Goes to show the power and efficacy of right wing media and advertising. I expect my MAGA family members with high school educations to believe shit about transgender surgeries on people in prison. I don’t expect people with multiple degrees from places like UNC to swallow it so eagerly.
I do. Remember the election isn’t decided by what the majority of Trump voters want but what the majority of low-information swing voters want.
“People need to be convinced” is a phrase/statement that galls me.
So your answer to voters saying that Dems were “placing too much emphasis on social issues that they consider less urgent” is to say that Dems in fact should have talked more about social issues?
Lol.. a poster asked a question and I offered an opinion. That's not getting "worked up".
In what way are they not your team? Have you been a secret liberal all this time, posting nothing but conservative stuff? Gleefully at times?
What's the excuse for the 45% of voters who aren't swing voters but are voting for this bullshit? And I'm sorry, I'm not going to accept this "it's the economy" conclusion when there is absolutely no objective evidence for that.
You gotta play defense in politics, too.
Wouldn't have done anything. Because while it was a great ad, read between the lines. "They/them" isn't actually about trans people, any more than Kristi Noem's story of shooting her dog was about the dog.
Who cares about them? They don’t decide elections any more than the Superrifics of the world who will never vote for a Republican.
That's not how they count the votes.
Im not necessarily disagreeing with that. Im saying it’s a weird thing to say in response to the premise that voters supposedly want Dems to talk about economic issues, not social issues. I’ve been very clear that I don’t believe voters actually mean that.
She needed to respond. Ignoring it was the worst strategy. And HY may be right that the reason Kamala didn’t respond is because she didn’t want to ruffle any feathers on the left.
I don't know if we are talking about the same things. I'm not only talking about the 2024 election, but even there I don't think you're right.
I agree it was a very effective ad. I also agree Kamala’s response to it (or lack thereof) was terrible. But the idea that the BOP must provide gender affirming care is not “nonsense.” It’s the law. As Trump’s own administration affirmed.
Nobody on here said it wasn’t an effective ad or an effective line of attack. What we are saying is that it is the *Republican Party* who is bizarrely obsessed with transgender people, not the Democratic Party. Look at the couple of Trump voter posters we have here- it’s quite literally all a couple of them talk about.
Kamala didn't respond because she didn't want to talk about that issue, which makes sense. I'm no political operative. I don't know whether "ignoring it was the worst strategy." I don't know that anyone knows that.
Ironically I first heard the "stop digging " phrase when John Kerry used it against W in the 2004 campaign. You're the poster child for the frantic "sky is falling" partisan. The country is literally burning?? Seriously? Maybe part of a county in LA..