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/AlleyRhubarb Nov 08 '24

This article doesn’t say young people voted for someone else, it says they stayed home. That’s incredibly difficult to poll why after the fact. During the election, there were many independent and Democrat polls that showed even in Pennsylvania, voters were more favorable towards arms embargoes and other pro-Palestinian efforts than maintaining the status quo. Hispanic voters in particular identified Palestinian concerns of high importance.