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Running Kamala Harris may actually be a political masterstroke for the Democrats
The Guardian ^ | July 23, 2024 | Steve Phillips

Posted on 07/23/2024 8:15:53 AM PDT by chickenlips

Kamala Harris will likely be the next president of the United States – and that’s overall good news if you care about democracy, justice and equality. Joe Biden’s decision on Sunday to bow out of the presidential race clears the path for the country to elect its first woman and first woman of color as president.

Even though the electoral fundamentals for this year’s election have always favored the Democrats – despite what numerous misleading polls have been showing (and with most of the news media reacting purely off those polls) – Harris’s selection will largely shore up the weaknesses that were dragging down Biden’s poll numbers.

All of the drama and dissatisfaction over Biden’s June debate performance completely obscured the underlying factors that made it more likely than not that the Democrats, even with Biden as nominee, were in a strong position to win in November. Here are the facts.

First, most people in this country typically choose the Democratic nominee for president over the Republican nominee time and time again. With the sole exception of 2004, in every presidential election since 1992, the Democratic nominee has won the popular vote (Biden bested Donald Trump by 7m votes in 2020).

Those trends have only continued during the four years since the 2020 election. Since 2020, 16 million young people have become eligible to vote, and 12 million people, most of them older, have died. Biden beat Trump by 30 points among young people, according to the exit polls, and he lost among the oldest voters (52% for Trump, 47% for Biden). So the fundamental composition of our nation’s electorate is more progressive, more diverse and more favorable to Democrats right now than it was in 2020.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; commiepaper; democrat; election; hotelmaid; kamala; nutter; nuttermedia; stevephillips; thenuttermedia
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Phillips must be auditioning for a job at the NYT or else he got some bad mushrooms.
1 posted on 07/23/2024 8:15:53 AM PDT by chickenlips
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What is this drivel?


2 posted on 07/23/2024 8:16:36 AM PDT by vivenne
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To: vivenne

What is this drivel?


Drivel. Leftist media drivel.


3 posted on 07/23/2024 8:17:20 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters was K as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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That’s interesting especially in a newspaper from a country that in no way would stand for a fraction of the scandal Harris has in her past.


4 posted on 07/23/2024 8:17:38 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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The Guardian is a global joke. It is filled with delusional leftist children.


5 posted on 07/23/2024 8:18:02 AM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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The polls were all fake but Harris will sure up the poll numbers snd the weakness they revealed. Great analysis.


6 posted on 07/23/2024 8:19:23 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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About author: Steve Phillips is the founder of Democracy in Color and author of Brown is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority and How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good
7 posted on 07/23/2024 8:19:31 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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I read this crap, not a single mention of the numerous failed policies of Biden/Harris, inflation, border failures etc.


8 posted on 07/23/2024 8:19:53 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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and that’s overall good news if you care about democracy, justice and equality.

Kamala spearheaded the fund to bail out BLM/Antifa rioters and looters. Never ever forget that.

9 posted on 07/23/2024 8:19:56 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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lol. Well now I’ve read the title i don’t need to read the book


10 posted on 07/23/2024 8:20:46 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: chickenlips

Watching the media these past two days is like watching a fish flop around on dry land.


11 posted on 07/23/2024 8:21:12 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump Triumphant !)
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Oh look. A Leftist rag thinks the Left is making brilliant moves.


12 posted on 07/23/2024 8:22:27 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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Stevie sounds like he’s got a woodie going for Viagra Harris.


13 posted on 07/23/2024 8:22:50 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hi! I'm Fling. My pronouns are Dem, Deez and Doze. )
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It clears the pathway for Kamala to be defeated in a landslide. The exposure of her in a presidential campaign, coupled with her lack of accomplishments and performance as VP will remove her from future political advancement.


14 posted on 07/23/2024 8:22:57 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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The woman nobody wanted to be a candidate, that everyone hated is now the most smartest, bestest candidate in the whole world.

It’s yet another continuation of the Obama Bizarro world.


15 posted on 07/23/2024 8:23:00 AM PDT by Skywise
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This analysis completely ignores the reality that Democrats have created an environment of high inflation, rampant crime, and insane leftist policies like planning on taking away our gas engine cars, letting our children mutilate their bodies and a open border that is making problems like crime, unemployment and fentanyl a lot worse.

People with half a brain, which excludes most Democrats, know that progressive politics are ruining countries around the world.

16 posted on 07/23/2024 8:23:05 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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The Guardian. Lol. MI6 propaganda rag.


17 posted on 07/23/2024 8:23:36 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: rottweiller_inc

Not exactly a master stroke, since they were forced into dumping Biden and had to choose her for financial and political (race) reasons


18 posted on 07/23/2024 8:24:35 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: vivenne

Word Salad for Word Salad


19 posted on 07/23/2024 8:25:08 AM PDT by butlerweave
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“Kamala Harris will likely be the next president of the United States – and that’s overall good news if you care about democracy, justice and equality.”

It should hurt to be so stupid.


20 posted on 07/23/2024 8:26:06 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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