Ryan Grim Jan 15, 2025
“From 2020 to 2024, Democrats saw a staggering dropoff in support at the presidential level, with some 19 million people who voted for Joe Biden staying home (or not mailing in their ballots) in 2024. Now, a new survey conducted by YouGov suggests Biden’s support for Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza played a surprisingly large role in the choice of those previous Biden supporters not to vote.”
The article shows relative interest for the queried time period. For all they know, a week before the election one person searched for it and on election day 10 people did. The graph as is has no significance at all.
Yet she lost. We lost. It’s not insignificant. If there was a non-zero number of people who were unaware that Biden was out, our side failed.
He should have kept his promise to be a one term president. Hubris and bad advice from the inside failed us. Stop making excuses for a failed attempt.
Let’s properly fix this. We’re destined to lose again if we do not.
What if you just admitted that you were wrong about the significance of that search query instead of pivoting into something else