Kamala was just that unpopular. I know of Democrats who refused to vote for her. Democrats should try holding an election for their candidate next time.
You’re getting posts taken down on social media because after claims of fraud in the last election the federal government, under Democrat leadership, has strong armed social media compani…
Kamala was just that unpopular. I know of Democrats who refused to vote for her. Democrats should try holding an election for their candidate next time.
You’re getting posts taken down on social media because after claims of fraud in the last election the federal government, under Democrat leadership, has strong armed social media companies to crack down on election related “mis/disinformation” that undermines peoples faith in the electoral process. TikTok is especially sensitive to this, and will bend over backwards for the federal government to try and save face because they are facing a nationwide ban.
And yet in the favorability polls, Trump was under water by 9%, which means 9% of the people who supposedly voted for him didn't like him. Meanwhile, Harris was on the plus side in favorability. So, the available evidence doesn't back up your theory. You obviously haven't spent any time at all reviewing the article because the idea that it could be accounted for by unpopularity is dealt with therein and in other places.
For example, her vote totals in the swing states were equal or greater than Biden's performance in 2020. In addition, there's never been an election where a Dem presidential candidate didn't flip any counties from red to blue. Even in 1984, which was one of the biggest landslides in American history, in which Reagan won every state but Mondale's home state of Minnesota and DC. And yet Mondale still flipped 10 counties from red to blue across the country. Obviously Mondale was a much more unpopular candidate than Harris, the states he won were far fewer and his vote total was far less, and yet Harris didn't flip any red counties blue creating the impossible "Three Color Map".
Plus, there's the "Russian Tail" which is a clear sign of vote flipping, as used by the Kremlin in recent Russian elections.
The polls in their totality showed a neck and neck race with the most likely two outcomes being one candidate or the other taking all the swing states. It was a tossup. Favorability ratings don’t mean much when it comes to predicting electoral outcomes. Kamala was over -15 in favorability until she announced her run. By the election she was -2. Trump after the election went above net 0 from -9. Answering a poll is easy. Getting out and voting requires some effort. Can’t do that on your phone. In other words, who cares, it’s a favorability poll. The actual aggregate state by state polling is the closest we going to get to being able to predict an outcome and that polling was fairly accurate.
As for Kamala not flipping a county, it’s not “ever” but since 1932. You don’t have a large enough sample size to draw any serious inferences from that. Times change. Something that seems unlikely from the small available sample size can in fact happen. Kamala can win more votes in swing states all she wants, but if you don’t win more than the other guy, you still lose. People can change their vote from one election to the other. They can turnout one time and not the other. They can answer a poll and never vote. The results are all that matter.
And I hate to break it to you but the “Russian Tale” is what is called wartime propaganda. Remember the Maine? In case you haven’t noticed there’s a geopolitical spat thats been going on between the Americans and Russians that is dangerously close to all out war. There is a vested interest in spreading anti-Russian narratives to prepare the population for the possibility of total war and to get the population to consent to the cost of war. Nobody is going to look into the supposed “Russian Tale” despite having the most anti-Russian government since the height of the cold war. Why? Because it doesn’t exist. Neither did the Russia collusion hoax that came out of the Clinton campaign. The Russians don’t have some magic monopoly on the technicalities of rigging elections. The fantasies about the Russians controlling US politics are plainly ridiculous. It’s zombie cold war propaganda. They give you an external enemy to hate so you don’t look at the crap they’re pulling domestically.
And yet they did turn out in record numbers. The early voting record for Georgia was broken halfway through the early voting period. How do you break turnout records and end up with 3 million fewer votes? You're saying they turned out for Trump which makes no damn sense at all when he was loonier than ever, people were walking out of his rallies, and his hasn't won a single election since 2016. By all accounts, his popularity was waning, not waxing. On the face of it, there'd at least need to be some explanation for why his popularity supposedly soared enough for him to run the table over all the swing states when his ratings were terrible. You don't get to say the polls were correct when it comes to the nationals and the swings states and wrong when it comes to favorability. You can't have it both ways.
No hate here. You can project onto me all you want, but that doesn't mean a damn thing. I don't hate Russians. And your point that we're close to an all-out war is all the more reason for them to interfere in our elections. Are you so naive to think that they wouldn't prefer Trump to Harris? For certain he'll go easier on them to say the least. In any case, I wasn't even saying that Russia did it so much as saying that the tactics used were the same. In other words, someone was taking notes.
But I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Let's just do a manual hand recount of all the paper ballots in the swing states and found who's right and who's wrong. Perhaps there's multiple potential explanations for all of these anomalies, but the fact that they're there and were extremely rare or not present in other elections makes it worth checking out.
But somehow I suspect you're going to argue against that, aren't you?
You need to listen to and meet some actual Americans who exist outside your narrative bubble. All the things you think people care about they don’t actually care about much. Some of those things have actually garnered sympathy, like the politically motivated lawsuits and prosecutions or getting shot. Other personal failings don’t really matter to voters much, especially when revealed through politically motivated lawsuits. Biden set the standard for Presidential lucidity, and Trump passes that bar. Good genes and quitting drinking can do wonders. If it wasn’t an issue 4 years ago when an already aged Biden barely had to campaign, and wasn’t an issue one year ago when he was clearly too aged, then why is it an issue now?
I live in NYC and come from a blue oasis in a red state. I experienced the local shift away from the Democrats over the last 4 years. Progressive Democrats used to hold huge rallies here not 5 years ago. Their last rallies were a dud. Trump held a big rally in the Bronx and a big rally in MSG (fascist because the American Nazi party also held a really there?). A man self immolated near the courthouse Trump was being examined. This was a city that blared the song “Fuck Donald Trump” on repeat 4 years ago after his defeat, I was here then, too.
The Democrats really fucked up. I mean, we can just start with the fact that Trump was nominated, Kamala wasn’t. The fucking “Democratic” party couldn’t even elect a nominee via the normative post ‘68 processes . It’s still not clear exactly how the decision was made to push Biden out and put Kamala in. The election results represent a big FU to the Democrats, for all their failures and blunders.
That's some nice anecdotal evidence you have there. I have seen many, many people saying they know Republicans that did vote for Harris. I've even seen some counties where not ONE crossover ballot (meaning R down-ballot, Harris for President) was counted...while residents of that county spoke up saying their own ballot should have been a crossover.
There, now we've both presented anecdotal evidence on both sides. It's a draw. Care to engage with the statistical data presented here?
Thats nice, but not enough never Trump Republicans to overcome the uncommitted movement, clearly, as the down ballot split suggests. More Democratic leaning voters did vote it appears, just not for the terrible candidate that was forced upon them. The statistics show more voters are registering as independents and willing to split their tickets than in the past. This appearing across almost every county in every state despite differences in process and procedure is more indicative of a general tendency in the way people voted than mass election fraud.
Of course, I can’t rule out the possibility of fraud now as I couldn’t in 2020. Both parties are capable of playing dirty, and both do every election. I just can’t make that determination from stats alone. The stats are neutral. There would have to be an actual investigation, recounts, etc., but thats not in the interest of the two parties who may not want their dirty tricks to be revealed.
What I see though are claims of fraud and the denial of those claims as being plainly partisan. It’s not lost on people who vehemently denied fraud in 2020 that they look like total hypocrites for claiming it now. They also were fully supportive of the social media crackdown on fraud claims in 2020, but now thats a bad thing when it’s your chosen candidate who may be at the receiving end of potential fraud. Funny the author thinks the removal of fact checking is bad for them, as if the fact checkers would take up their narrative position.
Kamala was just that unpopular. I know of Democrats who refused to vote for her. Democrats should try holding an election for their candidate next time.
You’re getting posts taken down on social media because after claims of fraud in the last election the federal government, under Democrat leadership, has strong armed social media companies to crack down on election related “mis/disinformation” that undermines peoples faith in the electoral process. TikTok is especially sensitive to this, and will bend over backwards for the federal government to try and save face because they are facing a nationwide ban.
And yet in the favorability polls, Trump was under water by 9%, which means 9% of the people who supposedly voted for him didn't like him. Meanwhile, Harris was on the plus side in favorability. So, the available evidence doesn't back up your theory. You obviously haven't spent any time at all reviewing the article because the idea that it could be accounted for by unpopularity is dealt with therein and in other places.
For example, her vote totals in the swing states were equal or greater than Biden's performance in 2020. In addition, there's never been an election where a Dem presidential candidate didn't flip any counties from red to blue. Even in 1984, which was one of the biggest landslides in American history, in which Reagan won every state but Mondale's home state of Minnesota and DC. And yet Mondale still flipped 10 counties from red to blue across the country. Obviously Mondale was a much more unpopular candidate than Harris, the states he won were far fewer and his vote total was far less, and yet Harris didn't flip any red counties blue creating the impossible "Three Color Map".
Plus, there's the "Russian Tail" which is a clear sign of vote flipping, as used by the Kremlin in recent Russian elections.
The polls in their totality showed a neck and neck race with the most likely two outcomes being one candidate or the other taking all the swing states. It was a tossup. Favorability ratings don’t mean much when it comes to predicting electoral outcomes. Kamala was over -15 in favorability until she announced her run. By the election she was -2. Trump after the election went above net 0 from -9. Answering a poll is easy. Getting out and voting requires some effort. Can’t do that on your phone. In other words, who cares, it’s a favorability poll. The actual aggregate state by state polling is the closest we going to get to being able to predict an outcome and that polling was fairly accurate.
As for Kamala not flipping a county, it’s not “ever” but since 1932. You don’t have a large enough sample size to draw any serious inferences from that. Times change. Something that seems unlikely from the small available sample size can in fact happen. Kamala can win more votes in swing states all she wants, but if you don’t win more than the other guy, you still lose. People can change their vote from one election to the other. They can turnout one time and not the other. They can answer a poll and never vote. The results are all that matter.
And I hate to break it to you but the “Russian Tale” is what is called wartime propaganda. Remember the Maine? In case you haven’t noticed there’s a geopolitical spat thats been going on between the Americans and Russians that is dangerously close to all out war. There is a vested interest in spreading anti-Russian narratives to prepare the population for the possibility of total war and to get the population to consent to the cost of war. Nobody is going to look into the supposed “Russian Tale” despite having the most anti-Russian government since the height of the cold war. Why? Because it doesn’t exist. Neither did the Russia collusion hoax that came out of the Clinton campaign. The Russians don’t have some magic monopoly on the technicalities of rigging elections. The fantasies about the Russians controlling US politics are plainly ridiculous. It’s zombie cold war propaganda. They give you an external enemy to hate so you don’t look at the crap they’re pulling domestically.
And yet they did turn out in record numbers. The early voting record for Georgia was broken halfway through the early voting period. How do you break turnout records and end up with 3 million fewer votes? You're saying they turned out for Trump which makes no damn sense at all when he was loonier than ever, people were walking out of his rallies, and his hasn't won a single election since 2016. By all accounts, his popularity was waning, not waxing. On the face of it, there'd at least need to be some explanation for why his popularity supposedly soared enough for him to run the table over all the swing states when his ratings were terrible. You don't get to say the polls were correct when it comes to the nationals and the swings states and wrong when it comes to favorability. You can't have it both ways.
No hate here. You can project onto me all you want, but that doesn't mean a damn thing. I don't hate Russians. And your point that we're close to an all-out war is all the more reason for them to interfere in our elections. Are you so naive to think that they wouldn't prefer Trump to Harris? For certain he'll go easier on them to say the least. In any case, I wasn't even saying that Russia did it so much as saying that the tactics used were the same. In other words, someone was taking notes.
But I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Let's just do a manual hand recount of all the paper ballots in the swing states and found who's right and who's wrong. Perhaps there's multiple potential explanations for all of these anomalies, but the fact that they're there and were extremely rare or not present in other elections makes it worth checking out.
But somehow I suspect you're going to argue against that, aren't you?
You really think that the most popular guy is the one that, after losing the last election:
- tried a televised and violent coup
- got multiple court cases and indictions (i might be using the wrong term here, I'm not a lawyer)
- broke his oath to the constitution
- got convicted of rape
- got outed as Epstein's close friend, pictured with him in multiple times and events, featuring heavily in the flight lists
- had numerous falling events, including a few where he left his people out in the cold night without the GOP transport that took them there
- had several events of mumbling and brainfarting in front of audiences
- had a terrible night in the debate against Kamala ("eating cats and dogs")
- had a whole 40min event where he just decided to dance (or wiggle) to his audience hearing "ave maria" over and over, and also "YMCA" afterwards
- had a blatantly fascist event in New York.
- attacked his own voters (like Puerto Ricans) and told he didn't need more votes (repeatedly)
- got shot by people of his own party
You really think anyone after all that would still have ALL the votes from 2020 and still a bunch more?
Not to mention all his failings BEFORE the 2020 election.
You need to listen to and meet some actual Americans who exist outside your narrative bubble. All the things you think people care about they don’t actually care about much. Some of those things have actually garnered sympathy, like the politically motivated lawsuits and prosecutions or getting shot. Other personal failings don’t really matter to voters much, especially when revealed through politically motivated lawsuits. Biden set the standard for Presidential lucidity, and Trump passes that bar. Good genes and quitting drinking can do wonders. If it wasn’t an issue 4 years ago when an already aged Biden barely had to campaign, and wasn’t an issue one year ago when he was clearly too aged, then why is it an issue now?
I live in NYC and come from a blue oasis in a red state. I experienced the local shift away from the Democrats over the last 4 years. Progressive Democrats used to hold huge rallies here not 5 years ago. Their last rallies were a dud. Trump held a big rally in the Bronx and a big rally in MSG (fascist because the American Nazi party also held a really there?). A man self immolated near the courthouse Trump was being examined. This was a city that blared the song “Fuck Donald Trump” on repeat 4 years ago after his defeat, I was here then, too.
The Democrats really fucked up. I mean, we can just start with the fact that Trump was nominated, Kamala wasn’t. The fucking “Democratic” party couldn’t even elect a nominee via the normative post ‘68 processes . It’s still not clear exactly how the decision was made to push Biden out and put Kamala in. The election results represent a big FU to the Democrats, for all their failures and blunders.
That's some nice anecdotal evidence you have there. I have seen many, many people saying they know Republicans that did vote for Harris. I've even seen some counties where not ONE crossover ballot (meaning R down-ballot, Harris for President) was counted...while residents of that county spoke up saying their own ballot should have been a crossover.
There, now we've both presented anecdotal evidence on both sides. It's a draw. Care to engage with the statistical data presented here?
Thats nice, but not enough never Trump Republicans to overcome the uncommitted movement, clearly, as the down ballot split suggests. More Democratic leaning voters did vote it appears, just not for the terrible candidate that was forced upon them. The statistics show more voters are registering as independents and willing to split their tickets than in the past. This appearing across almost every county in every state despite differences in process and procedure is more indicative of a general tendency in the way people voted than mass election fraud.
Of course, I can’t rule out the possibility of fraud now as I couldn’t in 2020. Both parties are capable of playing dirty, and both do every election. I just can’t make that determination from stats alone. The stats are neutral. There would have to be an actual investigation, recounts, etc., but thats not in the interest of the two parties who may not want their dirty tricks to be revealed.
What I see though are claims of fraud and the denial of those claims as being plainly partisan. It’s not lost on people who vehemently denied fraud in 2020 that they look like total hypocrites for claiming it now. They also were fully supportive of the social media crackdown on fraud claims in 2020, but now thats a bad thing when it’s your chosen candidate who may be at the receiving end of potential fraud. Funny the author thinks the removal of fact checking is bad for them, as if the fact checkers would take up their narrative position.
Try this 2024 election analysis.
https://electiontruthalliance.org/about-us