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Ryan Grim Jan 15, 2025

"From 2020 to 2024, Democrats saw a staggering dropoff in support at the presidential level, with some 19 million people who voted for Joe Biden staying home (or not mailing in their ballots) in 2024. Now, a new survey conducted by YouGov suggests Biden’s support for Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza played a surprisingly large role in the choice of those previous Biden supporters not to vote."

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No shit. She basically wishy-washed most of her policies until the last few weeks. Too little, too late.

I'll never get over the fact that searches for "Did Biden Drop Out" increased by a massive amount on election day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The article shows relative interest for the queried time period. For all they know, a week before the election one person searched for it and on election day 10 people did. The graph as is has no significance at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yet she lost. We lost. It's not insignificant. If there was a non-zero number of people who were unaware that Biden was out, our side failed.

He should have kept his promise to be a one term president. Hubris and bad advice from the inside failed us. Stop making excuses for a failed attempt.

Let's properly fix this. We're destined to lose again if we do not.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What if you just admitted that you were wrong about the significance of that search query instead of pivoting into something else

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm glad I'm not so stubborn.