Attention to all: Harris lost in 2024 for the same reason McGovern lost in 1972 [View all]

"Don't change horses in the middle of a stream"

In the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign season, President Biden didn't do well. We all remember that. The same thing happened when President Obama debated Mitt Romney the first time; the second debate went much better and when the third debate talked about foreign policy President Obama absolutely spanked Romney.

What did we do to President Biden? The same thing we did to Thomas Eagleton when he ran as George McGovern's vice president. When it came out that Senator Eagleton had been hospitalized three times for depression, McGovern bowed to pressure to replace him on the ticket. The November result was devastating to the Democratic Party: McGovern carried only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. Not even his home state of South Dakota broke for him. In 2024 we didn't get stomped quite that bad but it doesn't matter: we still got a guy who makes the late Nigerian strongman Sani Abacha look honest.