Jaime Harrison has got to learn. Pushing identity politics above all other issues is the problem. Your party sat around for four years and didn’t worry about the crashing REAL economy at all. That’s why you lost.
Identity politics wasn’t pushed above everything else. I can remember Medicare negotiations, overtime thresholds, infrastructure, EPA wins in poor southern communities, unprecedented union support, and at least two domestic silicon industries broke historic amounts of ground because of the IRA and CHIPs specifically.
Biden-Harris administration focused on the economy more than any other administration since FDR.
Some people just don’t like identity politics and they will try to use Harris’s loss as an opportunity to preach against such politics. I’m glad that Mr. Harrison can also see through it.
This popped into my twitterfeed the other day.
Not a single group scored more than 37% “blue.”
I wonder if they polled college faculty or media types what the results would be?
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It’s baked into the party it’s going to awhile to get rid of the ick considering they don’t just double down. Republicans had to revamp their party after bush jr blew it up. They where never going to win at the presidential election again aka McCain/Romney it took a whole different message.
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It’s not icky. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that part of the democratic party. Identity politics is often just telling the voter what Republicans say, what they’ve done, and what they promise to do.
The GOP will provide all the evidence necessary to prove that the message was correct, but just hard too swallow.
Yay! They’re continuing, guys. 4 more years! 4 more years!
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You’d think with all that “success” she’d be a shoe in.
You can remember them. But they were not pushed. They emphasized identity politics and abortion. The average go to work person doesn’t have any clue about those things. Hell I am reasonably up on things and would have never heard of chips act if not for you on here. As for the others I either have no idea what you are talking about EPA for example or just consider it a Democrat thing unions for example.
They did a horrible job at messaging and insulted a lot of people in process.
Yeah I thnk you’re your right.
Identity politics wasn’t pushed above everything else and the Dems lost.
Dems should adopt a new strategy and focus on identity poltics even more.
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None of that nonsense is remotely true.
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You can. The voters don’t.
He did say southern communities. I’m in the northeast, been a union member since forever, and never heard of anything he mentioned. The EPA, the only thing that comes to mind is the Environmental Protection Agency.
They remember, and just take the progress for granted.
The ACA was a great example of this, where Americans hadn’t thought about pre-existing conditions for 7 years and set a unified Republican government loose in the chinashop.
Immediately afterwards, healthcare tops both the economy and immigration as a voter priority.
The voters didn’t become better informed about Obamacare all of sudden. The ACA was an 8 year old law at that point. Everyone knew how it worked, but some people had to bump to get out of their feelings.
All of this is right but this also screams that Dems can’t sell the economy or Obamacare or anything else in this election
Wow. According to that poll, every issue favored the Democrats. Kind of odd, then, that they lost the executive, Senate and House.
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That’s because it’s from 2018. 
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Ah. Must remember the small print. The 2024 election results show how well people thought Democrats handled these issues when given the chance, then.
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Oh look a federal judge believes race quotas are better for the US Military Academies!
The hell with meritocracy, the best and the brightest 
Everybody knows officers have the respect from the enlisted corps when their commission comes from skin color. 
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