You know, the one that allowed unlimited spending by rich corporations on American elections? The one that meant progressives would never win again as Amerikkka descsended into corporate fascism?
How did the Kamala Harris campaign blow $1 billion?
The Democrat candidate raised — and spent — far more money than Donald Trump. But backing from celebrities and social media stars seems to have backfired
Oh. Right.
Not for the first time, Trump needed less to win more. In the 2016 campaign, the total Hillary Clinton and Democratic spend was almost double that of Donald Trump and the Republicans.
Unnn Hunh…..
“We spent twice as much, and lost. KEEP DIGGING!!!! We must spend three times as much!”
No matter how much you spend, there’s no making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
To win it would be good to have a better candididate than your opponent – at least not an unelectable one.
You can’t polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter.
I hope Kamala is making sure all the paperwork is correct and in keeping with campaign laws and regulations.
The anti-Trump lawfare was dumb on many levels, not least the possibility of being hoist by ones own petard
Is one allowed to refer to a Tamil Brahmin as a “sow’s ear”? The Essex constabulary would like a word, Julia.
Umm… whisper it quietly, but despite the staggering levels of self aggrandisment and general caziness, Donald Trump has run a modestly successful business for many years and doesn’t seem to have quite gone bust. Could it just possibly be that he understands the concept of “value for money”.
@KJP
The Mythbusters TV show has demonstrated that you can indeed polish a turd. The problem is that no matter how much you spend making it look shiny, at the end of the day it still stinks like a turd.
“We have to vote for the candidate owned by Google, Microsoft and BlackRock, or CORPORATE FASCISM will win!”
Amazing how this didn’t convince the American electorate.
“How did the Kamala Harris campaign blow $1 billion?”
Practice, man, practice….
Simon – lol
The psychology of the Kamala campaign is interesting:
One advert put out by the Harris campaign voiced by Julia Roberts which shows a woman voting for Harris but keeping it from her husband was criticised as patronising and missing the mark.
I watched the ad on YouTube, it features a parody of working class patriotic Americans (she’s wearing denim and a tacky American flag ballcap covered in sequins, he’s wearing a USA hat and a dumb smile), and Julia Roberts says:
“In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose…”
Then our Shero makes eye contact with another woman, they smile and vote for Kamala.
Patronising is missing the mark, this ad was based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how actual human beings think. As it turns out, white American Moms don’t see their husbands as political enemies and they were not yearning for an opportunity to reelect the Regime.
Advertising may be powerful, but it has limitations. If you’ve been using a product for four years and it’s utterly crap, no amount of ad-spend is going to convince you to buy a replacement.
This was magnificent.
“ Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, 78, attacked the newly formed group, “White Dudes for Harris”, during his speech at the annual Al Smith charity dinner in New York.
Trump dismissed the group’s potential influence on the upcoming election which is set for November 5, quipping, “I’m not worried about them at all, because their wives and their wives’ lovers are all voting for me.”
The link shows the dinner where Trump made the comment.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-election-2024/story/us-election-al-smith-charity-dinner-new-york-donald-trump-mocked-white-dudes-for-harris-group-joking-wives-lover-vote-for-him-2619291-2024-10-18
Trump’s whole Al Smith Charity Dinner speech is good fun. Perhaps Kamala should have showed up. Impossible to imagine Biden being on as good form as Trump was, btw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxMYev0c4xs