• Jesus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Just saying that people knew Biden was a risky candidate, and people worried that swapping out the incumbent might increase the risk.

    People were making their best guesses with the information they had at the time. The only way to know for sure is to have a multiverse Time Machine.

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      4 months ago

      Correct. A repeat of 1968 was not just possible but likely. Thankfully all resources and support were put behind Harris instead of fracturing across multiple candidates. Had the opposite happened it would have been 1968 all over again.

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      4 months ago

      Or they could have listened to what was perhaps the largest outcry from voters of the Dem party, or polls, or Biden himself when he (rarely) spoke in public.

      Which is why I said:

      If they were worried than they weren’t listening to the criticisms of Biden…

      But this:

      People were making their best guesses with the information they had at the time

      Makes it sound like there was no way to tell Biden was a poor candidate, and people who spent months saying he was were just coincidentally right.

      We just disagree man, you think there was no way to tell, I think it was blatantly obvious and everyone should have been able to tell

      It’s not a big deal that we disagree, we don’t have to keep rehashing it