Posted on 11/15/2024 9:55:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
As is inevitable in any losing presidential effort, a lot of the fingers being pointed at Democratic culprits are aimed at the Harris-Walz campaign, with a big negative assist from the former Biden-Harris campaign that was terminated in July. Some critics think Kamala Harris failed sufficiently to “pivot to the center” when the Trump campaign was pounding her as “radical communist”; others believe she erred by failing to go hard-core lefty populist. Still others seem to be certain she should have junked her billion-dollar ad blitz and instead appeared on a few dozen podcasts.
The reality is that while the Harris-Walz campaign was national in scope, its efforts (as were those of the Trump-Vance campaign) were concentrated to an extraordinary degree on the seven universally recognized battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin that decided the election. So if her campaign had any positive net impact, you should be able to see it there. And as the Washington Post’s Philip Bump calculated a couple of days after Trump was declared the winner, you actually can see it if you compare these states to the country as a whole:
The Post’s model estimates that, when all of the votes are counted, only one state, Colorado, will have seen its vote margin shift to the left. Every other state and D.C. will have shifted to the right.The last time an election saw that uniform a shift was in 1992, when all but one state shifted to the left as Bill Clinton was elected president…..
On average, states are likely to end up having shifted about 4.6 points to the right since 2020….
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election
TRUMP WON 312 Electoral Votes While Kamala had 226
States carried by Trump 31 + ME-02 States carried by Kamala 19 + DC + NE-02
Popular vote:
Trump: 76,071,708 (50.2%) Kamala: 73,137,829 (48.2%)
Of course she did. She had that 50% of baby killers and young baby killer wannabes voting for her. The voters who don’t GAS about America and Americans.
No, that’s not true.
The only thing Harris had going for her was fake votes.
But like in 2016, the deciding factor is we knew how to cancel enough fake votes in the right places.
I fully expected this.
There are two ways a party can go after losing a campaign. One is introspection. An assessment of what went wrong and a plan for adjustment. Of course, each faction of a party seeks to blame the other so as to steer the boat.
The other is to double down. In order to do that, you have to excuse the loss as an anomaly or re-cast it is “not really that bad.”
The Dems are opting for the double down. Articles like this are their way of convincing themselves that they didn’t lose.
Kamala’s loss is all ‘Joe’s fault mantra’. From the last sentence in this whine-—
“”””But nobody should blame her for failing to overcome the dead weight of an administration too many voters considered a disappointment if not a failure””””
Uhm, Harris was hard-core elitist. Trump was already the hard-core populist.
Would have loved to have Virginia. Stupid Fairfax and Louden counties!!!!
Another way of putting it is almost half of our country is made up of communists and socialists.
Mr Kilgore,
You don’t know what I think. So shut your stupid mouth.
I keep seeing districts that voted for Trump but kept their congressman. Golden in Main. Sandler in Va(quit-going for gov.)
If it’s a 5k shortfall we’re the ones coming up short.
Deep blue districts. All the money should be spent in winnable districts. Token opposition-that’s it.
Trump lost none of the states he won in 2020. Those states were his base from which to expand this year. When asked during the campaign how he was doing Trump replied We’re doing great. We’re leading in all the battleground states. That turned out to be exactly how the election unfolded.
76.1 million to 73.1 million is very scary. The nation is effectively split 50/50 between pro-freedom and pro-communism.
Texas needs to excise our cancerous lib cities. Otherwise, what a glorious site the Texas map is, to see.
Oklahoma is beautiful.
“The nation is effectively split 50/50 between pro-freedom and pro-communism.”
This only proves how many stupid uneducated people there are in the US. And how many there are voting for a handout.
And nuclear weapons.
One thing every single leftist mass media articles fails to discuss about Harris—she was incoherent.
They refuse to admit it—right in front of their faces.
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