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Did you vote Undecided or uncommitted? Do you have friends or family in the ME? Are you a young person whose rights are being stripped away on college campuses, something that a candidate like Shapiro supports? Do you see US foreign policy as fundamentally racist and in support of a genocide? If you didn't answer yes to those issues, or If you don't support the Palestinian peoples cause, the VP pick might not be a deciding factor for you.
The fact is 13% of voters in MI voted undecided, largely for the reasons I mentioned above, about 100,000 voters. MI only went Biden by 150k votes in the general. Wisconsin, 8.3%, Minnesota, 19%, unaffiliated or undecided or uninstructed. That's a more than consequential number of voters who need to be brought back in for Harris to claim that state.
If Harris is good enough for you, then she should be good enough for you regardless of her VP pick and you can just go back to not knowing who your neighboring states Governors are. But there are plenty who see her foreign policy as a direct extension of the Biden WH, and a guy like Shapiro is going to look like more of the same. This is how politics works. You have to make appeals to specific demographics and blocks of voters.
The idea that winning elections has ever been about appeals to the center has always been incorrect. Winning elections is about appealing to and driving out specific demographics of voters.
As a "Never Trump" conservative, you should consider yourself fortunate enough to at least have access to a party that has kept its sanity through the decades of mess that Republicans built up for us, starting with Reagan. Its a big tent party, and making demographic appeals based on policy are part of the process.
Just because something isn't a priority for you doesn't mean it isn't a priority for someone else.
I wouldn’t call myself a “Never Trump” conservative, true that it may be. I’m more of a pro-healthcare, pro-science conservative. So while there are conservative values I agree with, I will never vote for people with the following views: anti-abortion, trans are not people, election was rigged with no proof, anti-vaccine, climate change is not real.
But I guess I do understand that I’m not the target for VP appeal right now. I didn’t like Biden and I don’t like Harris. But anyone on the Democrat side is much better than anyone on the Republican side right now.
Admittedly, I am warming on Harris. Yes, I don’t like her record incarcerating people of color in California. Yes, she did do it less than her predecessors - but she still did it. She is showing improvement.
Whitmer, bad though she is, could help Harris with Michigan. Whitmer isn’t genuine but she understands the game, I suppose. People hate on me for not liking Whitmer, but after Trump left office I realized her main appeal was as a counter to Trump rhetoric. She does a bunch of stupid, symbolic stuff. She holds corporate interests over the people. She’s a politician because she wants power not because she wants to help people and I just can’t get behind that.
Which of your views do you have that you consider yourself conservative?
I’m asked about this a lot on this site lol
I agree that the government should reign in its spending - although I disagree with the typical conservative in where and how. For example, I believe that NASA should move exclusively to fixed prices contracts. In fact, it has worked well enough that I believe the military should work that way too
I believe that typical liberals jump too quickly at new technology. For example, I think democrats are really putting the cart before the horse with electric cars. I believe that we should mandate electrical charging infrastructure to match or exceed ICE “charging” stations BEFORE electric cars are mandated. I also believe that there may be a better technology and/or method than semi-permanently mounted high voltage car batteries. In fact, eliminating cars in general may be the best method after all.
I am against bicycle infrastructure over car infrastructure. I think bicycle infrastructure is worse for the majority, especially in area with colder winters. I believe a subway system is the way to go. I also believe that it’s not okay to start deteriorating car infrastructure before an alternative is in place.
I believe (generally) I’m a capitalist society. I believe that, if regulated to INCREASE (or preserve) competition, that the problem will take care of itself. I don’t believe in too big to fail (sorry Boeing, sorry car companies, sorry banks)
I believe that we need to clamp down on illegal immigration but that we should increase the number of people so that we can properly vet more people for LEGAL immigration
I believe I should be able to own any gun I want so long as I am able to pass a stringent background check. More controversial is that I believe that every gun owner should be in a federal database and that if you are ever caught doing anything unsafe with firearms, you will never be able to pass the background check again.
I am extremely anti-marijuana. I am open to research, but I believe it should be illegal until it is proven to be safe
I believe that we should be able to disagree and that the whole “team” aspect of politics is stupid. We should be able to vote on someone based on their platform and NOT their party (im looking at you, Texas. I’m also looking at you, vote blue no matter who). I think political parties are stupid.
I have a feeling they are wealthy and have voted Rep to keep that wealth
There’s nothing wrong with being wealthy. It means you have the opportunity to contribute more to society than those with less means (and we should fix the tax loopholes that allow otherwise). Past a certain point, your effective tax should be 99.9%.
I also believe that fines should be proportional to income. If you’re going to charge the person who makes $30,000/yr a $300 ticket, you should charge someone who makes $1,000,000 $10,000 for the same offense. Wealth should not be able to buy you out of things like that. Bail should also be set proportionally.
Also, I am not wealthy