put all of your election posting here so it doesn't bother anyone else!
from @CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net:
For Agitprop purposes, I’m asking comrades to help aggregate any and all effortpost responses, critiques, or general thoughts that you have seen or written pertaining to yesterday’s U.S. election that you think have standalone value for discussion either online or IRL.
I made a post for that purpose here, and ideally it can be used not only for general discussion, but as a reference for well thought out responses in discussions about the election to save all of us some brainpower.
No shitposts please, as we’d like to highlight some comrades’ actual effort in constructing responses or analysis, but humor is 100% welcome to help make your point!
Honestly I don't think Vance as VP was a mistake, I actually think Waltz as VP was a mistake by the Harris campaign considering they were running some Republican lite campaign, there's many VP candidates better for such a campaign. While Waltz had the initial momentum on his side with the jokes and Vance's awkwardness, this quickly fell to the wayside after the VP debate. In that debate, Vance beat Waltz convincingly, which started Harris' downturn in the polls. The first domino to fall, so to speak. Waltz fumbled the bag hard during that debate, which began the shift of momentum from Harris to Trump.
Counterpoint: the entire election was a referendum on "is Trump cool?"
VPs never really matter unless it's Cheney or HW being shadow presidents