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My Responses to my own questions about what went wrong with the Democratic Party’s campaign
Yesterday, I posted this article, with a set of questions as to what people think the Democratic Party should do after the disaster of this week’s elections:
Below are my own answers to the questions I raised.
Any response to the answers I offered are welcome.
Q: What HAPPENED to the billion dollars the Harris-Walz campaign claims to have raised? What was it used for? What should it have been used for that it wasn’t used for?
A. I don’t know. At this point, I’m not sure anyone in that campaign or the Democratic Party hierarchy knows, either. A complete audit of where those funds were spent needs to begin immediately.
Q: What HAPPENED with GOTV this year(get out the vote) this year? Clearly, as it appears close to 10 million fewer people may have voted this time- even though it is alleged to be a higher voter turnout this time, and as Trump may end up going from 47% to just over 50% of the vote with the same raw vote total or even possibly less, how did Democrats NOT get the voters they needed to the polls?
It strongly appears that, however well or badly GOTV was run, it failed to do what it was there to do- get likely Democratic voters to the polls, or get the voters the party made a particular effort to target this year- in particular, Republican voters- to turn…
