Chuck Darwin on Nostr: Harris performed best — that is, underperformed least — in the battleground ...
Harris performed best
— that is, underperformed least
— in the battleground states.
In the places where her campaign flooded the airwaves with her messaging, put her on TV shows and radio stations and in local newspapers, scattered driveways with informational flyers, positioned her beside local celebrities, she did better than in most uncompetitive states, red and blue, that saw no campaigning at all.
In other words:
In the states where she set up a temporary but pervasive media apparatus, she negated some of the nationwide drag.
That speaks to the reality that most of the country is awash in right-wing propaganda all the time.
For the olds, it’s Fox News, conservative radio and Sinclair-owned local news;
for the youths, it’s the right-wing manosphere podcasts and streams that Trump so assiduously courted all campaign long
(plus soothing TikToks promoting retrograde gender roles, evangelical values and distrust of government regulation — think the trad wives and crunchy so-far-left-they’ve-looped-around-to-the-right content — aimed specifically at women).
It helps explain Biden’s prodigious unpopularity,
despite passing a ton of legislation that not only polls well, but has meaningfully improved people’s lives.
It helps elucidate the consistent claims that people don’t know what Harris stood for,
before and after she released her policy proposals.
It’s a playing field that Republicans not only dominate;
Democrats don’t even compete.
They still depend heavily on traditional media sources that simply don’t operate the same way these right-wing PR arms do.
And we know that these forms of media are powerful; they reach tons of people, and are seen as useful enough pawns that Russia has invested in some of them.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/democrats-need-to-compete-in-the-new-media-landscape-or-keep-paying-the-price
— that is, underperformed least
— in the battleground states.
In the places where her campaign flooded the airwaves with her messaging, put her on TV shows and radio stations and in local newspapers, scattered driveways with informational flyers, positioned her beside local celebrities, she did better than in most uncompetitive states, red and blue, that saw no campaigning at all.
In other words:
In the states where she set up a temporary but pervasive media apparatus, she negated some of the nationwide drag.
That speaks to the reality that most of the country is awash in right-wing propaganda all the time.
For the olds, it’s Fox News, conservative radio and Sinclair-owned local news;
for the youths, it’s the right-wing manosphere podcasts and streams that Trump so assiduously courted all campaign long
(plus soothing TikToks promoting retrograde gender roles, evangelical values and distrust of government regulation — think the trad wives and crunchy so-far-left-they’ve-looped-around-to-the-right content — aimed specifically at women).
It helps explain Biden’s prodigious unpopularity,
despite passing a ton of legislation that not only polls well, but has meaningfully improved people’s lives.
It helps elucidate the consistent claims that people don’t know what Harris stood for,
before and after she released her policy proposals.
It’s a playing field that Republicans not only dominate;
Democrats don’t even compete.
They still depend heavily on traditional media sources that simply don’t operate the same way these right-wing PR arms do.
And we know that these forms of media are powerful; they reach tons of people, and are seen as useful enough pawns that Russia has invested in some of them.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/democrats-need-to-compete-in-the-new-media-landscape-or-keep-paying-the-price