Now that we have final numbers. It appears that Harris had all the white & black support she needed for an EC victory. But Trump outright flipping Latino men and making huge gains with Latino women seems to have made all the difference.

What do you think?

First image is 2024, second is 2020.

  • hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    First, an explanation isn’t an excuse. It’s a reason. It doesn’t make it okay, it doesn’t place or shift blame, it just correctly points something out.

    In this case, Trump broadly received the same number of votes as he did 4 years ago, while the Democrats got millions fewer.

    There’s no assumption there, it’s just an observation.

    It’s not pushing or assigning blame. Maybe they didn’t vote because they were lazy. Maybe they didn’t vote because they didn’t like Harris. Maybe they didn’t vote because they didn’t like the process by which she became the nominee. Maybe they didn’t vote because they’ve lost faith in the entire system.

    Regardless of reason, and regardless of how any observer decides to interpret it or assign blame, the facts speak for themselves.

    • lorty@lemmy.ml
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      8 hours ago

      Your explanation ignores the root cause of the issue. People stayed home because the Democrats and Kamala failed to motivate them to go.