I haven't disputed your fundamental point? Only if you want to ignore that part of my comment where I did dispute your fundamental point.
However, I will reiterate: If the VP selection is at best minimally impactful on electoral outcomes then it is simply absurd to suggest that there is an implicit bargain whereby a vote for Biden is a vo…
I haven't disputed your fundamental point? Only if you want to ignore that part of my comment where I did dispute your fundamental point.
However, I will reiterate: If the VP selection is at best minimally impactful on electoral outcomes then it is simply absurd to suggest that there is an implicit bargain whereby a vote for Biden is a vote for Harris.
As you do not contest the impactfulness of the VP selection on the electoral outcome, you cannot stand by that point.
As for Truman and Johnson's contribution to the Democratic ticket, Truman was an 11th hour replacement in 1944 and Johnson was a strategic choice in 1960 that JFK was considering dropping in 1964. Neither speaks much to the contribution of the VP selection in securing an electoral win in a Presidential election, and so your examples do more to discredit your thesis that a vote for Biden is a vote for Harris than they do to prove it.
The notion that VP Harris assuming the top spot on the ticket is "inconsistent" is simply a red herring. If Joe Biden had passed away, we would not be having this discussion. Death has a wonderful leveling effect that way. If Biden were likewise incapacitated vis-a-vis the 25th Amendment, the only reason we might be having the "coup" discussion at all would be if there was an intimation of a personal political agenda behind invoking the 25th Amendment.
However, we have far more indication that there is a political agenda behind Harris NOT invoking the 25th Amendment.
As for "grass roots" approval, Kamala Harris still has worse likability numbers than Donald Trump, and more than half the country still has an unfavorable opinion of her, according to the RCP poll aggregates.
Joe Biden, for all his faults, had 14 million primary votes to become the Democratic nominee in 2024. Kamala Harris, for all her strengths, had ZERO primary votes. Yet Biden is out and Kamala Harris is presumably in.
That's political corruption by definition, and it is the sort of political corruption from which the Democrats wanted to move away following the 1968 and 1972 elections.
A return to Tammany Hall is not a good look for the Democratic Party.
I haven't disputed your fundamental point? Only if you want to ignore that part of my comment where I did dispute your fundamental point.
However, I will reiterate: If the VP selection is at best minimally impactful on electoral outcomes then it is simply absurd to suggest that there is an implicit bargain whereby a vote for Biden is a vote for Harris.
As you do not contest the impactfulness of the VP selection on the electoral outcome, you cannot stand by that point.
As for Truman and Johnson's contribution to the Democratic ticket, Truman was an 11th hour replacement in 1944 and Johnson was a strategic choice in 1960 that JFK was considering dropping in 1964. Neither speaks much to the contribution of the VP selection in securing an electoral win in a Presidential election, and so your examples do more to discredit your thesis that a vote for Biden is a vote for Harris than they do to prove it.
The notion that VP Harris assuming the top spot on the ticket is "inconsistent" is simply a red herring. If Joe Biden had passed away, we would not be having this discussion. Death has a wonderful leveling effect that way. If Biden were likewise incapacitated vis-a-vis the 25th Amendment, the only reason we might be having the "coup" discussion at all would be if there was an intimation of a personal political agenda behind invoking the 25th Amendment.
However, we have far more indication that there is a political agenda behind Harris NOT invoking the 25th Amendment.
As for "grass roots" approval, Kamala Harris still has worse likability numbers than Donald Trump, and more than half the country still has an unfavorable opinion of her, according to the RCP poll aggregates.
Joe Biden, for all his faults, had 14 million primary votes to become the Democratic nominee in 2024. Kamala Harris, for all her strengths, had ZERO primary votes. Yet Biden is out and Kamala Harris is presumably in.
That's political corruption by definition, and it is the sort of political corruption from which the Democrats wanted to move away following the 1968 and 1972 elections.
A return to Tammany Hall is not a good look for the Democratic Party.