Kamala Harris Came Much Closer to Winning Than You Think

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-15 18:13:57 | Updated at 2024-11-27 03:15:06 1 week ago

Kamala Harris Came Much Closer to Winning Than You Think
New York Magazine ^ | 11/15/2024 | Ed Kilgore

Posted on 11/15/2024 9:55:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind

As is inevitable in any losing presidential effort, a lot of the fingers being pointed at Democratic culprits are aimed at the Harris-Walz campaign, with a big negative assist from the former Biden-Harris campaign that was terminated in July. Some critics think Kamala Harris failed sufficiently to “pivot to the center” when the Trump campaign was pounding her as “radical communist”; others believe she erred by failing to go hard-core lefty populist. Still others seem to be certain she should have junked her billion-dollar ad blitz and instead appeared on a few dozen podcasts.

The reality is that while the Harris-Walz campaign was national in scope, its efforts (as were those of the Trump-Vance campaign) were concentrated to an extraordinary degree on the seven universally recognized battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin that decided the election. So if her campaign had any positive net impact, you should be able to see it there. And as the Washington Post’s Philip Bump calculated a couple of days after Trump was declared the winner, you actually can see it if you compare these states to the country as a whole:

The Post’s model estimates that, when all of the votes are counted, only one state, Colorado, will have seen its vote margin shift to the left. Every other state and D.C. will have shifted to the right.

The last time an election saw that uniform a shift was in 1992, when all but one state shifted to the left as Bill Clinton was elected president…..

On average, states are likely to end up having shifted about 4.6 points to the right since 2020….

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...

TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024; kamala; votes

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As per the latest data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election

TRUMP WON 312 Electoral Votes While Kamala had 226

States carried by Trump 31 + ME-02 States carried by Kamala 19 + DC + NE-02

Popular vote:

Trump: 76,071,708 (50.2%) Kamala: 73,137,829 (48.2%)

1 posted on 11/15/2024 9:55:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind

To: SeekAndFind

2 posted on 11/15/2024 9:55:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind

To: SeekAndFind

Of course she did. She had that 50% of baby killers and young baby killer wannabes voting for her. The voters who don’t GAS about America and Americans.

3 posted on 11/15/2024 9:57:52 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Jamaicans Haitians and Indians used to run motels and 7-11s. Now,they run Congress and the judiciary)

To: FlingWingFlyer

No, that’s not true.

The only thing Harris had going for her was fake votes.

But like in 2016, the deciding factor is we knew how to cancel enough fake votes in the right places.

4 posted on 11/15/2024 9:59:09 AM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)

To: FlingWingFlyer

A map with red and blue coloring shows individual county results in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

5 posted on 11/15/2024 9:59:47 AM PST by SeekAndFind

To: SeekAndFind

I fully expected this.

There are two ways a party can go after losing a campaign. One is introspection. An assessment of what went wrong and a plan for adjustment. Of course, each faction of a party seeks to blame the other so as to steer the boat.

The other is to double down. In order to do that, you have to excuse the loss as an anomaly or re-cast it is “not really that bad.”

The Dems are opting for the double down. Articles like this are their way of convincing themselves that they didn’t lose.

6 posted on 11/15/2024 10:02:46 AM PST by FlipWilson

To: SeekAndFind

Kamala’s loss is all ‘Joe’s fault mantra’. From the last sentence in this whine-—

“”””But nobody should blame her for failing to overcome the dead weight of an administration too many voters considered a disappointment if not a failure””””

To: SeekAndFind

... others believe she erred by failing to go hard-core lefty populist.

Uhm, Harris was hard-core elitist. Trump was already the hard-core populist.

8 posted on 11/15/2024 10:03:43 AM PST by AndyTheBear (Certified smarter than average for my species)

To: SeekAndFind

Horseshoes and hand grenades--the only thing that matters when "close":

9 posted on 11/15/2024 10:04:51 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)

To: SeekAndFind

Would have loved to have Virginia. Stupid Fairfax and Louden counties!!!!

10 posted on 11/15/2024 10:04:57 AM PST by Hammerhead

To: SeekAndFind

Another way of putting it is almost half of our country is made up of communists and socialists.

11 posted on 11/15/2024 10:05:16 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)

To: SeekAndFind

Mr Kilgore,
You don’t know what I think. So shut your stupid mouth.

12 posted on 11/15/2024 10:06:08 AM PST by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)

To: I want the USA back

I keep seeing districts that voted for Trump but kept their congressman. Golden in Main. Sandler in Va(quit-going for gov.)

If it’s a 5k shortfall we’re the ones coming up short.

13 posted on 11/15/2024 10:11:29 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET

To: DIRTYSECRET

Deep blue districts. All the money should be spent in winnable districts. Token opposition-that’s it.

14 posted on 11/15/2024 10:12:34 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET

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