06-22-2021, 08:56 PM
(06-22-2021, 05:47 PM)Dill Wrote: If your point is that Dem voters overwhelmingly "disliked" Harris, then I'm not ignoring it, just rejecting it. Many candidates dropped in the polls, not because people disliked them, but because they liked other candidates better. And I don't see that you have any other evidence for this imputed "dislike" than that people preferred other candidates. I didn't vote for Williamson, but I didn't "dislike" her.
The Mississippi stats give us some indication of how states with large Black populations might have gone, had Harris stayed in the race.
Rejecting it based on what? Look at the bare facts and provide us with an explanation for why Harris was so unpopular.
Quote:You still haven't specified any examples of "rank hypocrisy and utter lack of convictions." It's not like she was pro-choice and then became pro-life when she ran for president. She presented herself as a "progressive prosecutor" from the beginning of her career. That's a narrow path to walk.
"Progressive prosecutor?" Either you're very susceptible to bullshit or you have no idea of her record as a prosecutor. Unless you consider jailing parents of chronic truants to be progressive. Is that what you're claiming?
Quote:The "silly" sentence establishes that 1) people voting in primaries are making selections based on something more than a "D,"
Which in a Democratic primary rightfully earns you the response of; no shit, Sherlock.
Quote:and 2) that sets up the question of whether that "something more" is at play when it's D vs R. You've answered "no." If you are correct, that means Harris or Gabbard or even Hillary would have had the same vote totals as Biden. That is in effect what you are asserting.
Absolutely. At the most you'd see less votes for one of them due to an enthusiasm gap. You would not see an increase in the black vote for the candidate with the "R" next to their name, which is the point.
