278
top 35 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Overall, a majority of white women support Trump over Harris. People need to grapple with the fact that Trump is quite popular across a surprising number of demographics -- for example, he's more popular with Hispanic voters than any other republican president. He's popular enough that he continues to close the national polling gap (Harris leads by less than 1% now in Silver's poll aggregator; Biden won by over 4% and he still narrowly won the electoral college by only ~80,000 votes), and Nate Silver's projections currently have Trump with a roughly 10% (9.9%) higher chance of winning the electoral college.

And Trump continues to gain as Harris slips, which has been happening slowly but steadily for over a month.

Does it concern anyone else that Republican politicians and voters seem to have dramatic, radical, concrete, and material plans for after they win and after they lose? And it seems like democrats have zero plans if they lose other than to say "it's not possible, I clearly called him a fascist on social media many times"? No one I've spoken with that's a dem or any flavor of left has any concrete plans for if Trump wins. And he's the favorite to win right now. Does that seem bad to anyone else or..? No? OK cool.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 20 points 1 day ago

So many "well akchewalllys" in this thread..

Just because you don't like the phrasing, or have other grievances, does not negate the message.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Well actually …. Jk the message is spot on

[-] vividspecter@lemm.ee 66 points 1 day ago

In turn, women need to vote like their rights depend on it. Because you might find in a years time that there is a nationwide abortion ban and there is nowhere left to go.

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

There is a big population of women who are past childbearing age that are voting for Trump. It's fucked up, but just getting women to vote may not work. They need to get young women to vote.

So many elderly women are going to be voting who no longer have skin in the abortion game.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 7 points 21 hours ago

The KKKaren vote

[-] taldennz@lemmy.nz 31 points 1 day ago

And of course they'll stop at abortion right...

[-] Veneroso@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Birth control.

Right to marry.

Right to vote.

It wasn't too long ago that women couldn't have a credit card or a bank account.

Leaving a hospital unaccompanied.....

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Well you see, according to conservatives, women doing any of those things are acting counter for their god-given gender roles. As such, they are transgender, and deserve to have their rights taken away...

Did you really think the focus on trans people is actually ultimately about trans people?

[-] 01011@monero.town 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The last time Trump was elected a significant chunk of the white female electorate sided with him. I’d look there before talking about men, especially Black men who seem to be the preferred scapegoat.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, this gets glossed over a lot, but it was White Women who gave Trump the nod, specifically because the DNC just assumed all white women would be voting for HRC. Meanwhile HRC remains one of the most politically reviled candidates in modern history.

White women benefit from structural racism above all others, with the exception of white MEN.

So who exactly is being lectured here, and why?

[-] 01011@monero.town 8 points 20 hours ago

It's easier to talk down to Black men than to hold white women to account.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Women outnumber men, get them to vote!

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

Get everyone to vote.

Women need to vote in their obvious interest.

Men need to stop daydreaming about living in the Handmaid's Tale and wake up to the realization that women's rights matter to all of us. They owe it to the women in their life to step up to defend them.

The only excuse not to vote in this election is to not have the right to.

And people need to stop whining about being told that it's the most important election every time there's an election. They're being asked to set off a few hours to preserve democracy every 4th year. It's not such a huge thing to ask.

“If we don’t get this election right, your wife, your daughter, your mother, we as women, will become collateral damage to your rage,"

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 4 points 15 hours ago

And watch a ton of women stand in line on election day to vote for Trump.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

Religion is a cancer of the mind.

[-] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Hide yo wife, hide yo kids

[-] don@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago

I remember this meme

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

Collateral damage?

What an odd phrasing. This is not about collateral damage. The Republican Party is running on an anti-woman agenda. Women are actively targeted. There's nothing collateral about it.

[-] 0xD@infosec.pub 3 points 18 hours ago

It is the collateral of political ignorance.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago
[-] Drusas@fedia.io 15 points 1 day ago

An accurate one.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2024
278 points (93.2% liked)

politics

19127 readers
4409 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS