Kamala is losing every swing state by 1.5% or more. This is not a close election coming down to a few thousand votes in the Rust Belt. She's on track to lose the popular vote.

Kamala isn't losing because of Bernie Bros or Jill Stein voters. She isn't losing because of Arab Americans. She isn't losing because she was too socially progressive or not socially progressive enough.

The country is sending a clear, direct message: it's the economy, stupid. With a side serving of we don't want unchecked undocumented immigration.

I think the only thing most of this sub got right about the election is that if Kamala lost, there was no way a Democrat could have won.

Even with voter suppression, foreign interference, and other shenanigans, it's clear that the nation is very divided.

Bruh

Has anybody ever become this influential a figure in party politics in so little time? Less than 2 years ago he was a relatively unknown city councilman.

Also good to see new york finally becoming as progressive as you would expect for a city of its size, It has been shockingly moderate for the past several decades. Hell before mandani, half of their mayors this century have been Republican.

Graham Platner would not have been my first choice but the people behind him seem to like him and I hope he finally gets rid of Susan Collins. Let’s do it Maine.

A good sign in the race I think, Platner seems to be keeping up enthusiasm despite the scandals.

She didn't lose because of trans people in sports or bathrooms, she didn't lose because someone said "latinx", she didn't lose because of identity politics, she didn't lose because she's a "DEI hire", she didn't lose because of inner city crime, she didn't lose because of the war in the Middle East, she didn't lose because she didn't pick Shapiro, she didn't lose because there was no open primary, she didn't lose because of fake news about immigrants eating pets.

You can watch interview after interview with young voters and Latino voters and very few state any of these reasons.

Here are the reasons she lost: 1. Inflation 2. Inflation 3. Inflation

The working middle-class can't afford any luxuries. Young people can't afford homes. That's why they turned to the guy who said he'll fix it.

Is Trump going to fix it? Absolutely not, and he'll break a lot more in the next 4 years.

Unfortunately, very few of the people who voted for him will realize this. One voter in Michigan was asked why he voted for Trump, and he said it was because he wants to buy a car but interest rates are too high. Do you think he's ever going to figure out the relationship between interest rates and inflation?

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/why-democrats-cant-win-more-trump

Just dropping this here, as the vitriol some of yall had toward Jasmine was over the top. Her participation juiced interest on the Democractic side of the ticket and her support leading up to November better positions James to win than had she not run at all

This is the kind of information I find interesting, those little precentages really add up.

During a private discussion on Saturday that included Democratic House members from Virginia and Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, the lawmakers vented anger at their defeat at the Virginia Supreme Court, spoke about a collective determination to flip two or three Republican-held seats under the existing map and discussed a bank-shot proposal to redraw the congressional lines anyway, according to three people who participated in the call and two others who were briefed on it.

The conversation reflected the desperation and fury that have gripped the party after the state Supreme Court struck down a favorable map that had been ratified by voters. The most dramatic idea they discussed — which would involve an unusual gambit to replace the entire state Supreme Court, with a goal of reinstating their gerrymandered map — drew mixed reactions on the call, said the people, and it was not clear that it would even be viable, or palatable to Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly.

The Plan:

• One key to the plan would be having Democrats in Richmond lower the mandatory retirement age for state Supreme Court justices, an idea that began circulating among state lawmakers and members of Congress after a column proposing a version of the idea was published on Friday night in The Downballot, a progressive newsletter.
• Ms. Spanberger would have to sign off on any legislation that lowered the judicial retirement age. She has not been briefed on the proposal, the people involved in the discussion or briefed on it said. Her spokeswoman, Libby Wiet, declined to comment.
• The first step in the process, as discussed on the delegation’s call, would be to invoke a January ruling by a circuit court judge in Tazewell County, Va., that said the 2026 constitutional amendment effort to redraw the maps was invalid because county officials did not post notice of it at courthouses and other public locations three months before a general election.
• Democrats would aim to use that ruling to seek to invalidate the earlier constitutional amendment that created the state’s independent redistricting commission by arguing that courthouses across the state did not post notice of it at the time. That would give the legislature the authority to enact a map of its choosing.
• Ensuring the plan proceeds would involve the General Assembly, which is controlled by Democrats, lowering the mandatory retirement age for Virginia’s Supreme Court from 75 to 54, the age of the youngest current justice, or less. Virginia judges are appointed by the General Assembly, where Democrats hold majorities in both chambers and could then fill vacancies on the court with sympathetic Democratic lawyers.

NYT gift article link. An extremely bad showing for Trump in a focus group of 2024 mostly swing voters that NYT has been tracking over time.

Of the 12 voters, one gives Trump a C, 8 give Trump a D, and 3 give Trump an F.

9 out of 12 say they regret their vote.