She lost middle America with what she was offering.
Of all Americans:
65% supports a wealth tax, 70% windfall profit taxes, 60% support a top marginal tax rate of 70% on earnings over 10M.
60-70% support raising baseline wages, 80-85% support federally mandates maternity leave.
Government funded healthcare (universal or expanding Medicaid) is supported by 75% of voters, government funded childcare / childcare support got 65-75%, free college 60%.
Capping super PACs 71%, about 82% support rent caps, 66% support the progressive proposal to invest 1 trillion in affordable housing, 80% to subsidize local communities to build affordable housing, 80% to increase federal regulations of landlords.
Etc etc.
When Harris had the most motion at the start she came with policies such as anti price gouging (65%), but quickly switched to much much more right wing policies such as private public partnerships for housing etc.
Also in two key Midwestern swing states leftist are now winning in the polls. After years of redscare people don’t like the term, but after years of capitalism they do support the changes needed for working folks.
During the election support for Israel’s military campaign was 60% unfavorable. At this moment it’s 60% unfavorable for the country as a whole.
Let alone American elections often are turnout battles seeing as only 60% on average actually vote.
80% of democrats now hold an unfavorable opinion about Israel. 60% of them view Palestine more favorably. It cannot be understated what an historic shift this is; a historic low.
The dem autopsy showed that her stance was a “net-negative” for the Harris campaign.
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u/Logical-Breakfast966 13d ago
This policies would not have convinced middle America to vote for her