Democrats suffered a 10 point drop among Latino women, while failing to move the needle among non-college educated women at all, who again went for Trump 63-35, preliminary data suggests.
I’m pretty sure this is because people pay more attention to Facebook and TikTok than actual fact checked sources. It’s the secret sauce of Republicans.
It’s more the case that the Democrats ran a right wing campaign and didn’t convince or inspire thier own supporters to vote for them. Kinda important when voting is voluntary.
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I agree that there’s more than one reason but I’m not sure we’re on the same page about the rest.
If people failed to be motivated to go and vote for a presidential candidate, in an election where voting is voluntary, I think it stands to reason that they wouldn’t bother going to vote for anything else on the ballot. Maybe I am ignorant about how these ballot initiatives work. Don’t people vote on them at the same time as the presidential election?
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It’s only short sighted if people are educated and motivated and chose not to go and vote regardless. But I don’t think that’s what happened. A key part of educating people about progressive causes and initiatives is running progressive campaigns and motivating people to get involved in those campaigns or to support them. If competing major parties run on right wing platforms whether it be in the US or Australia or anywhere where parliamentary politics is dominated by a parliamentary duopoly then it should come as no surprise that folks who are not inspired by right wing politics don’t get involved in anything and don’t get educated or informed about other progressive causes etc.
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I was just listening to Pivot yesterday, they were saying of the top 10 news reaction podcasts in the US, 8 of them were republican aligned. Only 2 were blue leaning, and they were like position 6 and 10 and hosted by the same host! Dems have relied on traditional media, and it aint workin.
