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[–] [email protected] 108 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Instead of a red mirage, we got a blue stayathomeandnotvote. Harris got 10-13M votes less than Biden in 2020, and even Trump seems to be getting less votes than the last time (counting still ongoing). I was told there would be a record turnout in this election.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 days ago (3 children)

How about this: minorities shifted TOWARDS Trump!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Yep. It's truly been an election that's not missing drama. Two assassination attempts, sitting president dropping out with 4 months left, open fascism, couch fucking, non-white female runner for the first time, all polls absolutely incorrect... Just to get an orange shit heap to fuck over Ukraine, Palestine and our climate. Could Igo back to the boring Obama years, please?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

'member when one of the highlights was "these two should settle it with a pokemon battle"?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Again the polls seemed to be OK. I need to have the article ready with the headline "We are a normal polling error away from a landslide victory for either candidate".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Actually, no. If the landslide victory was within the normal polling error, like it was, you would see some polls giving a big margin for Harris, some for Trump and some having them tied. When all polls are indicating a very close race, something is off. Perhaps bad sampling, people refusing to reveal their candidate or some sort of consensus seeking in the polling methodology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I said all along that there's no such thing as an undecided voters jn this election. There are voters who want to not have trump and then everybody else. The everybody else part are all traitors to what this country stands for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Those assignation attempts were cover for when the Heritage Foundariin assassinate the unstable idiot. They'll martyr him.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Shifted, or did the minorities who previously voted for Democrats stay home this time?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's both. Diaper boy did better than ever with black and hispanic voters. Turnout was also lower.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

The super misogynist manosphere influencers Trump went on a big run of interviews with make the big difference here. So many highly toxic GenZ males because of shit bags like that and A LOT of young non-white men listen to those podcasts and watch those videos

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

People are sexist, who knew? The patriarchy is alive and thriving.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I was I could blame the patriarchy but the numbers are consistent for dem votes going back to 2004. The extra people who voted in 2020 didn't show up again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Sure is!.. and deciding to change candidate without a democratic primary was part of finding that out.

Gen-Z men also shifted towards Trump.

So progress is unfortunately not linear, but can slip back to darker times. Which is not great.

Edit: Also, though I think lots of Trump voters vote for him because he's unusual. They see him as a vote against the usual. Against establishment candidates, and against the standard social-political contract. So establishment candidates being disconnected from what voters actually want is a big part of it.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Depressed turnout has always been how Republicans win.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, except this time Democrats suppressed their own turnout

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No, right-wing extremist propaganda pushed by the algorithms of youtube and tiktok suppressed the turnout.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's a big part of it, but not all.

We've seen a global backlash against the party in power, in that context Harris refusing to distance herself from Biden absolutely contributed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I would note that she stopped separating from Biden when she got the Cheney endorsement and swung hard to the right. That's where the campaign momentum died.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Actually, 20 million votes are suspiciously unaccounted for

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People not turning out is not the same as votes "suspiciously missing"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People did turn out though, so many states reported record turnout, yet.. this..

Did people just go to the polls, see the choices and go "Eh.. nevermind" and go home? Like millions of people?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People turned out in most swing states, they didn't in safe states

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd believe that if they all didn't turn red

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

we have numbers...

6,835,903 people voted in pa in 2020 6,950,214 people votes in pa this year, and we're not done counting yet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Source? Or are we down to republican level of accepting losing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or are we down to republican level of accepting losing?

Lemme play devil's advocate and ask if that would really be such a bad thing if we were considering being an unhinged lunatic gets your people elected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah probably it would be a bad thing. Republicans try to mobilize the idiot vote. To get that, you can be unhinged, but you alienate the more reasonable voters, the educated city people that the dems absolutely need.

Although it would be interesting to see two unhinged parties try to fight it out to get the idiot vote. I assume Italian political culture to be something like that, all the smarter Italians I've ever spoken to seem extremely frustrated by their system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Biden won on memes of him eating ice cream, being old, being Dark Brandon, sniffing kids, claiming people aren't black, saying that poor kids are just as smart as white kids, etc.

During a term when Trump memes stopped because they were played out. Obviously the new rule is that the first person to become a meme goes into the White House, or as Trump calls it "The Whites Only House"

If they would have run an ad of Kamela Harris as Skibidi Toilet singing Numa Numa Ney, everyone would have voted for her. But instead they had memes of JD Vance fucking a couch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yess a new conspiry!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's the thing about records: they aren't always positive/in the trajectory you are hoping for

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

If it had been a record low, then sure. But I don't think we broke records in that direction either.