FiveThirtyEight's polling aggregate showed the vice president with a 3.4-point lead on Monday.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Unfortunately she’s started talking policy…

    Which means going back on what little people liked about her.

    I called it a week or so ago. While I look for policy in a candidate, this election all Harris had to do was keep quiet and just be “not trump”.

    But she’s coming out against a bunch of popular stances with Dem voters, and pushing for stuff republicans want like a border wall. Or saying she’s no longer against fracking…

    What Dem voters dont want M4A, want a border wall, and want fracking to continue?

    A shit ton of wealthy donors want those things, but she’s sabotaging her own chances to win the election with this shit.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
      3·
      2 months ago

      It’s a difficult needle to thread. Not specifying anything does let republicans call her out for being vague and “not having policies”, but it is true that that approach might have been better in the end regardless. Just let people see what they want to see in her.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        2 months ago

        Not specifying anything does let republicans call her out for being vague and “not having policies”,

        And instead of that she got baited into telling Dem voters that everything she used to agree with us on, she now agrees with Republicans…

        It’s a bad campaign choice.

        Anytime we’re making decisions based on republican complaints it’s a bad campaign choice.

        Republicans bitched and moaned about work from home, so Biden ordered all federal agencies to return to office at least part time, and as soon as he did republicans moved to a new thing and just dropped it

        All it did was piss off federal employees and make them like Biden less. And cause experienced workers to leave.

        Exactly what republicans wanted.

        Republicans demand Dems do things Dem voters don’t want. And the Dems choice is to either ignore them, or piss of their own voters for no fucking reason.

        Kamala apparently hasn’t learned that lesson.

        • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
          41·
          2 months ago

          The tucking to the right instinct comes from an almost century long fear campaign tarnishing everything “progressive” and left-leaning. I’ve said it before that I think the general mindset of America is changing, and slowly becoming more progressive (old people do keep dying and Gen Z are voting now). But it’s still a risk to lean left instead, because you know you’ll lose voters doing so but you don’t know how many you’ll gain doing so. My instinct is that this is the first election where leaning into the progressive left is probably worth it, but I’m no political scientist or campaign advisor. So what do I know besides vibes.

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            2 months ago

            Except that fear is unfounded…

            Which should have been obvious immediately after Obama ran a progressive campaign and got a landslide victory despite an active campaign firm “moderate” Dems to get Dem voters to vote for the Republican candidate.