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Originally Posted by jfman
Where did you see the data out of interest?
Only asking as it'd almost certainly be true. Harris lost votes (vs Biden 2020) everywhere. Every state, every congressional district and almost every county.
Across every demographic she lost voter share. Age. Sex. Race. Income. You name a metric and Harris moved the dial backwards. This isn't a quirk of the electoral system. Nor is it that Trump's campaign was more effective at dragging out a 'certain type' of voter than Harris. It was almost entirely uniform. That's a bad candidate, or a bad message.
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There’s a lot of noise and it’s hard to tell from this distance, but I get the impression that the Dems have gone far more to the left on social issues than is generally appreciated from this side of the Atlantic. Gender identity politics seems to have hurt her (‘women won’t vote for a woman who can’t say what a woman is’ is a phrase I’ve seen more than once), the widespread, campus-occupying, Jew baiting over the summer also seems to have become attached to her despite complaints from that lobby that she wasn’t doing enough on the issue. And the southern border issue is also hanging round her neck. But most of all, the GOP campaign successfully tied her to Biden and his legacy is inevitably filtered through his rapid decline over the last 6 months in particular. She was (almost) literally shackled to a corpse.