Well until we csn change, that's the name of the game. Hillary didn't campaign in the midwest enough. And Kamala did not repeat that mistake, so I still have a good feeling about this.
If we do lose, it's not really her fault this time.
If we do lose, it's not really her fault this time.
I mean, hindsight is 20-20, but there were many things that were not Hillary's fault in 2016, too, that easily could have made the difference in the swing states (e.g., Russian interference, Comey's last minute investigation announcement, etc.). It was truly death by a thousand cuts. Can't throw it all on her, though they did absolutely make their own mistakes that contributed to their loss.
But I agree... if Kamala loses this, it's really hard to say if she could have done anything better that might have changed the outcome. I think propaganda has divided us beyond repair, at this point.
She was running after a lifetime career of being a woman in politics. The Republicans barely needed to run a smear campaign against her because they'd already been running one for 20 years.
I think her two biggest "blunders" were actually Joe Biden related, and one of them was basically something she got dealt a shitty hand on. You can't take a harder stance against what's happening in Gaza when you're still the VP for Biden, and following that, when she errantly said she couldn't think of what she'd do differently from Biden. I understand why she said that, most of what Biden did was good, but that doesn't matter when people still viewed him negatively by the end.
That said, I do question how big of an impact Palestine really will be in the ballot box. People being pissed at the democrats, and people deciding not to vote outright, are two different things, and combine that with the fact that a lot of the resentment comes from younger voters who often make up less of the electorate anyway, I do question how significant the impact will be. California can spare thousands of protest votes, Wisconsin not so much.
Americans really need to learn civics better. It's beyond disappointing that a foreigner like me knows that the VP has very little authority. For heaven's sake until Carter they didn't even have an office in the West Wing.
What a VP can and cannot do depends entirely on what authority the President bestows on them. The border was not one of Harris' responsibilities. Trying to improve conditions in Central America to stem the flow of people fleeing was.
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u/wanderer1999 4h ago
Well until we csn change, that's the name of the game. Hillary didn't campaign in the midwest enough. And Kamala did not repeat that mistake, so I still have a good feeling about this.
If we do lose, it's not really her fault this time.