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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Ray* Acres is the place for me
Military is the life for me
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside
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*Raytheon has too many syllables.
I haven't thought about that song for decades but the words "Raytheon Acres" made me think of it almost immediately.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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.
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.
Manchin's daughter was RIGHT THERE the WHOLE TIME
Wait for them to go on vacation
Drone strike them
Replace them with party loyalists
my tbought too. Yet another way dems blow every possible advantage, becayse they'd rather lose supporting the status quo than win by being even a hair left of dick cheney
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
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.
Something did come to mind though: More genocide and more bipartisanship with the party she is saying is full of insane fascists
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.
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.
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.
Learning that the democrats simply don't give a shit is what set me on my current path.
Offered nothing except 'not Trump' for the third time in a row
Yeah "vote for us or things will get worse faster" appears to have hit its breaking point as a useful strategy, assuming it ever was one.
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%.
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.
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. 
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.
last time was basically mondale and reagan, where mondale ran to the right of fucking reagan
“Everyone” was predicting a shoe-in in Kopmala’s favor. By everyone I mean all the political modeling, the pundits etc.
I feel like by the eve of the election the main stream opinion was coin toss. 538 certainly was.
the betting markets were against her, which is unfortunately influential in all this shit.
