• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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    58 hours ago

    (I wasn’t sure whether to edit my comment or reply to your first post, so I’m putting this here)

    As for people voting on feels: I think that’s always been the case for most people. Most people are of average intelligence, with an average education and average interest in politics. They’re gonna vote based on vibes, so you have to get the vibes right or the average person won’t vote for you.

    And you can’t fake vibes by having a bunch of celebrities around.

    • @seaQueue
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      7 hours ago

      Clinton 1 and Obama were our last successful Dem candidates. You need a charismatic candidate with a consistent message that speaks to everyone if you want to win the popularity contest. Gore, Clinton 2 and Harris failed on both of those counts. Biden won only because of pandemic and government abuse/mismanagement backlash, he would have lost to Trump in other circumstances.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        38 hours ago

        In the immortal words of Bowling for Soup: “High school never ends.”

    • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)
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      15 hours ago

      They’re gonna vote based on vibes, so you have to get the vibes right or the average person won’t vote for you.

      And you can’t fake vibes by having a bunch of celebrities around.

      So why’d they vote for a rapist who is in pictures with goddamn Epstein? That’s the part I don’t understand. Are we seriously saying the average (American) is okay with a rapist being president because they like his vibes?

      • Captain Aggravated
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        13 hours ago

        As far as I can tell, it’s not that people who would have otherwise voted for Kamala instead voted for Donald. It’s that people who would have otherwise voted for Kamala, including many of those who did vote for Biden, just stayed home. “We’ve got policy plans and whatever” yeah that would never make it to implementation through a gridlocked congress and a hostile supreme court.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        15 hours ago

        They’re fucking weirdos with weird vibes.

        I’m much more interested in the folks who didn’t vote.