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"People are beginning to do a back-fill rationalization about how Harris ran a terrible campaign, but, folks, from my point of view that’s just nonsense. Her campaign had energy and enthusiasm, and she had solid policies that benefited actual people who are not already some type of phobic and/or richer than God. People were excited and ready for her to be president. This post-hoc revisionism about those facts is exasperating."
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in reply to Jcrabapple πŸ’™

I mean, since the invention of television Americans have nearly always elected the taller candidate. Add the primacy effect (candidates listed higher on the ballot get 10-15% more votes) and the fact that, historically, at least 20% of voters say they go to the polling place undecided... let's just say there are drawbacks to running your government on the Ad Populum fallacy.
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