I wonder if that disconnect is a hazard of not having a primary. Even if Kamala had still been nominated from the get-go, splits in the voting and ratios might have indicated what Dem voters were thinking and provided campaign insight.
Primaries allow many ideas and voices to rally behind one. It helped in 2008, 2016, and 2020. Many canidates started tossing out ideas, the good ones sticked to the person in charge. We never would have gotten Biden to consider legalizing weed and higher wages without it.
And we didn’t get one. She was appointed without the public really getting a say. When Biden was declared the nominee for 2024, I didn’t get my mail in ballot yet in California.
I wonder if that disconnect is a hazard of not having a primary. Even if Kamala had still been nominated from the get-go, splits in the voting and ratios might have indicated what Dem voters were thinking and provided campaign insight.
Primaries allow many ideas and voices to rally behind one. It helped in 2008, 2016, and 2020. Many canidates started tossing out ideas, the good ones sticked to the person in charge. We never would have gotten Biden to consider legalizing weed and higher wages without it.
And we didn’t get one. She was appointed without the public really getting a say. When Biden was declared the nominee for 2024, I didn’t get my mail in ballot yet in California.