After all those conversations, I think the main reason that Harris and Walz lost this campaign is simple: Trump. Ultimately, he was simply too much of a pull again. Despite the gaffes, despite his views on women, despite his distaste for democracy and despite an insurrection, voters just didn’t care. For reasons that I’m sure will be studied for decades, when he speaks, people listen. When he speaks, people believe him. After all those calls, I can be shocked at this result, but hardly surprised.
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New American Dark Ages
Young people stopped carrying about abortion rights?
By and large, it was the economy. For gen Z voters who care about the economy, they really broke for Donald Trump.
Abortion really dropped as being the most salient issue for younger people. I think that was the most surprising to me.
If you look at the youth vote in 2022 – and this is all young voters, not just men or women – 44% said abortion was the issue they put at their top priority. Whereas this fall, the issue was only 13% [exit polling shows]. That’s a pretty big cratering.
[mjh: I’ve read many think the abortion issue is resolved by the States. Fine if you don’t get pregnant in Florida.]
If you think people will realize their mistake …
George Orwell quote: The party told you to reject the evidence of your…
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. George Orwell
Where Trump gained votes and Harris lost them (detailed analysis)
Another way of looking at the numbers is that for every 78 votes Donald Trump gained nationally compared to 2020, Kamala Harris lost 100.
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Understanding the vote
1. Women voted for the Democratic candidate, but by smaller margins
2. White women are still voting for the Republican candidate
3. Trump did better with young women than he did in 2020
4. Harris suffered significant losses among both Latino women and men
5. Black women are the most reliable Democratic voters
Republicans are on track to win the popular vote in a presidential election for the first time in 20 years, with Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris with 72.5m votes against nearly 68m on Wednesday night after winning the electoral college earlier in the day.
Although the vote count is unfinished, Trump is expected to meet the 74m votes he won in 2020, while Harris is on track to far underperform the 81m votes garnered in 2020 by her predecessor, Joe Biden. …
Where specific policy proposals were on the ballot, “red” US states passed progressive laws such as minimum wage protections, while “blue” states voted for conservative measures such as tough-on-crime initiatives. Abortion access measures won in seven states but fell short in three.
Here are 10 key takeaways from a historic election:
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1. Racism and misogyny defeat joy and hope
- Follow the link for the other nine: Democrats suffer a drubbing: 10 key takeaways from Trump’s election win | US elections 2024 | The Guardian
Low turnout?
Updated figures likely to change again. Hard to believe that in an election that both sides described as existential, that BOTH candidates got fewer votes than in 2020 — 15 million people didn’t vote?
Resist
