I mean also a bunch of them think that their security will be through the second coming so

ugh meant to type yellow threat and i'm just so mentally exhausted

My dad will often go live in motels and knock on doors in swing states for weeks on end and he couldn't bring himself to do that last year

as someone who has gone door to door in heavy early-season sleet for national candidates, can confirm

when a candidate releases a statement that is shockingly against expectations, those doors won’t be walked

i have kids at home & i’d sooner spend time with them than work against them

A lot of replies to this thread along the lines of "they don't care about security because look at how they're handling climate change and vaccines"

They do care. They have an alternate theory of security that's focused on securing militarized technofascism using AI and quantum physics.

I remain convinced that the first woman to become president will either be a terrifying war hawk OR a woman that I can imagine comfortably going to a bar in jeans and a buttondown with her sleeves rolled up. AOC, but not Clinton or Harris. Obama did things like that. People forget he did that.

How many of us felt increasingly uncomfortable saying positive things about her in public? (Which is different from saying negative things about her opponent, which I think we were all on board with)

They definitely knew how to work with the fact that their candidate oozed charisma.

This was poorly worded I realize because obviously she did take a strong position on the genocide and the problem was that it was in support of it
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I am really tired of people talking about 2024 and refusing to acknowledge the LABOR of campaign volunteers who literally make or break the get out of the vote effort for candidates

What makes someone volunteer their labor? What discourages that? The "how to win" conversation must account for this.

Good campaign finance laws help but it also helps if people are literally THRILLED to join your street team. And a lot of people felt that way about Harris. And then they pulled out their Bill Clinton and Liz Cheney and Islamophobia and chipped away at all of that enthusiasm and good will.

The recent mayoral race in NYC is a difficult example because they have better campaign finance laws than federal elections do but I do think some lessons can be taken away because look, no one knew who Mamdani was and that guy had *no chance* of winning and soon he's going to be sworn in as mayor

There's a lot of talk about donors and bringing in money but at some point actually you need people to talk to each other and simply convince their community members that this candidate's success matters to them, personally. The best positioned volunteers to do that are enthusiastic volunteers!

Like Obama literally won in 2008 but running *against* that kind of militarism. And that's why radical lefties held their noses and knocked on doors for him! Did he make good on his promise? no lol

But he motivated his volunteer base and that volunteer base did their job and made history

People are going to assume I'm only talking about her atrocious decision to not take a strong position on the genocide. But I'm talking about the committed exclusion of trans people and Muslim people from the stage. The hawkish lines about militarism that so much of the base opposes.

The DNC convention was an opportunity to pull the big tent together and instead, Harris decided to tell most of the tent that she mostly cared about a segment of the tent that didn't give a fuck about whether key members of the base lived or died

Not how you motivate enthusiastic volunteering