Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

To place gun ownership and the 2nd amendment above all else is a right wing view. But that's not what you said is it? Are you moving the goalposts now because you realise you are wrong or is you grasp on left/right, guns/no-guns really that black and white? Which is honestly a view I'd expect from an 5 year old.

Claiming that every single gun owner is a 2A zealot, and therefore anyone with a gun is far right, is to be frank, absolutely clueless. Especially when it was compared to Europe, and highlights claims being made with zero knowledge of the matter.

Like everything, views of firearm ownership is a spectrum. It's entirely possible to in in favours of civilian firearm ownership, and also be in favour of responsible gun control.

But if you only form your opinions on the extremists, then your going to be way out of touch. (case in point, this election).

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Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh that one cuts deep

Why Americans would vote for a convicted felon, a fraudster, a known liar, and a adjudicated rapist, who paid off a porn star with campaign finances and then lied about it

Maybe, just maybe. A large chunk of Americans didn't buy this narrative and perceived that the Democrats were utilising the politically biased justice system to get rid of a rival candidate. You know the type of thing that goes on in third world banana republics, and they did not like it.

The democrats in the past few years just picked the most pointless battles aswell.

They rowed in behind trans-women in women's sports and demonised anyone who stated that it's unfair to allow transgender women in women's sports.Anyone with half a brain can see it's clearly unfair to have biological males in women's sports and yet the democrats decided that even when 85-90% of people are opposed to trans women in womens sports they still decided to support it.

The railed against voter ID yet again most sensible people are in favour of voter ID and anyone with sense is in favour of it because having to present ID if you want to vote exists all across the world.

This made them look like complete idiots and I think these 2 issues probably played some role in swaying some voters as they were pointless things to make a big deal about and yet they did.

facilitated by SpaceX / Musk … there'll be a woman on the moon before there's one in the White House

Exactly, because it's non-partisan issue. The ignorance around firearms is staggering, understandably so when people get their views from mass media and facebook. But that doesn't make it any less ignorant

Still thinking about that late Seltzer poll for Iowa.

What were they thinking?

No one is going to trust any of their numbers again.
Iowa has gone 13%+ for Trump.

That means that the poll was 16% out.

I think one of the things that has become quite profound in American politics, is the huge imbalance of political influence Republicans have on social and new media. People will say this is countered by mainstream media being quite liberal, but nobody trusts msm anymore and viewership numbers are dwindling.

The reality is Republicans, through rich donors (and probable foreign actors) have invested and built a huge right wing eco-system online where political information and talking points are distributed. Influencers push right wing narratives that engage and energise their base and attract all kinds of demographics, but particurly low propensity young male voters. And these right wing influencers have massive audiences, some I notice on Twitter/YT have millions of subscribers and views.
Left wing social media has nothing close to this. They talk about Democrats having a good ground game, but it’s not worth much in 2024. I’m sure people would have noticed Trump going on tonnes of podcasts, this more than made up for the lack of ground game by Republicans. At the end of the day, despite Trump being quite undisciplined in his messaging this election, he still controlled the narrative around inflation, as well as the border, foreign policy, etc. And that control will continue until democrats find a way of catching up on improving their messaging and communication to the public.

I really don't buy the idea that if she has more time to campaign she would have won or at least done much better. Her highest poll numbers were all early in once she had the nomination. The longer it went on, the more people saw her the less popular she became. It's hardly a shock, when she ran for the nomination in 2016 she got nowhere. She simply isn't a likeable or skilled politician.