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This is voting for your own best interests as a part of a country.
What kind of fool believes that is supposed to require outreach? Would you rather visit an inept doctor because they make you feel more like a big boy by courting your feelings?
If voters must have outreach to not show up, that means they see no difference in their own life between the candidates.
I don't know what to tell you man, you need to get people excited to go vote for you, otherwise they don't show up. It's election 101. Harris didn't do that for her base, so she fucking lost. You can bitch about voters all you want, but it's not gonna change reality, so maybe that time would be better spent figuring out why they didn't show up. Again, I'd start with the fact that she ignored her base for the fucking Cheneys.
I understand where you're coming from but I think there is an atmosphere tinging the conversation (and there are a lot of threads happening so maybe I'm the one doing that, not trying to be perfect here)
I'm not bitching about voters. I'm saying people are blaming Democrats, or Harris, or whoever they want to, but one side showed up with more people. I see you are continuing that as well by saying she ignored her own base.
More people showed up for what Trump was selling. Harris was certainly not ignoring her base in favor of the Cheneys but I think you mean they relatively to your expectations (?).
If she were leaning more right, then I guess that was the correct choice because that's who showed up to vote.
I think she did ignore her base, mainly the working class. It's not just that she campaigned with Cheney and stuck to hard-right positions on Gaza and the border, but her economic message was entirely about opportunity for the middle-class class. Her working-class message had a few good features, like grocery price controls, but they were small measures shunted to the sidelines. It wasn't a broad economic message like BBB.
The campaign was predicated on a series of incorrect assumptions on who would vote for her. Women? They'll vote for me because of abortion. Muslims? They'll vote for me because Trump is worse. Working class? They always go Democrat, I don't need a strong economic message. PoC? C'mon, like they'll flip for Trump. Wow, we've got so many demographics on lockdown, we should try and flip some conservatives! It's not like my constituents will be so unenthused by my campaign that they won't bother to come out.