{"id":8787,"date":"2024-11-07T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8787"},"modified":"2024-11-07T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T20:23:32","slug":"understanding-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/understanding-the-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.\u00a0<\/span>Women voted for the Democratic candidate, but by smaller margins<\/h2>\n

2.\u00a0<\/span>White women are still voting for the Republican candidate<\/h2>\n

3.\u00a0<\/span>Trump did better with young women than he did in 2020<\/h2>\n

4.\u00a0<\/span>Harris suffered significant losses among both Latino women and men<\/h2>\n

5.\u00a0<\/span>Black women are the most reliable Democratic voters<\/h2>\n

2024 US elections takeaways: how female voters broke for Harris and Trump | US elections 2024 | The Guardian<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Republicans<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0are on track to win the popular vote in a\u00a0presidential election<\/a>\u00a0for the first time in 20 years, with\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0leading\u00a0Kamala Harris<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0with 72.5m votes against nearly 68m on Wednesday night after\u00a0winning the electoral college<\/a>\u00a0earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

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,\u00a0Joe Biden<\/a><\/strong>. …<\/p>\n

Where specific\u00a0policy proposals were on the ballot<\/a>, \u201cred\u201d US states passed progressive laws<\/strong>\u00a0such as minimum wage protections, while \u201cblue\u201d states voted for conservative measures such as tough-on-crime initiatives. Abortion access measures\u00a0won in seven states<\/a>\u00a0but fell short in three.<\/p>\n

US election briefing: Trump on track to win popular vote as millions of Biden voters desert Harris | US elections 2024 | The Guardian<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here are 10 key takeaways from a historic election:<\/p>\n

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    1.\u00a0<\/span>Racism and misogyny defeat joy and hope<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n
  2. Follow the link for the other nine:\u00a0Democrats suffer a drubbing: 10 key takeaways from Trump\u2019s election win | US elections 2024 | The Guardian<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n
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    1.\u00a0Women voted for the Democratic candidate, but by smaller margins 2.\u00a0White women are still voting for the Republican candidate 3.\u00a0Trump did better with young women than he did in 2020 4.\u00a0Harris suffered significant losses among both Latino women and men 5.\u00a0Black women are the most reliable Democratic voters 2024 US elections takeaways: how female voters … Continue reading Understanding the vote<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8789,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787\/revisions\/8789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}