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      3 hours ago

      It’s hard to tell if allowing Cheney to campaign for her helped, hurt, or had very little impact at all. I suspect the latter, but we’ll never know because we can’t rerun the race.

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          2 hours ago

          In that sense, everything she did “didn’t work.” Centrists will site her progressive policies as the culprit and say those didn’t work, because she didn’t win. The fact is, neither of you know what the but-for cause of her loss was, but you want to believe it was the one that serves your position.

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        8 hours ago

        Having seen it with Gore, Kerry, Obama (post win), Clinton, and now Harris, it’s not a single mistake. The Dems would always prefer to lose to the right than win to the left.

        Biden had COVID, so it’s just outside the norm.

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          8 hours ago

          Right, because there is no proper left in this country, and Democrats are centrists who want to continue the status quo