­

Thursday November 8, 2024

Thursday November, 2024

News

Latest

i
Substackers Analysis of Election
US onAir Network, Scott JoyNovember 7, 2024

The Free Press
Free Press Readers Saw This Coming
We are proud of that fact and owe it to you, as much as to ourselves, to try with all our might to restore a culture where arguing, debating, persuading, disagreeing—as opposed to damning and silencing—are the norm. If we can’t sit next to colleagues who are voting differently, how can we sit next to them at our dining tables, or on a public bus or on a jury?

No, the Problem Isn’t the Voters
The legacy press explains reality away. Matthew Continetti on the right. Freddie deBoer on the left. Marianne Williamson on Democratic elites. Plus: Olivia Reingold, Frannie Block, and more.

Also in this substack post (a must watch), In the video clip below, made in conjunction with Braver Angels, Lissa and Brad of Lancaster County, PA—who attend the same church but vote for different parties—discuss their vote and the importance of finding “common solutions to our big problems.”

Democrats Picked the Wrong Women’s Rights Issue
Madeleine Kearns
Trump won young men by meeting them where they are.

It wasn’t abortion that mobilized voters. It was biological males in women’s sports.

Harris’s lack of clarity or compromise on abortion had a stunning effect: In 2020, Trump had a 45-point lead over Biden among voters who say abortion should be “illegal in most cases.” This year he won them by 85 points.

Meanwhile, the Republicans adopted a pro-woman stance that resonated widely with the electorate: a ban on male transgender athletes participating in female sports. And they pushed a pro-parent policy, too: barring “gender-affirming care” for distressed minors.

Silver Bulletin – Nate Silver
The story of Trump’s win was foretold in New York City
The Democratic Party needs to ask WTF just happened, and the answers may be right there on the 7 train.
To the extent there was anything that resembled actual insight, it was that it was much easier to come up with a list of reasons that Trump would win — inflation, immigration, Joe Biden wanting to be president until he was 86, the illiberal backlash around the world — than to make the same list for Kamala Harris. I tried and could maybe come up with 6 or 7 good points for her, but not 24. So that may have weighed on my “mental model” of the race.

Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson

There is no doubt that a key factor in voters’ swing to Trump is that they associated the inflation of the post-pandemic months with Biden and turned the incumbents out, a phenomenon seen all over the world.

There is also no doubt that both racism and sexism played an important role in Harris’s defeat. But my own conclusion is that both of those things were amplified by the flood of disinformation that has plagued the U.S. for years now

Zeteo – Mehdi Hasan
My Seven Takeaways From Donald Trump’s Shocking Victory
1. Trump is Teflon
2. It Wasn’t the Genocide
3. Kamala Harris Screwed Up
4. The ‘Vibecession’ Never Ended
5. Get Ready for President Vance
6. Fascism Is Coming
7. Solidarity Matters

Slow Boring – Matthew Yglesias
Breaking down the election results
Let’s start with geography. Urban counties showed a bigger swing toward Trump than suburban and exurban counties, smaller metros, and rural areas. Of course, Harris did best — as did Biden four years earlier — in urban counties, but the 10-point swing toward Trump in urban counties was larger than swings in other places.

The Preamble – Sharon McMahon
The Words of Victory and Defeat
Trump ended his early morning Wednesday speech by asking “every citizen all across our land to join me in this noble and righteous endeavor. That’s what it is. It’s time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us. It’s time to unite, and we’re gonna try. We’re gonna try. We have to try. And it’s gonna happen. Success will bring us together. I’ve seen that. I’ve seen that. I saw that in the first term, when we became more and more successful, people started coming together. Success is going to bring us together and we are going to start by all putting America first.”

The Message Box – Dan Pfeiffer
Some Initial Thoughts on a Brutal Defeat
Trump can no longer be dismissed as an aberration
1. We are Witnessing a Political Realignment

Public Notice – Aaron Rupar
The global anti-incumbent backlash doomed Kamala Harris
Tragically, the beneficiary happened to be Donald Trump.
1. Jill Stein didn’t cost Dems the election. Neither did Tim Walz.
2. Covid, inflation, and throwing the bums out
3. Repeating an ugly history
4.Not a mandate

So What Chris Cillizza
7 reasons why Kamala Harris lost1. It’s the economy, stupid
2. Joe Biden is very unpopular…
3. …And Harris didn’t get away from him fast or far enough
4. Harris was a mediocre candidate
5. Democracy and Fascism
6. Latinos (and Latino men in particular)
7. The “Bro Vote

 

 

Control of House still in question as crucial races remain too close to call
PBS NewsHourNovember 7, 2024 (05:00)

Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate, but control of the U.S. House is still in question as crucial races remain too close to call. Lisa Desjardins breaks down the numbers.

PBS News Hour full episode, Nov. 6, 2024
PBS NewsHour, November 7, 2024 – 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm (ET)
i
Polls 11/7/2024
Smerconish.comNovember 7, 2024

Today’s Poll

Will America’s first female president be a Democrat or Republican?
Democrat
Republican

November 6, 2024 Poll Results

Best election map coverage: Bill Hemmer, John King, or Steve Kornacki?
51.41% – John King
36.67% – Steve Kornacki
11.92% – Bill Hemmer

Francis Fukuyama on Trump 47
Yascha Mounk, Yascha MounkNovember 6, 2024

Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist, author, and the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Among Fukuyama’s notable works are The End of History and the Last Man and The Origins of Political Order. His latest book is Liberalism and Its Discontents. He is also the author of the “Frankly Fukuyama” column, carried forward from American Purpose, at Persuasion.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama discuss how Trump’s 2024 victory repudiates the racial grievance theory of 2016; what a second Trump administration will mean for the rule of law at home and abroad; and the lessons the Democratic Party must learn from its defeat.

The 2024 Democratic disaster actually started on March 14, 2020
So What, Chris Cillizza, Chris Cillizza

Identity politics. Wokeness. And what’s next.

March 14, 2020 – the day that set us on a course to where we are today.

When Joe Biden made the transparently political promise in a Sunday evening debate with Bernie Sanders that he would choose a woman vice presidential nominee, it was a tactical gambit steeped in identity politics. With this transactional appeal to the progressive left, Biden traded his responsibility to choose the most qualified potential heir for, instead, a smoother path to the nomination that was likely his before the promise was even made.

This is not to say that there are no qualified women who could assume the presidency. But when it became clear that Kamala Harris could check two boxes (gender and person of color) rather than one, she became an irresistible choice.

Discuss

OnAir membership is required. The lead Moderator for the discussions is US onAir Curator. We encourage civil, honest, and safe discourse. For more information on commenting and giving feedback, see our Comment Guidelines.

Skip to toolbar