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Both she (and Harris) lost because their votes were not in the right zip codes. Biden got those votes. Biden was not a magically better candidate than either woman. There's only one explanation that makes any sense at all.
Some voters may not even be aware of it. They might not even realize they are giving male candidates the benefit of the doubt, while assuming the worst about female candidates.
Did anyone ever say they couldn't vote for Bill Clinton or GWB because they didn't like the way they laughed?
Okay, so let's get some data behind your Ludacris' Area Codes Theory of Misogynistic Voting caused the loss of the 2016 and 2024 elections then.
You're anecdotal evidence of some guy who said they would never vote for Hilary or that one guy who went and said they didn't like her laugh, the only thing that proves is that America has people that are misogynistic, which of course is true, but isn't proof of your premise that women can't win elections. I can point out people that said they wouldn't vote for her because Harris was black but that doesn't provide enough of a basis that she lost due to racism. Anecdotal stories does not equal causation.
Here's some more supporting evidence that Americans are becoming more open to women in office.
https://www.genderontheballot.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-GOTB-Deck-c4_release.pdf
Some highlights because I'm sure you won't read:
So again data allows that women still have a hurdles but supports that a woman can win the presidency and I'll continue to vote for a qualified progressive women in the primaries to counter your misogynistic vote.
Sigh. Here's my data that proves that zip codes matter:
2020:
2024:
See the difference? It was only a handful of voters in certain states that did it. Why did they change? You can't really tell me there was any meaningful difference between the first election and the second one on a matter of policy.
Dude, you've shown that some counties that voted Biden flipped for Trump.
No one is disputing that.
Now show the evidence, e.g. exit polls, study, some form of empirical evidence that backs your claim that it was hated of women that caused these places to flip to support. You're still right at Charlie Kirk correlation equals causation territory. Again, I saw people say that they hated Harris for her being black and these electoral maps can easily prove my theory that racism was the main cause of why she didn't win via zip codes by your logic.
I can also point out that Dearborn Muslims, a crucial demographic to one of those flipped zip codes you croon about, voted Trump because they felt slighted by Harris and had a large abandon Harris movement and was one outsized factor of why she lost. That same place is also represented by Rashida Tlaib, vagina owner, would you still say that the movement and loss of support is due to hatred of vaginas?
As for your second point, my theory that's also backed up by exit polls, Harris followed the Biden plan and she was deaf, like with the example above, to the concerns of the voters and that was a bigger cause of her losing those state vs her having a labia. The people had four years of Biden, didn't like the economy even though he and his administration did a good job of avoid economic collapse due to Trump COVID stupidity, she wasn't listening to Americans daily economic concerns while she continued to talk about the economy in the abstract and she also walked away from her original plan of going after price gougers which is what people were actually resonating with and conceded that ground to VP couch fucker and his eggs prices. Also, Deerborn again for not fucking listening to your constituents and that not a simple hating clitorises was her downfall.
You offer no proof, no actual supporting data outside of your feels that misogyny was the leading cause of Hilary and Harris' election loss and this is not worth furthering this dead end debate on your feelings.
You are never going to get someone in an exit poll saying "I will never vote for a woman for President". So the exit polls will never tell the story. There will always be other reasons cited that don't tell the whole story. Maybe if the exit polls was in the bar next door, during Happy Hour, and we can get them sufficiently lubricated first, then you might get the true story.
I know it is convenient for me, because it means that I can ignore all data, because it is all flawed. But I still know I'm right.
Okay Charlie.