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Yeah, this one was wild. A bunch of our ballot measures went badly, including the heavier sentencing for drugs one getting overwhelming support, even among Democrats. The minimum wage increase also get rejected.
This was apparently the election where people decided to be their worst selves.
And vote against their own interests, like prop 33 (rent control).
Interesting to watch the numbers change as ballots continue to be counted. There's still a huge amount of uncounted mail-in ballots.
https://apps.npr.org/2024-election-results/california.html?section=I
A lot of liberals and leftists sat out the election in comparison to conservatives.
Have the numbers for that come in yet?
They are still counting ballots. It looks like Trump will have the similar number of votes he had in 2020. In contrast, Harris will have over 10 million, or about 13%, fewer votes.
That is depressing.
It didn't help that democrats had a hard-right pivot by laundering the racist "border crisis" narrative and didn't propose any progressive alternative narratives to anything else.
That or the many other demoralizing speeches. We did not need to hear Clinton talk about human shields.
Whoever sent Clinton to Dearborn should be sent into the smoking wastes never to return