Run a terrible candidate who steadily loses her initial polling lead as the campaign goes on.
Tell the initially well-received VP pick to tone it down on the rhetoric that's making him popular.
Ignore your base and particularly a key voting bloc in an important state on a crucial issue, telling protestors who would otherwise be out knocking on doors for you if you could address their concerns to sit down and shut up.
Loudly signal that the system does not provide a viable way for people to constructively register their dissatisfaction and tell them that they need to just get in line.
Persistently pander to the rabidly fascist supporters of the opponent's party, further alienating your own base in the process.
Watch the opponent's campaign run circles around you on new media.

The Republicans can and likely did cheat, but you can only get away with it when the margins are thin. The Harris campaign did everything in its power to ensure the gap was as fudgeable as possible.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

The Republicans can and likely did cheat

I assume both parties cheat. It was common practice to cheat all the way up to watergate and cheating much more blatantly than what Nixon got framed for. Carter might be the only guy who got in on a somewhat clean ticket, and only because the removed in suits agreed they needed one real election after Nixon to make people chill out. And I only assume that because I haven't heard anybody talk at length about fraud in elections between the 70's and 00's. The US was plenty comfortable messing with elections abroad in that time period though, so I assume there's a comrade somewhere on this site that has an article or two about domestic election fraud as well.

It's more or less taken for given that Bush stole the '00 election, Hillary had the primaries rigged for her. I know Kennedy had the whole Cook county thing. Lyndon B. Johnson had an election fraud scandal early in his career. Why would they have stopped cheating?
Sure Trump cheated. He just cheated better than Kamala.

ps. I believe the past tense of "cheat" should be "chote"

[–] miz@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

chooted

EDIT: I support "chote" but I like the word "chooted" and it needs a good meaning

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Chooted is the past tense of "fart". It's once of them irregulars

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

We will have chooted

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

ps. I believe the past tense of "cheat" should be "chote"

That implies that you pronounce the present tense like "chite"

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

... We do though. "ea" becomes "i" and there's an exhalation after "t" that could just as well be a near-silent "e".

[–] Kopfrkingl@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

ps. I believe the past tense of "cheat" should be "chote"

Never cook again

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

Because I will never surpass this peak?

[–] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

let-em-cook