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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago
[–] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago

Just in: Preacher very popular with choir.

[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 72 points 2 days ago (43 children)

Once again, they are only looking at the people who DID vote... Those people always vote, and clearly the proportion of blue "always voters" is dwindling compared to red "always voters". Yes ignorant voters lean red, but it doesn't matter. Stop pretending like there's a huge swath of "swing" voters. There's not. Trump got basically the same votes this time. This election came down to the 10 million Biden voters who stayed home for Kamala. That's it. All the rest of this is nonsense bullshit propaganda to obscure the truth. Why didn't they come out for Kamala??

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[–] maplebar@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Stupid uninformed people didn't vote."

Oh really?

That and people who couldn't take time off from their three jobs.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 141 points 2 days ago (4 children)

lost the ones more easily duped by soundbites of lies.

"I love the poorly educated!" -Trump, 2/2016

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[–] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 66 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I have spoken to two kinds of voters.

First off, was my dad. He never ever voted in his life. This was his first year of voting and he went Harris. Simply because he knew enough of what she was about and liked her character.

Meanwhile, the other party was my formerly adoptive mother. She voted Trump because "I just don't like the other party". That was her only reason. And that was just simply dishonest and uneducated.

So, it is possible that someone is capable of just even doing the tiniest research can give you an idea of who to vote for.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The ones that get their information from places like Fox, Threads, Facebook, Nextdoor, X, etc.

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