It's simple, really. We liked the way things were four years ago
You can't fix stupid.
"beset on all sides, with idiots"
There's going to be a lot of extremely obese leopards around, with all the faces they will be eating.
This is where we were 4 years ago.
Exactly how Hitler got in.
retrospection is a bitch
Possibly their ballots were faked? Could we all get a look see? I just want to make sure my ballot looks exactly as I voted.
Or maybe Latinos are fucking retarded? Pinches huercos jijos de su reputa Bomba Madre. Como cabrones se les biene a votar por la pinche bolsa de miados Trump???? But I digress.
Really surprised the article didn't mention Gaza or genocide.
I'm not. With the exception of the terminally online left or people with familial or cultural ties to Palestine, it's at best a back burner issue. It certainly impacted her vote share in certain areas, but that's not why the whole country turned to the right. She didn't lose NC, GA, NV, and AZ because of Gaza. She lost because of the economy and immigration. Those of us who spend a large portion of our days/weeks glued to these threads forget that we tend to blow certain things far out of proportion compared to how the average American sees it. We think our pet issues are the pet issues of the electorate, and they're simply not, no matter how much moralizing and finger wagging we do.
For the record, I wasn't really surprised either.
The whole country didn't turn to the right. Trump got fewer votes than in 2020. The problem is fhe left didn't turn out. Kamala got 13M fewer votes than Biden. 🤷♂️
Yes, it did. The evidence is widespread. Across multiple sources.
It happened in unexpected demographics and in unexpected regions.
It's important to note that he's at 72.6 million votes, and counting. We can't say he "got" more or fewer votes than in 2020 because they're still tallying ballots. He's getting more every hour. (edit: According to AP, he's gained ~100k votes since I first wrote this comment an hour ago.)
You are citing a shift based on these results. I am saying people didn't turn out for Harris. 🤷♂️ That will clearly cause a shift in the results.
Let me know when Trump matches his 2020 support, which even if he did is still a loss given population growth.
Turnout went up in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and North Carolina, yet Trump flipped or increased the margins in all four. Turnout in PA appears to have dropped only a little, but Trump's 2024 margin is 60% higher than Biden's 2020 margin. Even in swing states it appears the red shift was consistent across all areas and significantly higher than any perceived turnout change. Where we see turnout significantly down is in blue states, which are kinda beside the point. Plus there are over 7 million uncounted votes in California alone.
The whole country turned to the right.
Scapegoat identified. No way it could have been the dems alienating their base with less progressive politics in a failed attempt to pull republicans over to Harris.
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