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    Harris was popular when she first announced. She then proceeded to run to the cold dead embrace of the Biden campaign.

    Progressive policy is more popular than any candidate, if they focused on rent control, free healthcare, free childcare, free college and other immediate, material improvements to people’s conditions, they’d have won in a landslide. Instead they abandoned the rest of the country to pursue the <10% of republicans who weren’t in the bag for Trump.

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      Harris was popular when she first announced.

      I don’t think she was popular when first announced, rather the fact that not-Biden was popular.

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      Instead they abandoned the rest of the country to pursue the <10% of republicans who weren’t in the bag for Trump.

      YES! I held my nose and voted for her, she turned her back on everything that looked like hope and change during her campaign. Her reaction to R looking weak was to jump to the right, somehow.

      Having said that, anyone who needed to be wooed to not vote for Trump was a lost cause, but she literally turned away from every sort of policy decision that excites Democrats.

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        That’s bizarre, were people confused by the wording? Was there a media blitz by local landlords? More people are renters than landlords so obviously the majority doesn’t want rent to be higher.

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          There was a massive media campaign against it. Every other political ad on tv was against it .

          Progressive policies are popular until billionaires spend millions of dollars convincing people that the world will end if we help poor people a bit.

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            That’s true, we need a strategy to deal with the media.

            The same thing could be observed when even the most right-wing democrats in 2020 were saying we need police reform, and in 2022, they were all talking about a made-up crime wave, or how every election until now, reliable dem voters understood immigration is a net positive for society, but suddenly they’re talking about how Kamala is going to secure the border