A visualization of the razor thin margin of this election.
Of the 244+ million voting-eligible population:
31.5% voted for Trump
30.6% voted for Harris
37.7% did not vote
Popular is not a word that would accurately describe Trump or the MAGA movement.
Of the 244+ million voting-eligible population:
31.5% voted for Trump
30.6% voted for Harris
37.7% did not vote
Popular is not a word that would accurately describe Trump or the MAGA movement.
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Any election should be close to 100% turnout of registered voters.
I’m judging.
That’s the problem - when faced which such a stark choice the American polity went, meh whatever.
They’ll be pissed when they’re starving.
Harris gave them absolutely no reason to vote.
What about stollen conspiracies?
It's an indictment of the structural problems in our odd form of democracy.
30% of people are just useless shitheads no matter what your system is.
I know a few people who only voted or got vaxxed because I would not leave them alone about it.
So many people don't get considered part of The People.
A real progressive candidate could activate a lot more non-voters. But the two parties will destroy anyone who tries.
But chasing Republicans was more important.
Imagine how many more if she had promised to expand the Supreme Court, so they could overturn Citizens United.
Democrats needed (and still do) an HONEST leader with COURAGE.
TL;DR: non-voters don't vote because they - mostly correctly - perceive that no candidate will substantially address their biggest problems
https://bsky.app/profile/baseballmad.bsky.social/post/3lbphqnqbuk2q
the current general composition of the Democratic Party forbids this as they are beholden to the interests of owners, not workers
hence my recs for other strategies in the thread :)
https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-13/did-the-pandemic-affect-real-earnings.htm
here is a link for the historical view
https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/
but my overall point is that activating non-voters with a wholesale change in policy is a more powerful strategy for getting reliable voters than trying to tinker around the margins of the electorate
Their opinion is either "they are both OK, so it doesn't matter" or "they both suck so it doesn't matter" or "I don't care".
That is 69% of the population who are at least OK with Trump winning.
Welcome to Idiocracy IRL.
Freedom includes the freedom to do nothing.
@rachelbitecofer.bsky.social that Ds should concentrate on getting out the vote, rather than chasing the mythical undecided voter.
😔
That's it, that's the whole reason.
Paying more attention to civics education would help.
So would opening our democracy so that there is more choice.
Even the policies they don't like might be more popular than them...
And voting rules didn’t change in CA and got harder in Georgia so I do think a lot of 2020 to 2024 drop was enthusiasm / desire to vote among Dem leaners in safe states like CA and NY
I want to stress that 2024 was the 2nd highest turnout election since Voting Rights Act
Trump only won w/ Republicans. By far. Overwhelmingly white dudes. 😕
https://bsky.app/profile/baseballmad.bsky.social/post/3lbphqnqbuk2q
In Australia one doesn't have to vote, but they're subject to fine if the don't go to a polling place.