I mean she sure did lose dearborn with it. Also a lot of students got brutalized by the police due to pro-Palestinian protests and that didn’t earn her much goodwill.
Someone in those comments claims it amounts to 1% of the entire voting population, and Harris lost the popular vote by 3.5%. I’d still say it’s a minor factor because the lions share of those folks are probably from safe blue states where it doesn’t matter at all
Really? I’ve always heard that those votes lost wouldn’t have been enough to change any state
I mean she sure did lose dearborn with it. Also a lot of students got brutalized by the police due to pro-Palestinian protests and that didn’t earn her much goodwill.
I’m going off memory of posts, but I thought there were polls showing it as a decisive factor in Michigan (and maybe Arizona?)
all I can find so far is this post about how 29% (the largest chunk) of Biden 2020 voters who didn’t vote Harris cited ending the violence in Gaza
(warning: directionless venting that is ultimately me being mad at myself for not contributing improvements to lemmy)
why is lemmy’s search so limited in functionality? you can’t search a date range and the existing “last [amount of time]” function doens’t work
search is bourgeois
Someone in those comments claims it amounts to 1% of the entire voting population, and Harris lost the popular vote by 3.5%. I’d still say it’s a minor factor because the lions share of those folks are probably from safe blue states where it doesn’t matter at all