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It's not a testament to her abilities, it's a depressing statement about the state of America that a convicted felon, rapist, fascist loudman can be neck and neck with probably one of the smartest, most highly accomplished presidential candidates we've had in quite a while

The fact that the election is a toss up shows to me just how dumb America is.

The choice is an average politician or an orange wannabe fascist ..... and a good percentage of the country can't decide? Or they choose the fascist?

The fact that it is even a close race just displays in big giant signs just generally how stupid the country has become.

I normally don't like being that blunt or unkind but these people are literally holding the future of the world in their hands and they have no freaking clue what they are doing.

I'm not American and it is completely frustrating to sit outside as we watch a bunch of idiots being indecisive about either choosing normalcy or insanity. It's such a hard question for America that they need to have a never ending debate about it.

I'd argue the opposite.

The fact that Americans are possibly still voting for someone who will bring in the Fourth Reich if elected, over the first female president is a sign of just how badly Democrats have dropped the ball. ESPECIALLY after Jan 6th.

The fact that it's close is a testament to the idiocy and racism of the American public.

It's honestly unreal that Trump is even in the race, let alone in a position to pull off a possible win. After everything that has happened. I try to keep a positive spirit in general, but it's not easy to be optimistic on behalf of the US right now.

Did she win? No? Then it doesn't fucking matter!

What? Should she be getting a participation trophy? Sorry, I can't hear you over how Ukraine is being annexed by Russia.

How on earth is Harris being tied with the worst presidential candidate in history spun as a good thing?

Leave it to the modern journalist to spin a loss as a win. Comedic at best.

Why is no one discussing Dems have lost the senate and given a bigger majority in the house to Republicans. Even without Trump they are bound to control house and the senate.

Stand by for nothing happening for the next 2 years or worse.

Edit: If Kamala loses, and it looks like she might, I'm blaming her and her campaign. She could have swooned the beliefs of America if she had ran on something better.

Her political skills are trash.

Kamala gained the most approved points after Biden gave her the race.

Since then, her approval rating has plummeted compared to her early numbers, and I think this is because Kamala doesn't really know what to believe.

You can see it with Tim Walz. There was a lot of momentum when Kamala took up the mantle, and that momentum was carried through once the Walz pick came out. Then, around the DNC, the campaign's tone shifted, crawling back to the ethos of the Biden administration. I think this is because Kamala couldn't decide to break away from Biden or not, and because she waited so long, she was around a lot of the same people in the Biden administration, and those people influenced her platform. You can also see this with marijuana and how she changed sides in her time between being DA and senator. Also, how she didn't really have a solid platform to begin with, which should have been established right when Walz was picked.

I'm not here to call her out as a flip flopper. I'm pointing to how she could have steamrolled this election, but chose not to. It saddened me so much when the campaign had silence Tim for his views and policies when those views and policies were the key to victory.

She seems to have lost worse than Hillary...

are you kidding me. how is someone like trump even able to get nominated much less win a general. satan I miss last millenium.

Lol what a spin.

The fact that the election is a toss-up, rather than a Harris landslide, is proof that American democracy is already fully collapsed.

I would have said this aged like milk after Trump's landslide-even-the-popular-vote victory, but even milk doesn't sour this fast. This aged like unrefrigerated shellfish.

/r/agedLikeMilk

Close, but no cigar does not preserve actual democracy, unfortunately.

Calling yourself a democracy, and being a democracy are two very different things. The first proper word in North Korea's official country name is "Democratic", and bear in mind Russia holds "elections" as well.

I am not dismissing Kamala Harris here but the Democrats could have pitted a cold cut sandwich against Trump and the race would be just as tight. This is a race between fascism and not.

~~What's more amazing is that no one is saying "is America ready for a woman president?" this time around, like they were in 2016. It's refreshing, but also sad that it took this long.~~

Never fucking mind. At this point I decide whether suicide or applying for a green card is the easier option.

People: "We don't want old!" Biden: "I still got this!" Debate. "Maybe I don't." Harris: "I'm not old!" People: "Good enough!"

Are you fucking kidding? This campaign has been a fucking train wreck. There was genuine excitement behind her candidacy when Biden stepped down, and Walz actually generated even more enthusiasm. Since then, she has spent every moment of the campaign killing that energy. She alienated Muslim and Arab voters by refusing to allow a Palestinian speaker at the DNC. She's alienated her progressive base by campaigning with Liz Cheney and Laura Bush to court moderate Republicans. They're literally rerunning the 2016 playbook and saying, "Yeah, but this time I've got a good feeling about it!"

I hope she wins, and if you're reading this and you haven't voted yet, please just vote for her, especially if you live in a swing state. But Jesus Fucking Christ, let's not pretend she'd even have a shot of winning if she wasn't up against a facist rapist.

No it's not, liberals tried the age old tactic of getting minorities and the working class to vote for neoliberals that have devastated their well being for 50 years because the GOP is racist, and for some reason it didn't work this time.

Y'all took the wrong lesson from COVID and 2020. It wasn't that voters were going to continue to put up with Democrat's fealty to the right and corporate donors. It was that COVID was so unprecedented that they held their nose one last time. ,

The enduring fact is that our election cycles don't have to last years. She did this in a little over 100 days.

Trump would be a disaster, but these last-minute hopeful headlines just smack of desperation. I just saw another one saying Harris had "suddenly jumped into the lead" because one model put here at 50.015% of the vote. It's nothing to be thrilled about, especially with the Republicans set to employ every underhanded tactic they can to steal the victory. In any normal country there would be no competition between these two, but this is the USA.