“It wasn’t because Biden voters shifted to Trump—but because so many of them stayed home.”

We must not repeat this same mistake again. Remember to always vote in every election and consider volunteering to knock on doors. It can make a difference. There are elections that are decided with just a small number of votes.

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      I think it came down to 2 moments

      Trump getting shot in the head then standing up, raising his fist and yelling “fight!”. I dispise the man and even I thought that was badass.

      Biden at the debate. He was clearly sunsetting in front of our eyes, rambling about golf scores and saying “and by the way” over and over like it was his mantra.

      If Biden had stepped down and endorsed harris from the beginning, idk if trump could have pulled off a win.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      That and dems shit the bed in their campaign like it was an olympic sport and they were aiming for gold.

      Stack on that, a LOT of effort made by billionaires like Musk to subvert people’s attention spans towards political news. It was a concerted effort of bad-faith actors getting paid a living salary in other countries piling on Twitter to share and promote pro-trump propaganda, and so much sensationalized stories and arguments and overblown contention across all media, that most people just stopped watching or caring.

      Exit polling, the only info that really matters, asked voters who they voted for and why, and the overwhelming responses were that people didn’t know who to vote for and just associated Biden and Harris with the administration that was in power when egg prices went up.

      Seriously, eggs played one of the major motivators. And people are so uninformed or uninterested that they couldn’t really tell the differences between candidates. People don’t broadly read or watch news, they get like, an hour of current events from Facebook and Youtube shorts every week because they have to fucking work 7 days a week just to survive. I know like, a dozen people who fit this picture.

      A quarter of the country can’t read. About half are uninterested in politics, and everyone else is too busy trying to stay alive when healthcare costs more than mortgages and bread is $7.50 a loaf.