reasons that is. I would argue it's mostly voters being stupid, but that's just me lol.
The election results say otherwise.
losing sure, but biden had historically high voter turnout, probably as a result of the mail in voting over covid.
This turn out is pretty high as well we're looking at about 71 million votes right now. For an "unpopular candidate" this is pretty clearly, good turnout.
Today we learned, there are no moderates
there are moderates, politically, the problem is that the political environment is so heavily galvanized they don't really show up clearly.
Most conservative moderates are either going to vote trump (in which case they aren't that much of a moderate) or they're not, and they're going to vote for dems, (which is more moderate)
The problem at hand is that moderates just don't get any political attention, even though they're like 30-40% of the voter base, if not more.