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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
If you look at the date of the tweet, it was very late in the campaign. I think they realized the Joe Rogan demo was bigger than they thought and were trying to make up for not reaching out earlier to the potheads.
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I doubt it'd have made a difference. Ty's earlier post is best explanation - this was the product of a confluence of numerous issues, desires, and events some of which would seem to contradict or work against each other.
The reason du jour is Harris' voters stayed home. On the math, yeah, 11 million Joe voters didn't vote for her. But that assumes they'd have voted for Joe, or a candidate like him, if offered. If one looks at the polling, however, she was far more popular than Joe. If Joe had stayed in the race, that basket of lost voters might've been 15 million or more.
Also, in 2020 people had nothing better to do than vote, as we'd been in a pandemic. This time around, people weren't stuck in their homes with endless time on their hands.
I am, however, shocked that the bro vote actually materialized. Even R strategists believed that demographic would no-show.
