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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 71 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (11 children)

Called it, using Allan Lichtman's own 13 keys principle (in ways that he himself overlooked), and on a heavily downvoted comment.

Where I was wrong was with how narrow the result would he. It wasn't even Gore v Bush levels of close unlike when Lichtman's 13 keys prediction previously failed. Kamala lost the popular vote to a convicted felon that tried to usurp democracy and is the reason why abortion is no longer a federal right. The Republicans spent the last few weeks crapping on Haitians and Puerto Ricans, yet won some districts with large Latino populations.

This is what happens when Democrats ignore their voter base and choose a cabal of unpopular and uncharismatic candidates to carry the torch. The bar is now so low that we need James Cameron to venture out into the Mariana Trench and lift it back up again...

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 61 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (7 children)

Harris was popular when she first announced. She then proceeded to run to the cold dead embrace of the Biden campaign.

Progressive policy is more popular than any candidate, if they focused on rent control, free healthcare, free childcare, free college and other immediate, material improvements to people's conditions, they'd have won in a landslide. Instead they abandoned the rest of the country to pursue the <10% of republicans who weren't in the bag for Trump.

[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 50 points 21 hours ago (14 children)

Harris was popular when she first announced.

I don't think she was popular when first announced, rather the fact that not-Biden was popular.

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[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 58 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck conservatives always and forever.

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[–] aubertlone@lemmy.world 47 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (17 children)

Not only are we in the worst timeline....

I actually don't have anything to add.

How did we get here? And even more terrifying how many people that actually went to go vote were surprised that Biden wasn't on the ticket?!?!

And let me just go ahead and get myself in trouble. Fuck you every single person that didn't vote for Kamala Harris that was eligible.

SPECIFICALLY...

Well I guess I don't want to get in trouble that bad.

Yes, this is the fucking bullshit we live with. Due to our winner-take-all insanely backwards system....

I'm not technically allowed to properly criticize whomever didn't show up to the polls.

Whatever groups they may or may not belong to.

Yeah I'm sounding like a motherfucking Maga bitch right now.....

But guess what Arab Americans and black men??!?!!? ( if and only if those are demographics that didn't show up to vote )

Get completely and totally fucked by the Trump administration. Has nothing to do with me and everything do with them

Edit:

For what it's worth I'm terribly sorry for not including the Latino vote that went to Trump

Ultimately it doesn't really matter which particular demographic I blame because the truth is I'm not blaming anyone in particular.

Fuck America, fuck me, and fuck Trump

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 30 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Now, since bOtH SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE, watch as Democrats file 600 lawsuits and scream about election fraud for 4 years, never once acknowledging the fact that there's been no evidence of any /s

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