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Why Pa. voters, labor leaders, and academics think Democrats lost, and how they think they can win next time
The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 11/27/24 | Layla A. Jones, Julia Terruso, Katie Bernard, and Aliya Schneider

Posted on 11/27/2024 9:19:21 AM PST by DallasBiff

Lonnie Golden, a professor of economics at Penn State, called it the “million dollar question.”

How did the Democrats lose the presidency, the House, and the Senate in a race where pollsters had Vice President Kamala Harris neck-and-neck, and at some points leading, President-elect Donald Trump? And what can the party do better next time to win back core parts of their base — working class voters, union laborers, and voters of color?

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; paping; trump
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Uh Lonnie, as you live in your radical liberal ivory tower and believed the phony media polls, real Americans said something different.
1 posted on 11/27/2024 9:19:21 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Natural gas produced by fracking funds public services in Pennsylvania.


2 posted on 11/27/2024 9:21:55 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: DallasBiff
"And what can the party do better next time to win back core parts of their base — working class voters, union laborers, and voters of color?"

Ignore advice from idiots like you? Go buy an Electric Jaguar with your academia money laundering machine proceeds, straight out of the wallets of your deplorable public that stinks of Walmart.

3 posted on 11/27/2024 9:23:53 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: DallasBiff

A common observation but desrving repetition: no one in the media ever asks why Republicans lose, and what that party would need to do to begin winning. The reason, BTW, is that when the GOP leaves the principles of MAGA it loses the “normal center,” and all it needs to do to get that center back is to return to MAGA. 2024 proves this, but in those places where we lost, the media will never ask the question of the GOP that it is asking of the Democrats here.


4 posted on 11/27/2024 9:25:43 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: blackdog

The Democrats need to keep focusing on their critical priorities—like getting tampons required in high school boys rooms across the nation.

Lol.


5 posted on 11/27/2024 9:25:43 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: DallasBiff

“million dollar question.”

Pennsylvania natural gas - the multi-billion dollar answer


6 posted on 11/27/2024 9:26:35 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: DallasBiff

Pennsylvania districts 7,8, and 10 were won by about 4, 5, and 6k votes each. No reason we can’t show up again. 2 were pickups.

Nothing else matters there as Shapiro will get reelected-incumbency.


7 posted on 11/27/2024 9:26:50 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: blackdog

Hahaha…”electric jaguar”

Perfect framing of that…:)


8 posted on 11/27/2024 9:27:14 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: DallasBiff
......"How did the Democrats lose the presidency"......


9 posted on 11/27/2024 9:27:18 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: DallasBiff
Why Pa. voters, labor leaders, and academics think Democrats lost?

They need an outsider - someone like Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter. They're from the South.

10 posted on 11/27/2024 9:28:51 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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union leaders, with their yachts, suuppersizzze sallaries, and forever connections to the mob, just don’t care.

academia, with all their supposed wisdom, haven’t been real world sincce the day they were awarded tenure.

the rest of them ......


11 posted on 11/27/2024 9:31:07 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Terry L Smith

They lost this time because they cheated last time


12 posted on 11/27/2024 9:32:06 AM PST by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: chajin

A common observation but deserving repetition: no one in the media ever asks why Republicans lose...


As I’m sure you are aware, it is because to the media, democrats are ‘US’ and Republicans are ‘THEM’.


13 posted on 11/27/2024 9:32:15 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: DallasBiff

Simple. Follow the POF plan to win back these constituencies:

1. working class voters — more anti-energy policies, more woke crap, more outsourcing of jobs to low-cost countries, and definitely more taxpayer funded tranny surgeries
2. union laborers — more anti-energy policies, anti-business policies, more low-cost immigrant labor to take low-end jobs, more EV mandates
3. voters of color — keep speaking down to them, keep them on the plantation, keep brining out Obama to excite them


14 posted on 11/27/2024 9:33:18 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Republicans are the party that says ‘Government doesn’t work.’ Then they get elected and prove it.)
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To: DallasBiff

Why read this tripe? They don’t get it. Never will. Maybe more emphasis on trannies? 😁 Bigger Welcome signs for illegals? 🤣 Bring back mothball Hillary? 😂 Big Mike?😄


15 posted on 11/27/2024 9:34:24 AM PST by albie (U)
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To: caww

Next question please. cack cack cackle.


16 posted on 11/27/2024 9:34:26 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

That’s correct.


17 posted on 11/27/2024 9:36:51 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DallasBiff

This is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A lot of us think it is the greatest nation on the planet. Running a Marxist refugee from Jamaica to run the country was kind of a real dumbass idea. Doing drugs all day do have its consequences.


18 posted on 11/27/2024 9:38:56 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (My least favorite plantation team sports are the NBA and the NFL.)
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To: DallasBiff

Simple. You had a crappy candidate, you were defending a crappy economy brought on by the crappy Progressive wing of your party and you would never admit that your open borders (future Democratic Party voters) was a bad idea. Oh, and you were competing with a generational nationalist candidate in PDJT!


19 posted on 11/27/2024 9:41:37 AM PST by Rowdyone (Vigilence)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yep, Dems will double down on their woke, socialist policies, believing if Dems explain the policies more clearly, working class voters will buy into them.


20 posted on 11/27/2024 9:42:19 AM PST by Roadrunner383
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