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Jenn Frazier's avatar

Thank you for saying it: Most Americans did not want a woman as president. Be it emasculation or female jealousy, in my opinion THAT is what this election was about. And that is why I am having such a difficult time.

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Hobbes's avatar

I voted for Harris. Having said that, I believe that the state of the economy is a legitimate concern for many. My diabetic father has been struggling to afford groceries that are compatible with his condition, and the only policy issue he ever heard Harris talk about was abortion. Harris made the same mistake here that Hillary Clinton made in Pennsylvania way back when. Pennsylvania's coal miners didn't have a clear sense that Clinton understood or cared about their problems. In the same vein, while the restoration of Roe would restore its benefits to women and society as a whole, abortion protections for women don't help my father treat the life threatening illness he lives with. Trump laid out his rationale for tariffs, getting the law of supply and demand exactly backwards as he talked, but that was more than my father ever heard from Harris on the subject. My father is seventy years old. Abortion is going to be a back burner issue for him compared to his more immediate problems. He never got the sense that Harris understood or cared about the issues that affect him most. I am horrified that Trump won, but misogyny isn't entirely to blame here.

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