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Harris Tried to Win Over Republicans. Democratic Support Collapsed Instead. (www.rollingstone.com)

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Harris only received five percent of Republican votes — less than the six percent Joe Biden won in 2020 when he beat Trump, as well as the seven percent won by Hillary Clinton in 2016 when she lost to him. While Harris won independents and moderates, she did so by smaller margins than Biden did in 2020.

Meanwhile, Harris lost households earning under $100,000, while Democratic turnout collapsed. Votes are still being counted, but Harris is on pace to underperform Biden’s 2020 totals by millions of votes.

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[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Democrats called those Twitter users Russian trolls. They are now advocating to restrict social media so this cannot happen again.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

They are now advocating to restrict social media so this cannot happen again.

source?

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Saw a brazen example yesterday about how social media is the fault of it all. It was an article like this one https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/07/10-democratic-thinkers-on-what-the-party-needs-right-now-00187993

What we’ve seen is that tens of millions have opted into a right-wing information bubble, largely online, that has grown to eclipse almost the entire traditional media infrastructure. Often, in that bubble, they’ve become the willing consumers of lies and outrage. Trump’s real misdeeds are whitewashed while audiences are encouraged to embrace cathartic rage against rotating groups of enemies — many of which seem to suspiciously mirror historically unpopular minorities. In this fractured information environment, clownish strongmen thrive, their meme-like public personas enrapturing otherwise disengaged voters — a trend we’ve seen across the globe, as social media increasingly displaces traditional media.

Democrats need to recognize that it is impossible to win votes by improving voters’ lives, when your opponent has a national rage machine it can toggle on or off at will. We will see the next iteration of this game soon enough, when the right switches to praising the precise economy they blasted for years, likely spiking economic satisfaction through the roof. This capacity — dominating media and social media, and its power to shape public opinion — has been the obsessive focus of the right for years. Democrats have almost completely ignored these questions in favor of wonky policy and kitchen-table economics. If the party continues to ignore this problem, it courts oblivion. Democrats must find a way to make headway in modern media, and wrest more control of the national information environment from Trump and his band of thugs.

My favorite line

Let’s start with where Democrats should NOT go. We should not blame Vice President Kamala Harris or her campaign.

[-] FanBlade@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago

Why didn’t you quote the part where they are discussing restricting it?

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Too much effort to go look for it. Keep an eye out and you will frequently come across an article where they discuss the need for "more control over social media because of foreign interference".

[-] FanBlade@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 years ago

“I’m not lying, I’m lazy”

Dope

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You don't remember the TikTok fiasco from a few months ago? It is basically the same thing but for Twitter.

[-] FanBlade@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 2 years ago

Still being lazy I see

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Source?

[-] FanBlade@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago

https://lemmy.world/comment/13344953

“Too much effort to go look for it”

See how I give a source and a relevant quote?

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