NEW YORK (AP) — Kamala Harris “wrote off rural America” during the 2024 presidential campaign and failed to attack Donald Trump with sufficient “negative firepower,” according to a long-awaited post-election autopsy released on Thursday by the Democratic National Committee.
The committee’s chair, Ken Martin, shared the 192-page report only after facing intense internal pressure from frustrated Democratic operatives concerned with his leadership. Martin had originally promised to release the autopsy, only to keep it under wraps for months because he was concerned it would be a distraction ahead of the midterms as Democrats mobilize to take back control of Congress.
My vote is earned, Democrats couldn’t be bothered and Top Cop asserted she would not be changing Biden’s course if she won. The blame is ALL on the Democrats.
One of the candidates on the ballot will be sworn into office whether you vote or not. So regardless if you’re voting for someone or against someone, it’s foolish to silence your only voice in the selection process.
Who says I didn’t vote? I have and will continue to vote Green as both GOP and Dems had loudly committed to continuing the genocide. Which was absolutely a dealbreaker for many, many voters.
Pissing away your vote clearly improved the situation in Gaza.
Voting 3rd party at the state and federal level in a district without some form of RCV or an encumbent 3rd party representative is pretty much a counter-productive to giving greater political power to your preferred end of the political spectrum. It’s just lowering the number of votes the opposing end of the spectrum needs to win because of our first-past-the-post plurality winner-takes-all system. Yes, I know it’s a corrupt system working as designed by those in power. Quoting myself from another thread where included sources for all this:
For county and below, have at it. If your state/federal rep is already 3rd party or independent and not getting trounced in public approval, keep them. If your district has RCV, definitely support 3rd party. but in the other 99.5% of districts, voting Green at state and federal level is just making easier for a Republican to win.
Cry harder or push your shit ass party to earn some fucking votes because none of what you wrote means a damned thing.
Voting in the primary is exactly how we can most effectively do that.
You can choose to ignore observable facts all you want, but that won’t change the reality of them.
The primaries they simply decided not to run. You are a simp for an intentionally broken system.
Ah, so full circle ignoring that there were, in fact, primaries held (albeit with two states not including the presidential race on their primary ballots, which as I already said, fuck those guys). I do wish there had been serious challengers to vote for in that race.
With the shamefully antiquated Electoral College still in place, that’s an interesting push. Of course, that’s assuming there is an election. 😶🌫️
At present I believe the only way to get past the EC is with National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. And the only way to get that is to elect state legislators who will support adopting in. The only way to get them on the general election ballot to be elected is to vote for them in the primary. And since our current reality is that over 99% of state and federal legislators are Democratic or Republican, I believe we can only get those people who support electoral reform elected by nominating them in either the Democratic or Republican primary. It’s an actionable thing that we can all do today that doesn’t require any systemic reform to have already taken place and it’s backed by observable reality. Do you have an alternate suggestion?
I genuinely wish I did, but I’m equipped with a turd paddle, same as my fellow citizens. ✊🏼
I’m gonna have to remember ‘turd paddle’
“Up shit creek” and all that.
Isn’t that how the ol’ idiom goes, or does it differ regionally?
Regardless, it’s a handy one to have in the archive. 🤓
oh I’ve always heard it “up shit creek without an oar.” When you said paddle I was thinking like table tennis. 😅
Ha! I like that spin on the adage! You’re at one end of the table, looking down the barrel at the opponent’s wind-up and realize you’re about to attempt to return with that.