Sunday, November 03, 2024

Harris Ad Assures Men Their Vote Is Private Also

A new ad aimed at getting Vice President Kamala Harris elected reminds men that their vote is private and they can vote for Harris. As the ad shows one man contemplating his vote while in the voting booth, the narrator, actor George Clooney, says, "Before you cast your vote in this election, think about how it will impact the people you care about the most. Remember, you can vote any way you want and no one will ever know."

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The ad, paid for by Vote Common Good, a religious nonprofit aimed at urging religious people to vote Democrat, begins with two male friends walking into the voting center together.

"Come on, boys. Let's make America great again," one of the men says to another, referencing former President Donald Trump's campaign slogan.

After the man votes for Harris, his daughter runs up to him and they hug. The man assures his friend that he did his "patriotic duty."

"What happens in the booth stays in the booth," Clooney says at the end of the ad. "Vote Harris/Walz."

These Harris ads reminding voters of both sexes that their choices inside the voting booth are private ones must be in response to data showing that not an insignificant number of voters feel coerced to vote in certain ways they may not personally agree with.

It's funny that anyone would find issue with voter autonomy inside the booth, but that obviously isn't the case in right wing world as they feel couples keeping their choices to themselves are tantamount to violating their marriage vows relating to spousal trust.

Just another example where equality feels like oppression to those who've always lived with and utilized unearned privilege, even within their own relationships.

#1 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-11-03 02:26 PM

If you're a guy, and you're concerned that somebody else might find out about you vote. You are so far down on the feeding chain it doesn't even matter calling you. A beta male would be a gift.

#2 | Posted by homerj at 2024-11-03 02:27 PM

It's there a pool of men worried about being emasculated by voting for Harris?

Sounds like a bunch of losers.

Trump already has their vote.

He's a master of giving losers false hope.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-11-03 02:29 PM

If you're a guy, and you're concerned that somebody else might find out about you vote.

It's there a pool of men worried about being emasculated by voting for Harris? Trump already has their vote.

I think both of you discount the effects of peer pressure, especially for those whose lives and friends promote the same toxic faux white male dominance oozing from Trump himself.

This commercial is geared toward specifically girl dads who otherwise might like what Trump stands for, but who also understand what abortion bans and the withholding of lifesaving reproductive healthcare means in regards to their own daughter's and granddaughter's ability to live their own lives free from control by anyone but themselves.

As I said before, there has to be some empirical data identifying this phenomena or there'd be no reason to create such commercials. This is nothing more than the final attempt to create a permission structure for erstwhile Trump-leaning voters to vote as their conscious tells them to even if their friends and family might do just the opposite.

#4 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-11-03 02:41 PM

I've said it before I'll say it again, I have zero respect for any man who does not fully support a woman's right to reproductive care of her choosing.

#5 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-11-03 02:44 PM

Outcry from Faux News: "A buddy secretly voting for Kamala would be tantamount to him cheating on you!"

---------- Donnie: "Mmmph!" [slurp, gurgle, gulp]

#6 | Posted by censored at 2024-11-03 02:44 PM

genius.

#7 | Posted by ichiro at 2024-11-03 09:02 PM

As I said before, there has to be some empirical data identifying this phenomena or there'd be no reason to create such commercials.

These People Are Hiding Whom They're Actually Voting For From Their Spouses And Family

But most people we spoke to for this story said they're voting their conscience while keeping it a secret - or in some cases, outright lying - just to avoid awkward or tense conversations in mixed political marriages or families.

#8 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-11-03 09:19 PM

There are lots of places in the United States, especially in the deep South and possibly also out west where a professional, like a lawyer, might not feel comfortable letting the fact that he votes for Kamala Harris be common knowledge. In many small towns the pressure to be part of the good old boys social groups the appearance of shared values and ooltical beliefs can make for success or failure.I know people in that situation, we never discuss it but they know that I know they pretty much have to tow a pretty conservative line to be successful where they live. In a different thread one of our conservative posters mentioned this ib a post earlier today; he said you were either a Normie or a Wierdo which does aum up life in a small town in the South. When I was young I tried life in such a place but quickly decided I did not want to live there and noved back to a city.

#9 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-03 09:46 PM

Oh yea

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-11-03 10:57 PM

Definitely... go bitch

#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-11-03 10:59 PM

but quickly decided I did not want to live there and noved back to a city.

#9 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-03 09:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

Where your Wheaties were $13 dollars a box?

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-11-03 11:01 PM

Danni hates inflation

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-11-03 11:04 PM

#10, #11, #12, #13....

#TriggeredTrumper

#14 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2024-11-04 08:35 AM

"...a lawyer, might not feel comfortable letting the fact that he votes for Kamala Harris be common knowledge."

And the feedmill worker has it easier?

No, the lawyer is safer in acknowledging their intention to vote for Harris than a blue collar worker.

and BTW, don't we have folks like you describe post here regularly? strong democratic party members living in "red state ---------"?

Zed
Catdog
almost everyone in Florida

doesn't someone live in rural Alabama

#15 | Posted by eberly at 2024-11-04 08:40 AM

#TriggeredTrumper

Just wait until tomorrow night.

#16 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-11-04 08:56 AM

" Just wait until tomorrow night.

#16 | POSTED BY TONYROMA AT 2024-11-04 08:56 AM | FLAG: "

Sadly it sounds like we won't know the outcome by the end of tomorrow night.

#17 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-11-04 05:26 PM

Sadly it sounds like we won't know the outcome by the end of tomorrow night.

Based on a national 55-42 split of women to men, I'm pretty sure we will. The earliest marker is North Carolina. If Trump loses there, he has no path to 270, the outcome will be decided.

Harris could lose PA, AZ, NV, and GA but still secure 271 electoral votes.

#18 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-11-04 05:51 PM

fwiw, here's the current (and what may amount to the final) RCP Electoral College map, taking into account Toss-ups (i.e., those states whose polling is within the margin of error)...

2024 RCP Electoral College Map
www.realclearpolling.com

...
Harris/Walz - 211
Toss Ups - 108
Trump/Vance - 219
...

#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-04 06:14 PM

Sadly it sounds like we won't know the outcome by the end of tomorrow night.

#17 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

We may not know until after we see if we can survive another Jan 6th.

Thanks to Trumpy and his rabid cultists.

Fortunately for us Trumpy does not control the reins of power this time and will be fighting to overthrow the election from the outside instead of from inside the US government.

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-05 10:41 AM

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