r/JewsOfConscience • u/richards1052 Jewish Anti-Zionist • Nov 08 '24

Opinion Harris's refusal to condemn Gaza genocide enraged young voters, who sat on their hands and cost her the election

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/opinion/democrats-israel-gaza-war.html
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u/BeardedDragon1917 Nov 08 '24

Can’t get past the paywall. Is there any statistical evidence that this is the case in the article?

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u/Arestothenes Non-Jewish Ally Nov 08 '24

Eh, if Harris had gotten all the Jill Stein and PAL voters, she still would have lost. Those two groups didn’t even crack a million.

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u/BodhisattvaBob Non-denominational Nov 08 '24 edited Nov 10 '24

I doubt those respective weights are being accurately quantified.

How do you quantify the number of people who didn't show up because of the Gaza genocide, or the number of people who showed up and wrote "no votes for genocide" or "free Palestine"? Or the numbers of trump votes that werent votes for trump but antigenocide votes against harris?

I got an exit poll texted to my phone. It was useless. Q1, did you vote? Yes. Q2, harris or trump? Had to stop. I didnt vote for either and there was no way to skip the q.