Absolutely. The relentless and well-funded disinformation campaign from reactionaries this year was insurmountable.
I watched ads in my own state blaming Harris for people's income taxes being too high. The attention and recall of many voters is so poor that they didn't remember that the last few tax bracket gifts to the rich were set by Republicans. Those include 2 tax cuts from Bush 43 and another massive one by Trump on 2017.
Democrats need an effective counterweight to right-wing disinformation campaigns but haven't found an answer. The wipeout from this election, combined with all branches commandeered by Republicans may mean they never get the chance to do so again.
One more time. But for Russian interference, we wudda won.
As to the veteran vote....I don't think that's true. We flipped tens of thousands of former Trump supporters nationally....mostly Yankees.
We did not move visceral voters ... regardless how they registered.
Absolutely. The relentless and well-funded disinformation campaign from reactionaries this year was insurmountable.
I watched ads in my own state blaming Harris for people's income taxes being too high. The attention and recall of many voters is so poor that they didn't remember that the last few tax bracket gifts to the rich were set by Republicans. Those include 2 tax cuts from Bush 43 and another massive one by Trump on 2017.
Democrats need an effective counterweight to right-wing disinformation campaigns but haven't found an answer. The wipeout from this election, combined with all branches commandeered by Republicans may mean they never get the chance to do so again.