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Is Kamala Blowing It? (www.currentaffairs.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Her campaign began with huge fanfare. Now she’s slipping in the polls and making seemingly obvious mistakes. What’s going on?

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

She’s said she won’t ban fracking, which means PA is still in play

What?

Support for a total ban keeps waffling and has for years. It literally just flipped from majority ban to majority keep in jist the last two weeks. If polled today it could be either.

But regulation and a halt to expansion is minimally 70%, as high as 90% depending on how it's phrased.

Both trump and Biden deregulated and expanded. Kamala shows no sign of being different.

But my point is, as bad as Clinton was, wanting to ban fracking or not has a negligible effect on Pennsylvania.

Big effect nationally tho, would help elsewhere....

Then there's the whole thing about how fracking needs to be banned which I hope don't need explained.

Like, if the benefit of pissing off the base is negligible and it destroys the local environment and causes more damage than coal....

Why not ban it?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Too much of the PA economy is dependent on fracking. If she supported a ban, she'd lose PA.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

And yet only 0.5% work in fossil fuels....

Although 1.5 million people across Pennsylvania live within half a mile of oil and gas wells, compressors and processors, not all feel as sharply affected by fracking and to win the state’s crucial 19 electoral votes, according to prevailing political thinking, means not threatening an industry that directly employs around 16,000 people, around 0.5 percent of all jobs in the state.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/donald-trump-kamala-harris-pennsylvania-fracking-support-dimock-anger-water-wells-contamination/

Read the article, I think it will change your mind. And they present it better than I can.