I mean jesus christ there was a slight dip in turnout for the MAGA people but 15 million dropped off the face of the planet for the Dems from 2020. That’s gotta be fucking historic. I do hope this will be a radicalising moment for a lot of well-intentioned liberals.

They fumbled 4 states that Biden flipped, and Trump came pretty fucking close to flipping NY. If this doesn’t awaken people to the political dead end that is the Democratic party I don’t know what will.

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    Virginia also almost flipped for Trump. Harris Won by like 52-47 when the polls had her 10 points ahead. Shows you what the Cheneys accomplished in Ratheon Acres.

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    supposedly the drop in democratic voters was because everyone in 2020 did mail in ballots because of the pandemic, and that easy method of voting was not available as widely in 2024.

    which means democrats fucked up by not passing a law making mail in ballots universal.

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      The fact that Biden and the dems couldn’t get voter reform passed is honestly pathetic. I know Sinema was doing… her thing. But you can’t tell me the political parties don’t get real dirty (like threatening the lives of family members or something) when they really need someone to fall in line.

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      You got me curious so I went looking for numbers and I think you’re right.

      2020

      Total Early Votes: 101,453,111 • In-Person Votes: 35,811,062 • Mail Ballots Returned: 65,642,049 • Mail Ballots Outstanding: 26,576,729 Voters have requested a total of 92,218,778 ballots in the reporting states.

      2024

      68,235,905 mail-in and early in-person votes requested nationally

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    You also can’t just be like “Nothing comes to mind” when asked what you’ll be doing differently than your historically unpopular predecessor.

    Ettingermentum put it well on Hasan’s stream, the Dems lost because they insisted on doing the politics they want to do while consistently telling the electorate to go fuck themselves.

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      Something did come to mind though: More genocide and more bipartisanship with the party she is saying is full of insane fascists

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        They came so close to triggering a stochastic assassination of the Great Satan and backed out at the last moment.

        And even that, is so unsurprisingly liberal of them.

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    I do hope this will be a radicalising moment for a lot of well-intentioned liberals.

    They’re getting radicalized alright, just not in the direction you would hope for.

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      They either are going into a) full-on doomerism, this country sucks, will never elect a woman, is fully racist, etc. Which does make sense.
      Or b) they’re getting mad at the Dems, which is my preferred outcome so glad to see it happening all over the place.
      Or c) they’re getting mad at minorities, including Latinos and Arabs. Which sucks but is not unexpected either in this fascist af country.

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    Trump’s probably going to get 312 electoral votes when it’s official, compared to 304 in 2016. He won the popular vote by a 4.45% and a republican hasn’t won the popular vote by that much since 1988. People do not like Donald Trump. I bet he’ll enter office with an approval rating below 50%.

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    Course-correcting on a few key issues might have been enough to net the couple hundred thousand votes necessary to eke out an EC victory, but instead she told potential supporters to shut up (“I’m speaking!”) while pursuing endorsements from Liz and Dick fucking Cheney. Hoe-lee shit.

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    I’ve realized that I was the most engaged with the Democratic party when there was a faction that platformed raising the minimum wage, implementing universal healthcare, and taking measures to make housing affordable & create a federal jobs guarantee. Those stances are non-existent now, and the party truly has nothing to offer other than not being the Republicans. So what does Kamala do? Try to remake the party’s image as a friendly space for Republicans who think Trump is a little too nasty. I have no interest in voting for a Diet Republican Party, and obviously millions of other people feel the same. If people want substantive change (as much as is possible via liberal electoralism), and all you’re offering is, “We’re the same as the other party, but not as loud about our disdain for minorities, the poor, and the women & children of Palestine!”, they’re just going to stay home. Awesome strategy. joker-amerikkklap

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    Now begins the good times for the democrat party where they can rake in donations by pointing at how bad the orange man is without having to actually govern and make people mad at them.

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    15 million dropped off the face of the planet for the Dems from 2020. That’s gotta be fucking historic

    It’s less than the percentage drop for the democrats after LBJ won the election in 1964 - on a popular vote that beat every democrat for the next ~30 years until Clinton (Clinton got 4 percent more votes than LBJ) - I think it’s more that support for Biden was unusually high in 2020 compared to how democrats usually go (Roosevelt, LBJ and I think Carter maybe are exceptions)

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      For added context, the LBJ to Humphrey dropoff came off the back of the Civil Rights Act, which permanently lost the democrats the South. So Biden to Harris is almost as big of a drop in support as the passing of the Civil Rights Act, except the Dems haven’t even fucking done anything this time.

      Also LMAO that the largest drop in support for the dems was the one time they did something good post 1945. Truly a satanic country y’all have there.

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        I thought the civil rights act was passed before the election where LBJ had the highest margin for a hundred or two hundred years?

        I haven’t read much about the post 64 period tbh

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          Might actually be true, given that the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 in july, and LBJ went on to win a massive landslide victory over Goldwater in 1964’s november elections. The sheer margins that LBJ won with might also be why the republicans then went on to cater massively to the South to pry them away from the Democrats, since Southern democrats apparently make hating black people their highest political priority.