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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: Priorities
Date: 10/28/24 6:15 PM
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Not trying to be difficult, but I'm apparently not seeing what you're not seeing.

Yeah, I guess I'm just not "feeling" it, to use the vibey language from up the thread. I know that's what her ads hammer on. But I don't think she sells it in person. She sells her interest in protecting abortion rights, but I absolutely do not get that when she talks about economic matters.

It's certainly part of her campaign platform, and it's something she's running on, and it's something that she (or her campaign) has made the deliberate choice to foreground. But in her actual appearances, she's not at all effective (to me at least) in communicating that "middle class tax cut" is one of the major things that motivates her to be President. And "economy of opportunity" is so vague and expansive that it's not all that much better than saying that one wants to run for President because you want "to do a really good job" - again, if everything's a priority then nothing is.

Again, this is part of the handicap of having to run for President with only three months. Part of establishing something as your signature policy or your brand or your priority is repetition. If you spend years hammering home your Medicare 4 All plan, people are going to sense your commitment to it. But I also think that Harris isn't doing a great job in communicating that this is something that's a personal priority for her, if indeed it is.

But maybe I'm just not seeing it - again, I only watch Harris herself, and don't see a lot of ads. Maybe it communicates better in the ads.
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