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[–] brucethemoose 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It's the delivery.

Delivery is everything.

Trump reached these people, and Biden/Harris did not. It's that simple. The message does not matter if it doesn't get there. And this is a tremendous failure, considering the war chest the Dems squandered.

And I have zero faith they will learn from it. All the arguing I see is over policy that these people clearly never even laid eyes on.

[–] reddig33 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If by delivery you mean “lies and propaganda”.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Um, it's called sparkly commercials if it's from capitalism, it's only propaganda if it's from the province of communism.

[–] brucethemoose 3 points 1 month ago

Precisely.

Dems need to do the exact same thing, and more.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If it wasn't for The Voice I wouldn't have seen a single political ad. I recall very few if any YouTube ads, a buttload of Instagram ads, but pretty much every one of them was asking for money. Okay? Money to do what? Buy more ads asking for more money? I'm sure political ads aren't super effective in changing people's minds but they do get people start to think about the issues and ways to compare different candidates. Also, the most things I remember about the campaign were when Trump said something crazy and when Kamala responded to Trump saying something crazy. Her entire campaign was pretty much, "You don't want this other guy do you?" I have voted for very few candidates in my life and this time I definitely voted against Trump.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 10 points 1 month ago

I see zero ads beyond billboards and the occasional radio at if I happen to be at a store.

Other than one guy going around to make sure people had a plan for voting the only interaction I had with the Democratic campaign was them begging, PLEADING for money. A dozen texts a day. Two dozen emails. Three or four phone calls a day that never left a voicemail and have stopped since the election. (I didn't answer them.)

If that's what the rest of the Democratic base was subjected to it's no wonder they had a bad taste in their mouth about the election. Even though Trump won a part of me is glad the harassment has stopped.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

All I ever saw were ads of Obama asking for five dollars. Everytime I saw it all I could think was "Damn this is going to piss people off."