Monday Morning Quarterbacking and the Democrat’s Blame Game. 
Phuket Island, Thailand, November 9th, 2024.
Salaroche


Whenever a political party loses an election there usually follows a soul-searching effort to determine the reasons and culprits responsible for their loss, be it failed campaign strategies or any misconceived decisions made by the candidates or their campaign managers.

Often, such soul-searching ends up in a blame game where finger-pointing is the task of the day. This time it is the Democrats’ turn to do their Monday Morning Quarterbacking, imagining what it is they could have done better to ensure they won the elections.

This time it is none other than House Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi who is pointing her finger at President Joe Biden for not having dropped out of the race earlier (see here). In her view, Biden’s delay in dropping out is the reason that the Dems didn’t have enough time to stage a mini-primary, which in turn is the reason that Kamala Harris got the nomination in an untested manner.

Pelosi doesn’t say whether there might have been a candidate with better chances than Kamala to win the elections, but such implication wouldn’t be too farfetched. I for one, had initially supported the idea of a mini-primary, even as I knew the time left to do it was very short.

Biden stepped aside of the race on July 21st, and the following day I posted a Commentary on this page stating my preference (See: “Mission ultra-possible - Defeat that corrupt, Fascist, wannabe dictator”, July 22nd, 2024). 

I frankly thought that, if given the right financial support, along with the right advise and a quick, but proper preparation for the national stage, Gavin Newsom, the Governor of the State of California, could have had more than a fair shot at winning, but when the whole Party stood behind Harris and nobody else threw their hat in the ring, I just went along with supporting Harris 100%.

The fact may well be that, even if Newsom might have improved his Party’s appeal to the white-male and white-female cohorts, such improvement would have only lessened the margin of Trump’s victory, but wouldn’t have ensured a Democratic victory.

The final results give me the strong impression that the undecided voters must have been just a non-influential minority and that the Maga people who could have flipped Democrat were basically nonexistent, meaning that the winning numbers were somehow predetermined in advance (NO allusion to fraud or anything of that sort).

For these elections, therefore, it seems to me that the dye was cast several months ago and the campaigns didn't really matter much at all.

Salaroche