Harris spent $1.5 billion but had nothing to say. The NYT confuses total votes with shares.

Happy day after Thanksgiving.

Can I just say that here in Brooklyn my family can cook!

And there are no Trumper/MAGAs in the group, as I imagine there are in some families.

This morning the news is all about how much money the Harris campaign pissed away on their version of the Titanic.

$1.5 billion.

And I’m still getting email money appeals.

I wouldn’t fault the campaign for spending so much money if they had something to say.

But from the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to the imaginary crisis on the border to the horseshit claim that there was no economic crisis for the working class, the billions of dollars were simply pissed away.

“There is not a single expenditure in a different spot that would have changed the outcome of the race,” said Bakari Sellers, a close ally of Ms. Harris and a former lawmaker in South Carolina. In fact, Mr. Sellers said, the campaign faced an unusual problem: “We had so much money it was hard to get it out the door.” Quoted the NY Times.

It appears that all the money in the world couldn’t get reliable Democratic voters to ignore their own experience.

It reminds me of the story of the wife of supposedly Grouch Marx who caught him in bed with another woman. The legendary entertainer denied that anything improper was occurring:

Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?

Meanwhile the NY Times continues to try and confuse us with their presentation of the election data.

There is no doubt that a good number of normally reliable Democratic voters switched to Trump last November.

But a far larger number of normally reliable Democrats stayed home, unmoved by the fantastic amount of dollars that the Harris campaign spent on TV ads and celebrities.

In New York City alone, Trump only gained 95,000 votes over 2020.

But Harris was down half a million compared to Biden’s total!

Those numbers were repeated in small towns and big cities across the country.

The NY Times today has a dozen maps and charts with blue and red arrows allegedly showing the voter shift.

But the Times seems to mix shares and hard numbers, percentages and the total votes that each candidate received.

Trump’s were up a little. Harris’ were down a lot.

This matters if we are trying to read what the voters are saying.

The fact is that millions of voters who did not go Trump were still not willing to buy the snake oil that the Democrats were selling.