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What did Democrats do wrong?

What did Democrats do wrong?

  • Didn't fight inflation enough.

    Votes: 12 15.6%

  • Didn't fight illegal immigration enough.

    Votes: 22 28.6%

  • Too much focus on abortion.

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • Too much transgender stuff.

    Votes: 28 36.4%

  • America not ready for Progressive women leader.

    Votes: 26 33.8%

  • Should have kept Joe.

    Votes: 2 2.6%

  • Not enough focus on new jobs.

    Votes: 2 2.6%

  • Nothing, Trump cheated & played dirty!

    Votes: 14 18.2%

  • Didn't stop Gaza War.

    Votes: 8 10.4%

  • I can be Agent M.

    Votes: 6 7.8%
  • Total voters
    77
That's why the strategic petroleum reserve is at its lowest level in the past 40 years. Since it was created only 49 years ago, this says a lot if you've been listening. Biden did place an order today though (after the election) in an effort to add a bit to the depleted reserve. The reserve has been steadily draining since 2022 in an effort to correct his early mistakes on energy production which caused record inflation.
 
Donal said:
He actually did make more land avaiulable for drilling, but the oil companies didn't buy the rights.

It's not a supply issue. At leas tnot on that end. The oil companies are well supplied. they are choosing to keep prices higher than needed.
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Isn't part of the problem because of number of refineries in this country? Is "refineries" the right word?


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Tero said:
No, we make NO shoes. The food was the item I excluded. That is local.
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Not true. For boots, Red Wing, Carolinas, Keen, Danner and Bates are making at least some if not all of their boots in the States. New Balance continues to make a few models (dozen or so) of sneakers in the USA. You can find stuff, it's just a ton harder than it was a little while back.
 
Donal said:
How does that address the price gouging?
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Are you under the mistaken impression that inflation is synonymous with price gouging? Because if you are, you fundamentally misunderstand what inflation even is. And if you're not, you're just moving the goalpost, and your response is irrelevant.
 
ChrisBFRPKY said:
That's why the strategic petroleum reserve is at its lowest level in the past 40 years.
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False. "US Crude Oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Stocks is at a current level of 385.83M, up from 384.64M last week and up from 351.27M one year ago. This is a change of 0.31% from last week and 9.84% from one year ago."
ChrisBFRPKY said:
Since it was created only 49 years ago, this says a lot if you've been listening. Biden did place an order today though (after the election) in an effort to add a bit to the depleted reserve. The reserve has been steadily draining since 2022 in an effort to correct his early mistakes on energy production which caused record inflation.
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And why were the reserves being released?
To lower the cost of gasoline in 2022. Drawdowns are usually done to combat the high cost of gasoline or other factors.

"Beginning in November 2021, President Joe Biden’s administration has used the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to combat rising gas prices. In March of 2022, the administration announced a new release of 180 million barrels of oil into the supply chain, the most in the reserve’s history. As a result, the total amount of oil in the SPR decreased by more than 20% between November 2021 and July 2022."
"A Treasury Department analysis showed releases from the reserve contributed to a 13 to 31 cent per gallon decrease in the price of gas through July."
"A report released by the Treasury Department indicates that the effort did initially impact gas prices."

So you bitch about the high cost of gas then bitch about the reserve level in the SPR.

To no one's surprise (except may you), Trump LIED about his SPR reserve history:

“So after 50 years of being virtually empty, I built up our oil reserves during my administration, and low energy prices, to 100% full. It’s called the Strategic National Reserves, and it hasn’t been full for many decades. In fact, it’s been mostly empty.”

HOWEVER:

"President Trump became the first Republican president in the history of the SPR to see a net decline in the SPR volume during his term."

"According to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), when Trump took office in January 2017, the SPR contained 695 million barrels. When he left office four years later, the SPR contained 638 million barrels. So, the level of the SPR actually declined while President Trump was in office."
 
Stacyhs said:
False. "US Crude Oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Stocks is at a current level of 385.83M, up from 384.64M last week and up from 351.27M one year ago. This is a change of 0.31% from last week and 9.84% from one year ago."

And why were the reserves being released?
To lower the cost of gasoline in 2022. Drawdowns are usually done to combat the high cost of gasoline or other factors.

"Beginning in November 2021, President Joe Biden’s administration has used the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to combat rising gas prices. In March of 2022, the administration announced a new release of 180 million barrels of oil into the supply chain, the most in the reserve’s history. As a result, the total amount of oil in the SPR decreased by more than 20% between November 2021 and July 2022."
"A Treasury Department analysis showed releases from the reserve contributed to a 13 to 31 cent per gallon decrease in the price of gas through July."
"A report released by the Treasury Department indicates that the effort did initially impact gas prices."

So you bitch about the high cost of gas then bitch about the reserve level in the SPR.

To no one's surprise (except may you), Trump LIED about his SPR reserve history:

“So after 50 years of being virtually empty, I built up our oil reserves during my administration, and low energy prices, to 100% full. It’s called the Strategic National Reserves, and it hasn’t been full for many decades. In fact, it’s been mostly empty.”

HOWEVER:

"President Trump became the first Republican president in the history of the SPR to see a net decline in the SPR volume during his term."

"According to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), when Trump took office in January 2017, the SPR contained 695 million barrels. When he left office four years later, the SPR contained 638 million barrels. So, the level of the SPR actually declined while President Trump was in office."
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"The 2022 sales reduced SPR levels to the lowest in about 40 years."

Read it and weep, more.
 
In my opinion, the biggest mistake of the Democrats was not making abortion rights the keystone of their campaign.

The way I see it, there were many issues the democrats would never be able to "win" on. You can point out why inflation and immigration are not major problems (such as how the US actually did a better job of handling inflation than other western countries, and that Trump actually blocked actual immigration reform), but you will never be able to convince the millions of Americans who voted fascist that the Democrats handled those issues properly, because those Americans are low information voters.

But the abortion issue is one where a strong majority of American voters aligned with the Democrats, and we have seen several Democrats successfully use the issue in the midterms. And its an issue for which the Democrats can be seen as completely blameless. (They weren't in power when Drunky McRapeface and the Stepford Wife got into power.)
 
theprestige said:
I suspect that abortions of convenience aren't the slam dunk social issue some people believe they are.
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They aren't. A lot of centrist voters want abortion legal (and in most places it is and will remain legal) but are perfectly happy with restricting it in time. The idea of 9th month abortions is abhorrent to a lot of independents who don't want it banned completely.
 
My choices weren't available in the poll. I won't deny that some sexism played a role, but comparing the popular vote counts to the closest analogue in 2016, it's apparent that it wasn't nearly the most significant factor (in other words not enough to determine the outcome on its own). More was at play. In short, the party and it's candidates focused almost exclusively on identity politics, invoking Godwin's Law heavily, It was weighed down by inflation driven by releasing too much money for too few goods via multiple stimulus checks, and the party made significant structural mishaps by playing ignorant about it's incumbent candidate's viability until it was far too late. The candidate that subsequently replaced Biden also proved to be unviable for plenty of reasons that have nothing to do with her race or gender. They ran a campaign of being "better" by not being their opponent, and not articulating how they would be better than the predecessor. Pretty much the nutshell.
 
Hercules56 said:
"Abortions of convenience". What a dishonest characterization of the issue.
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It's not dishonest at all. 9th month abortions are abortions of convenience. Seriously, there's absolutely no reason other than convenience for a 9th month abortion. Even in the case of medical emergencies, induced delivery or c-section at that point is just as easy as an abortion.

But 9th month abortions is the Democrat's position. They don't accept any restrictions. They explicitly want abortions of convenience.
 
The question itself is loaded because this is assuming the democrats did anything wrong or that there was even something they could do.
I mean, sure, mistakes were made and plenty of stuff could have been handled better but it still isn't the issue that the race itself was "rigged" due to issues that likely democrats had no way of handling.

Just some obvious examples here -
One of the big MAGA voice is that they are being silenced and that they are being persecuted by the left. In another time you might say how the democrats try and defuse that feeling - but when a single election campaign has not one, not two - but three assassination attempts at Trump?
Yeah, good luck with that. Democrats had 0 control over this no matter what.

Then there is that whole thing with war in the middle east. Democrats did not cause or start this. And while I'm sure there are a lot of geniuses that try and say if they did this or that they might have had a better chance in the elections - I'm calling total BS. It doesn't matter what dems would have done on this issue - they would have lost votes no matter what. Any action they took (or didn't take) pissed someone off and votes would have been lost.

It's a losing situation no matter what. They got dealt a terrible hand at a terrible time.

Now it's possible that they could have done somethings better that it wouldn't be such a margin, but they would have lost no matter what.
 
GrandMasterFox said:
The question itself is loaded because this is assuming the democrats did anything wrong or that there was even something they could do.
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She was essentially the incumbant seeking reelection when most people felt that the economy was on the bad track. See 1992. It's the economy, stupid.
 
Trausti said:
She was essentially the incumbant seeking reelection when most people felt that the economy was on the bad track. See 1992. It's the economy, stupid.
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Big ol' heaping helping of Truth, right there. When the economy is bad, people change leadership.
 
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