It didn’t “do her in” so much, it just didn’t help her in any longer-term way. She had a ‘moment’ and it gave her a brief polling bump, but that new support was clearly not solid. I do think she maybe could have turned that bump into something lasting, if something else went right for her at the right time. The busing exchange just didn’t have any legs, because it’s not an ongoing issue that people care about, and no one should have expected her to sustain higher numbers on that basis alone. I think some people thought it was the beginning of a pattern and she’d keep her numbers up by having another ‘hit’ every other week, or something like that. I don’t know if that would’ve worked or not, but she didn’t do that.
IMO the most disappointing candidate ever was John Kerry in 2000. The Republicans slung all that swift boat shit at him and he did little or nothing to refute it, to jump all over it and point out that Bush was a draft dodger, etc. Kind of the SOP for Democrats, unfortunately.
She shouldn’t have waited five months to get back at Tulsi Gabbard. Because in the space of those five months she went from polling the closest to Joe Biden to polling at 2% and by the time she got her comeback in, well it was too late and too desperate.
I also think the Kamala is a cop meme messed the heads of her campaign. Americans like law and order. If she actually distinguished her actual record vs the fiction made to distort it then who knows, she may have avoided the banana skin in the primary of left wing activists heckling and strengthened the case in a general election of taking down criminals. Nobody calls Amy Klobuchar a cop when she too was a prosecutor. It’s clear Kamala was targetted by the left of the party because she was a threat.
You could look at it both way, I suppose. The exchange led to her highest polling but her follow up was lame and ended up putting her in a bad light.
But what you’re saying is far more reasonable, imho. The exchange led to a bump and then she just faded back and never made another move again.
Hahahahaha and… shes outta here. Good job tulsi.
Things like this. She wasn’t just a cop. (ETA: San Francisco District Attorney, to be more precise.) She had some reputation as a “bad cop”. Long before Tulsi got involved, we in California were seeing stories about that, that began coming out when she was running for state AG in 2010 and again when she ran for Senator.
I’m guessing you’ve never been part of the slave labor racket she helped run.
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on the subject.
Busing is less popular than gonorreah.
I would be astonished if more than 25% of America’s population even knows what busing is.
[FWIW](‘We disagree on Black Lives Matter’ actually means that they’re in favor of things like a police officer strangling a man to death during an arrest) in the days that followed:
Jus’ sayin’ 
Seriously though - her play on Biden got her attention but it wasn’t playing to her brand’s strength, and was more using racial justice cynically than actually caring about it, which over the next week or so came through. And she had no plan to follow up on having grabbed the attention.
Apparently trump tweeted: “Too Bad, we will miss you Kamela!” To which she replied :“Don’t worry Mr. President, I will see you at your trial”.
Nice shot there!
That’s part of the appeal she had. She fights and she’s a natural prosecutor. But it’s just not enough to be President.
Because HurricaneDitka is a conservative. Therefore, the tears are sweeter when a liberal candidate fails.
I like Harris. I can actually see her as a VP candidate if Mayor Pete were to get the nomination. She’s got experience, she could help shore up his support among the African American community, and she may appeal to some women voters who may be a little disheartened by the number of old, white men in the race.
Nitpick: Kerry was 2004.
And now a lot of Democrats on social media are freaking out over the fact the 6 candidates who will be at the debate are white. Ummmmm, if we’re actually listening to minority voters, then the nominee should be Joe Biden in a landslide.
If we listen to only minority voters, perhaps. I don’t think Biden wins the nomination, but I think that Harris gets serious consideration as a VP pick
Yea. I bet folks these days just use their own car or Uber… never public transportation.
What?
Yes, I understand that is the narrative. But if you look at her polling, it’s been two bumps and steady decline. Candidates rarely maintain a post debate bump anyways, no need for fancy explanations why this one didn’t hold.