Summary

Gender bias played a significant role in Kamala Harrisā€™s defeat, with many votersā€”often womenā€”expressing doubts about whether ā€œAmerica is ready for a female president.ā€

Some said they ā€œcouldnā€™t see her in the chair,ā€ or questioned if a woman could lead, with one even remarking, ā€œyou donā€™t see women building skyscrapers.ā€ Though some voters were open to persuasion, this often became a red line.

Oliver Hall, a Harris campaign volunteer, found that economic concerns, particularly inflation, also drove voters to Donald Trump, despite low unemployment and wage growth touted by Democrats.

Harris was viewed in conflicting ways, seen as both too tough and too lenient on crime, as well as ineffective yet overly tied to Bidenā€™s administration.

Ultimately, Hall believes that Trumpā€™s unique appeal and influence overshadowed Harrisā€™s campaign efforts.

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    12 days ago

    ā€œI can only think of one occasion when someone mentioned stricter taxes on billionaires or any similar policies. The atrocities being committed by Israel in Gaza only came up six times in more than 1,000 calls. The idea that Harris was not leftwing enough seems falseā€

    The problem with this anecdotal evidence is that the campaign almost certainly put this kid to work only calling likely Republican votersā€¦ An absolute waste of time, and of course these are the things those shit brains would be sayingā€¦ If he had been put to work calling people who had voted for Biden but were less likely to show up this time he would have gotten a lot more genocide, sheā€™s not progressive enough, and tax the rich messages

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      12 days ago

      Exactly. On the fuckin head.

      Just goes to show how deeply-run this ā€œfocus on courting the fascistsā€ was in the campaign.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      On okā€¦ So thatā€™s anecdotal evidence, but not your terminally online ass seeing everyone on Lemmy upset with it and assuming that was any indication of real world demographics?

      Got it.

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        Nah, weā€™ll have to wait for someone to poll the people who showed up last time but sat it out this time to know for real why they did it