The polls say otherwise. She was leading after her announcement, when she was still talking about healthcare reform, economic justice, taxing the rich, etc. For about three weeks.

Then she talked to her business rep corpo brother, and shifted gear to espousing pro-corporate policy, defending the wealthy, calling leftists Bernie bros, etc, and fell behind.

I agree that Palestine made little difference, btw. It cost her around half a million votes, but she lost by three times that. That's looking at state by state, too.

She lost because she turned herself into Biden 2, instead of what people wanted her to be, which was Obama (until he became President. He lied very well, then governed well enough that we forgave him for being friends with the corps).

Women won senate races in three of the swing states she lost and a Hispanic man won a fourth. It's hard to imagine an explanation more out of line with actual evidence.

No, she lost because she was black and a woman.

"Kamala Harris ran the perfect campaign, she was just stabbed in the back!"

It's possible that it she was a white man, and absolutely nothing else was different, that she very well might have just barely eeked out a victory. That's still a failure. It should have been a blowout. It was a failure of a campaign, racism and sexism against the candidate by the general public was a component, but the least relevant one.

Case in point: your bullshit comment.

"Oh, it couldn't possibly be her shitty policy positions; it had to have been because of her race and gender!"

Fuck all the way off with your soft bigotry of low expectations.

Yeah, that's not true.

But if it was, then you need to be asking why, in an election they claimed was existential, the Democratic Party anointed a black woman to run as their candidate against Trump.

Because that's the conclusion of the excuse you're making - that the Democrats can only nominate men, or they're choosing to lose.

A THIRD of people, only slightly smaller than the third that voted for Trump, voted for Harris based on the fact that she WASN'T TRUMP. Another third didn't vote because they felt her stance on Israel wasn't enough to offset that she wasn't Trump. I don't feel it had anything to do with her race or gender.

You're in the trap unfortunately

Well, it's pretty obvious that running for the Liz Cheney voter did not work.

Meanwhile 5 minutes later you'll be blaming the Gaza non-voters for her losing without a hint of self-awareness.

I mean, she did support the genocide. Which murdered tens of thousands of Palestinian children. What is your point?

Since you mentioned the name, I did notice quite obviously the disrespect everyone had toward Kamala Harris in the news and online comments simply due what they called her.

Almost everywhere, it was quite common for people to refer to her as Kamala and not Harris.

I suspect it was either due to her being a woman, or due to her being Indian (Kamala sounds a lot more foreign than Harris).

It was always "Kamala vs Trump" never Harris vs Trump or Kamala vs Donald.