For context, it’s the elite media types who are pushing for some sort of contested convention — not the bulk of the Democratic voters.
Even if we had gone to an open convention, you should have expected whomever to come out of it with a massive head of steam behind them.
Biden was and is wildly unpopular. Historically so. Maybe he recovers a bit between now and the end of days. People get rose colored glasses and all, but he was absolutely bringing the entire nation down.
That all being said, and as one who is now officially “in the coconut tree”, she sure af did whip up a frenzy in 24 hours. Its like, Obama level energy on the calls rn. Just goes to show you how defective the poltical “wisdom” that we needed to stick with Biden was. I still think just about any candidate would have caught this energy, but there were real problems with almost any other candidate other than Harris. I also think they left money on the table not taking it to an open convention, but its def a trade off. 3 weeks of campaigning versus about a bil. in free advertising that an open conv would have represented? Also was an opportunity to win back some good grace with voters by injecting at least a modicum of democracy into the DNC.
But yeah. That call with the Black Women for Harris, and then the next day with Black men for Harris. I mean thats historic.
This is nuts, and I’m waiting for literally any useful polling to come out (not realistic for at least another 2 weeks), but I’ve been reviewing the 2016 and 2020 district maps for Florida since Friday, digging back into those results.
Hottest dumbest take: I think Florida might go for Kamala. It went Obama twice, and it was black women and black men in the state of Florida that made that happen. I wont have the data fully worked up and the redistricting makes it more difficult, but at least in the aggregate, its at lease within the MOE if we assume things to be ‘fairly’ similar to 2012, 2016 and 20.
She’s not finished.
Because they were sleepwalking into a slow moving disaster.
Now it is thier race to loose, because it felt like they were going to loose anyway so they might as well go for broke.
Who else was there?
Half the reason everyone people shushed calls for Biden to drop out was the total absence of anyone it woulda “shoulda been.” And if he hadn’t, the same “but will he? but will he? but will he?!” would hound the campaign every goddamn day. Talking heads would go “… and that’s the third baby The Idiot fucked. In other news, is Biden going to drop out before tomorrow’s election? Here’s sixteen people to discuss what that’d mean for the horse race.”
Meanwhile all the headlines on Lemmy are about right-wing bigots attacking her, instead of being about… her.
If you haven’t realized that she and the rest of the staff have been running the show since 2020 you probably should have an ice cream and step aside as well.
So you’re saying that she has a ton of experience? She was the one who got us out of Trump’s COVID slump?Sounds like a great candidate.
Yeah Harris wins and nothing will change, status quo, continue steadily on the same course. That is how dynamic and exciting she is. Just hold your nose because the alternative to a corporate owned democrate is a con artist reality TV show host only interested in the enrichment of his life.
What corporations do you think “own” Harris? Besides that being a racist thing to say about a black woman, what the fuck are you talking about?
In the Senate, her largest amount of donations came from employees of the University of California:
You’re just saying things that you want to be true, without verifying them.
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So what, you saying I’m a Russian plant, or an ai bot? Ok, You caught me I’m Kamala! Good work Sherlock.
Yeah buddy your right they called him iron Joe because he ruled so fiercely. He made every decision personally /s.
Watch the highlight real of him, he has sucked since 2016-which is why he didn’t run back then.
On the other hand it’s not like trump ran the show personally, he mostly golfed, tweeted and scammed.
