For Agitprop purposes, I’m asking comrades to help aggregate any and all effortpost responses, critiques, or general thoughts that you have seen or written pertaining to yesterday’s U.S. election that you think have standalone value for discussion either online or IRL.

I made a post for that purpose here, and ideally it can be used not only for general discussion, but as a reference for well thought out responses in discussions about the election to save all of us some brainpower.

No shitposts please, as we’d like to highlight some comrades’ actual effort in constructing responses or analysis, but humor is 100% welcome to help make your point!

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[–] REgon@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wait how can they already know Trump won? Didn't it take weeks to count the votes last time?

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Trump is winning by large margins.

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

lol incredible. The pollsters fucked up again

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kamabla is losing worse than Hillary fucking Clinton lol

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where do you go for the results? Google is only throwing up CNN and MSNBC and all those and they honestly suck ass

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

I’m just using NYT. I’m sure there’s much better stuff out there but the interactive map can give you pretty detailed breakdowns. You can compare the margins to past elections.

It looks like she might end up losing the popular vote too

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

IPSOS polling was pretty accurate, saying that the voting share was tied but Trump led on almost all key issues.

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I feel like a liberal rn (I keep opening my mouth to say dumb shit about things I have not investigated properly)

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

A lot of the polls were really bad like that Selzer poll of Iowa, so you're correct on that. But the usually reliable ones like IPSOS got the general idea right. A tie on overall voter share, but with Trump ahead on key issues, suggesting a "hidden Trump vote".

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

suggesting a "hidden Trump vote"

Considering how much they underestimated him in 2016, I'd be surprised if they aren't trying to account for this factor by now. Clearly the math was still wrong lmao