BiggDick wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:24 pm
jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:12 pm
Two things can be true at the same time. Biden and Harris could have done better. The voters could have done better.
Can they?
I think it's obvious Biden and Harris could have done better - namely, and among other issues, they could have not been so tone deaf in their ongoing support of alleged war crimes abroad.
But, how could voters have done better?
My math is probably off but rounding off numbers, I am going to come up with some deductions and a final conclusion,
I think 29% of 604 is 175.
175 people claim the biggest (but not the only) reason why they didn't vote for Harris is because of “ending Israel’s violence in Gaza”. Maybe it's true, but I'm not buying it.
I'm going to guess 29% of that 175 couldn't find Gaza and Israel on a map.
Now were are down to 124 people who's response MIGHT have any legitimacy - to me.
Of those 124 who feel Israel/Gaza was the primary reason for them to not to vote for Harris, I'm going to guess 29% would answer that differently if they gave it some more thought and it was pointed out how the other options/factors ("the economy", Medicare, Social Security, immigration/border security, health care, etc.) in all actually, had a stronger affect on them.
Now were are down to 88 people.
I'm confident 29% of those 88 people have ZERO idea that Harris had said - “What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating. The images of dead children and desperate hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third or fourth time,”. “We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering and I will not be silent.”
and
"I expressed with the prime minister my serious concern about the scale of human suffering and Gaza, including the death of far too many innocent civilians. And I made clear my serious concern about the dire humanitarian situation there.”
Now we are down to 62 people who I feel MIGHT have really given a shit about Israel/Gaza.
Of those 62 people, I wouldn't be shocked if they were asked if the color of Harris' skin and her gender had any bearing on their not voting for her - and they took a lie detector test - that it would show it had SOME bearing on 29% of the 62 people.
Now were are down to 44 people.
Of those 44 people, I am confident 29% of them were heavily influenced by manipulative social media at some point/s over the past 15 months.
Now we are down to 31 people.
Of those 31 people, I'm guessing 29% have stronger negative opinions about Jews than they do about known terrorists who would like to see them as Americans dead. Forgetting anything about Israel and Gaza.
Now we are down to 22 people.
Of those 22 people, I wouldn't be surprised if 29% couldn't tell you who Tim Walz is but can tell you who Omarosa is.
Now we are down to 16 people.
Of those 16 people, I am going to guess 29% were baited by the person/people who were polling them.
Now we are down to 12 people.
Of those 12 people, I am guessing 29% have no idea that there are at least 7 known American hostages still in Gaza (and 100% of them can't name the 7 hostages).
Now we are down to 9 people.
Of those 9 people, I am guessing 29% would have voted for Trump no matter who he ran against and they really had no primary reason/s why other than they didn't like Harris.
Now we're down to 6 people.
Of those 6, I am guessing 29% of them live/ed in the same household as someone else who was polled and they responded Israel/Gaza because someone else responded Israel/Gaza.
Now we're down to 4 people.
Of those 4 people, I am guessing 29% were drunk or high.
Now we are down to 3 people.
3 fricking people whose opinion/s I will give some credence to.
Mazel Tov!
Life is one giant Gutterism.
