1. People are underestimating the size of Biden's victory for reasons mentioned in this useful thread: lots of votes left to count in blue states & also historic high turnout. Combined, it looks like a higher share of voters supported Biden than supported Reagan in 1984https://twitter.com/jtlevy/status/1324408585590329345 …
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But that’s just the thing—the Latino vote in South Texas and South Florida isn’t particularly leftist on economics. He wasn’t going to win those voters with the social dem platform, but he probably would have lost some of those 100k GA voters who picked him, but not Ossoff.
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Also, in 2012, Obama won a comparable share of the white working class to Biden while running against the ultimate plutocrat/global capitalist. Maybe the problem runs deep here.
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One problem is that pivoting to a progressive agenda takes more than one election. Democrats have spent 30 years campaigning within right wing economic framing, they can’t re-educate voters overnight.
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jeet, who won the vote of voters making under $50k. this is a "you must be this tall to ride" sign for Discourse.
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This argument about Latino votes in general and working class Latino votes is based largely on exit polls which are seen as highly questionable by political scientists and political pros.
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