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Go through history: After successive losses Bill Clinton went center on the economy, as you do against an incumbent, and won. Gore when left with climate change and lost. Obama relied on "hope" and won after Bush's disastrous wars. Hillary said she'd have a map room to fight climate change and lost. Biden went center, as you do against an incumbent, and won. Kamala tried to copy Obama's "hope" and energy, but it didn't work because "it's the economy, stupid". *She didn't run to the left on policy (because she saw that didn't help Biden after he passed all those left things) but she still relied on the left to show up for their human fucking rights. They couldn't even do that.
Every time the Dems lose it's because they relied on the left that didn't show up, and the Dems only win when they go center.
That's... interesting... I don't know about Bill Clinton, not too familiar with that part of American history, but Gore? Gore won but didn't demand a recount of Florida. Obama relied on leftist policies and wiped the floor with the GOP. Hillary lost because she was a "hold your nose and vote for her" centrist, not because she relied on leftists what the fuck are you even talking about? Harris did the same thing as Hillary and predictably lost.
and even the biden win was just stupidly close given trump literally drove your whole country head first into the top “fucked up the pandemic” spot
Can I find anything about the Biden win being close? I wasn't following that election that closely.
Go look at the numbers, particularly Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona. Biden won those states, but by a razor thin margin. If he had lost those states, he wouldn't have won the electoral college. It would have taken less than 50,000 votes in those states flipping to Trump to change the outcome of the 2020 election.
Of course, that's just the electoral college. Biden won the popular vote by a pretty comfortable margin.
It took the better part of a week for the results to be conclusive.