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In reply to the discussion: Kamala Could Have Won [View all]

usonian

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3. Strategy? How about voter suppression? It was YUUUUUUGE.
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:21 AM
May 2025
Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won. By Greg Palast for the Hartmann Report

https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won.

Hartmann:
https://hartmannreport.com/p/0ef5118a-d23b-4842-8ebc-da9b578f73fc

Trump lost. That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes.

And, if not for the mass purge of voters of color, if not for the mass disqualification of provisional and mail-in ballots, if not for the new mass “vigilante” challenges in swing states, Harris would have gained at least another 3,565,000 votes, topping Trump’s official popular vote tally by 1.2 million.

Stay with me and I’ll give you the means, methods and, most important, the key calculations.

But if you’re expecting a sexy story about Elon Musk messing with vote-counting software from outer space, sorry, you won’t get that here. As in Bush v. Gore in 2000, and in too many other miscarriages of Democracy, this election was determined by good old “vote suppression,” the polite term we use for shafting people of color out of their ballot. We used to call it Jim Crow.


They're not original thinkers. Jim Crow must go.




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Kamala Could Have Won [View all] Passages May 2025 OP
I suppose it's helpful but I'm tired of hearing about how we lost the election Walleye May 2025 #1
I believe it can help and a great deal in the right hands. Passages May 2025 #2
Yes, you're probably right, in the right hands it should help Walleye May 2025 #7
What he did accomplish will be part of the record forever and it was very good...especially Lina Khan's work. Passages May 2025 #9
Strategy? How about voter suppression? It was YUUUUUUGE. usonian May 2025 #3
That is funny Gum Logger May 2025 #12
Seems to me we lost when states disenfranchised voters in red states rurallib May 2025 #4
Believe had she gone to border in military fatigues, a pistol strapped to her leg and a knife in her teeth Silent Type May 2025 #5
Putin/RW propaganda forces are currently campaigning for the next GOP candidate. John1956PA May 2025 #6
Kamala could have and should have won LetMyPeopleVote May 2025 #8
Could have, would have, should have...how long are these questions going to go on? SWBTATTReg May 2025 #10
We must get there, I agree with that. Passages May 2025 #11
But when Raygun took over the government Gum Logger May 2025 #13
I can't understand your post. Can you re-word it? CTyankee May 16 #14
some voters will just have to learn the hard way. CTyankee Jul 10 #18
she did win! samnsara Jun 30 #15
Coulda woulda shoulda... baddie Jun 30 #16
Still thinking she actual did win and wondering why no instant recount back in Nov! Brainfodder Jun 30 #17
in 2016... myohmy2 Jul 12 #19
Post election theorizing. lees1975 Jul 16 #20
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