It's glorious to watch.
Posted on 11/07/2024 7:14:25 AM PST by lasereye
When exit polls began to be released on Tuesday night, it appeared to contain a nugget that augured well for Kamala Harris. In the end, it didn't.
Americans were asked who they trusted more to handle the economy. It was a win for Donald Trump — 51% picked him to 47% for Harris — but it was a much more narrow victory than would have been imaginable earlier this year when the former president was trouncing President Joe Biden regularly on the issue.
It seemed to be a validation of a strategy for Harris in the final few days of the campaign to focus on economic issues — which are called the top issue for voters so much it can feel like a cliche — and tout her plans to bring down the prices of things like groceries and housing.
But those results clearly augured nothing of the sort. Trump, in the hours that followed, romped to a decisive victory that saw him win crucial battlegrounds as well as be on track to win the popular vote for the first time in his three runs for office.
There are many answers to what caused Trump's win and Harris's loss but one clear factor appears to be a recent decline in Americans (especially Democrats this year at least) who say the economy is their top issue.
In 2012, the exit polls found a whopping 60% of all voters picked the economy as their top issue. This year, the result was barely half that with 31%.
In addition to this overall decline in voter focus on the economy, this year's batch of exit poll data found that, for the first time in years, the economy did not rank as the top election day issue. Voters narrowly ranked democracy as their top issue.
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From a conservative perspective democracy is in danger, because the FBI etc. are politicized, plus the Democrats are always seeking to get around the Constitution. But the people citing it as their number one issue were anti-Trump in this election. Conservatives would have said either the economy, crime or the border are number one for the most part.
Harris didnt do shit. she does not know how to spell economy much less understand it.
” It seemed to be a validation of a strategy for Harris in the final few days”
But she lost!
Absolute BS!
She made gains? Delusional.
Agree totally
Who did this exit poll ? Let me guess. Madame Selzer.
It’s remarkable to me that most of the Dems’ media mouthpieces are simply chalking up this election result to racism and sexism... despite Trump overperforming with non-white voters.
Absurd chaos at the southern border and bacon that’s $12 a pound at the local supermarket? No, that can’t possibly matter. It’s racism and misogyny!
ROTFL! Yeah. Okay. Other concerns like 20 million foreigners living off the backs of U.S. taxpayers for THEIR significant economic gains.
“SHE” didn’t do anything period.
It's glorious to watch.
Yahoo = The People’s Daily...in English.
No, in her final few days, she focused on abortion and other issues to drive up the liberal suburban woman vote. That actually made sense.
To the extent she was throwing her billion dollars around to also try to get an economic message out, it lacked credibility. I saw the ads - Trump is going to increase your taxes while Harris will give you a tax cut. Zero credibility.
47%. Morons all. Next they will say that men can become women. Oh wait. They do.....
I was happy to see the GOP focus on immigration, crime, inflation/economy and trans/drag queen story hours. Too many negatives for possibly any Democrat to deal with.
The left whines about ‘democracy’, but doesn’t accept the election results. 🤷♂️🤣😂
I voted for Trump and worried about our system of government too. The massive influx of illegals makes we think our system of government is in grave danger. Once we lose it, it won’t come back without a terrible war, literal or not.
She didn’t have any strategy other than Trump Nazi.
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