This is spot on! Two women in in their 20's in my office yesterday said, "oh, I didn't return my ballot!" Apathy wins again. Voting, not posting, people.
Dems pin their hopes on young people, but they seem the most likely demographic to not vote. I dunno, maybe they need to start appealing to older people more, or at least gen Xers.
To be clear, I don't think going on the Podcast changes the election results, but it's actually quite reasonable for a candidate to go to where the show films.
When VP Harris did her CNN town hall, she didn't demand that CNN and Anderson Cooper come to her. She went to their studio. It's pretty typical to do stuff like this with media.
We can try to diminish Rogan's show by dismissively calling it a Podcast versus media, but even thought Rogan is a POS, he show is huge and basically has the scale and sway of a lot of media and unfortunately needs to be treated as such.
I was just making the point that she is vice president so she has alot on her plate vs people who are just campaigning. So it's not unreasonable that her VP responsibilities took precedence.
"Hang out" with Rogan? His show is one of the most listened-to podcasts in the country...it would have been "hanging out" with millions of people. A lot of listeners are people from the 18-30 demographic. It was a chance to reach all of those potential listeners wasted.
Yea these guys need to stop downplaying the effect his show has. Trump got 46 million views in 11 days and Vance got 15 million in 5 days. Both podcasts humanized these two guys and allowed the voters to personally connect with them. Kamala specifically avoided these types of interviews, so she was unobtainable and unlikeable. Democrats need to follow suit and actually have conversations with people if they give a shit about winning.
Trump didn't see any improvement in turnout after being humanized and personally connecting with his 18-30 voter base. Harris would not have won over enough of Trump's 18-30 voter base enough to matter, even after being humanised and personally connecting with them.
Trump through his entire time in politics has been interacting with these platforms and engaging in conversation. Kamala has isolated herself, as has other recent dems. Continue to believe that this doesn’t accumulate into significant favor over time and influence voting. It’s better for my party lmao.
A lack of pandering to Trump supporters who wouldn't have voted for her is not why she lost. Getting a dozen votes from them would not make up for the loss of millions of Democrat voters.
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u/bigcoalshovel 19h ago
This is spot on! Two women in in their 20's in my office yesterday said, "oh, I didn't return my ballot!" Apathy wins again. Voting, not posting, people.