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Liz U Kato's avatar

The key thing is that the majority of voters never heard anything Dems said because they are walled off by Fox and Sinclair - but they did hear from Musk’s $45M micro target ad blitz. We need to assess what message people heard before we decide they rejected it

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dale coberly's avatar

Waldman is right. but... while the candidates did not run on the issues the pundits think they ran on, it seems to me commentators on the left talked enough about them to scare away those leaning the other way. maybe that's because I listen to the wrong commentators. It is also the case that Trump and the commentators on the Right accused the Left of those things. And people tend to believe the lies they hear mosr often. One cannot watch a Trump rally and not be afraid for the nation that has such people in it.

Disenfranchisement might have played a role. And also those on the Left who thought they could refuse to vote for Biden because he disagreed with him on their pet issue w/o regard to the consequences of a Trump win,

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