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| | === It's the econony stupid! By "Iran war," voters meant gas prices after S.o.H. closure. Not its sheer politics=== | | === It's the econony stupid! By "Iran war," voters meant gas prices after S.o.H. closure. Not its sheer politics=== |
| | It's rather about the gas prices as a result of Straight of Hormuz closure [by the Islamic Republic], not about its sheer politics. People vote with their pockets. Asides from Trump explaining so 2 days ago. Here is one example analysis on the right[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbzsv9LkRFA][[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 01:24, November 6, 2026 (EST) | | It's rather about the gas prices as a result of Straight of Hormuz closure [by the Islamic Republic], not about its sheer politics. People vote with their pockets. Asides from Trump explaining so 2 days ago. Here is one example analysis on the right[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbzsv9LkRFA][[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 01:24, November 6, 2026 (EST) |
| | + | {{Quotebox-float|To win back the Trump voters who went [[Democratic]] on Tuesday, the party must do four things: |
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| | + | *End the war in Iran. |
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| | + | *Focus on the cost of living and inflation. |
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| | + | *Put “America First” again, meaning the original version, not the one that comes with aircraft carriers. |
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| | + | *“Change our relationship with Israel.” |
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| | + | The first three are the 2024 campaign platform, returned to sender. The fourth is the one that will set [[Washington]]’s hair on fire. A sitting Republican Vice President just said in public that the party’s relationship with [[Israel]] is a political liability. That is not a sentence Republican vice presidents usually say out loud. |
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| | + | Vance also made a point that should end the usual post-election excuse making. The problem, he argued, was not that Republicans stayed home. It was that '''a large number of 2024 Trump voters showed up and voted for [[Democrat]]s. Those people did not forget to vote. They changed their minds''', and they told the party why. [https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/i/223700800/vance-reads-the-room]}} |
| | + | Not really a surprise; the [[MAGA]] [[coalition]] always has included [[Democrat]]s and [[Independent]]s. [[User:RobSmith|Foghorn Leghorn]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Do normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens?]]</sup> 09:40, November 6, 2026 (EST) |
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| | ===Democrats vow to cut aid to Israel, expand [[Ukraine aid]]=== | | ===Democrats vow to cut aid to Israel, expand [[Ukraine aid]]=== |