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    Quote Originally Posted by Gwynplaine View Post
    Frequently this is fairly true, but in this election I think the stark contrast was sharp enough to motivate the high numbers we're seeing. An old standard politician rich white guy who's kind of cringey sometimes, versus an absolutely unpredictable megalomaniac who praises dictators and disdains protestors. That's not exactly Clinton vs. Dole.
    It wasnt just blue votes that were up though.

    Trump got over 9.3 million more votes compared to 2016

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    It was more of an in general statement, than this particular election. But again still, even with stark contrast, it wasn't enough. Still a hundred million declined to vote?

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    Mandatory voting is the only way.

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    Maybe if verifying that you voted unlocks an extra bonus free Post Malone skin in Fortnite that would help.

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    Some kind of incentive would work, unfortunately it wouldn't work really. You'd just get people coming in and picking whoever is the first option.

    Something like $50 home heating credit, or a tax cut, free gas, something that makes everyone go yeah I want that. But not be good enough that people just pick option A to get said thing.

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    or maybe fuck em if you can't be bothered to vote fuck off

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    Yeah... and then we get don fucking jr in 2024... hard pass. Whatever it takes to get people to vote against that, I'll sign on for.

    Their apathy is our punishment, so, we really need to fix that.

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    What makes you think they'd automatically vote blue especially if this current election wasn't enough to motivate them?

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    WaPo has called Arizona for Biden

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    o wait.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krandor View Post
    What makes you think they'd automatically vote blue especially if this current election wasn't enough to motivate them?
    If we actually counted every single voter in the entire country it should skew pretty hard blue. and get rid of the electoral college...

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    Quote Originally Posted by NynJa View Post
    It wasnt just blue votes that were up though.

    Trump got over 9.3 million more votes compared to 2016
    Yeah it sort of disproves Bernie's thesis that activating disenfranchised voters leads to a blue tsunami. Seems to be a lot of disenfranchised on the right as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gredival View Post
    Seems to be a lot of disenfranchised on the right as well.
    That booming stock market and those trickle down economics will be helping all these people live marvelous lives any moment now

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaspinne View Post
    That booming stock market and those trickle down economics will be helping all these people live marvelous lives any moment now
    I didn't say it made sense.

    If people understood and voted their interests, the GOP wouldn't exist.

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    Wasn't meant to be directed to you, just moreso in relation to that people who are dumb tend to vote republican convo that was a page or two ago

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    The results in Ohio are intensely disconcerting. That kind of point differential says that Ohio is red for the next 4-5 election cycles. Florida is troubling but not so much, a more exciting Democrat + less polarizing Republican could keep it purple and put it in play any given election. But that being said, anyone looking to win without Ohio or Florida would need some approximation of Biden's map, which only Kennedy has ever done before.

    If Democrats are going to stay in the game after what looks like to be a generational loss of Ohio with Florida a continued uncertainty, they need to keep Arizona and Georgia blue and find a way to flip North Carolina and put Texas into play. If the Blue Wall were more reliable it would be less of a concern but Wisconsin was way too close and Pennsylvania was still within 1 point. Electoral math just favors Republicans too much.

    Stacey Abrams is running for governor again in 2022 but in the meantime the DNC would be smart to have her as the chief organizer of voting efforts in North Carolina and Florida as well as Georgia. And Biden and Harris are going to have to find some way to keep Native American and Latino voters fired up as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by arus2001 View Post
    Assuming DC and PR statehood, I wouldn't put it past deeply red states to decide to split just to recoup the seat gap the next time there's any inkling of GOP majority.

    But yeah, fuck Manchin.
    Texas and Florida are the only 2 that could conceivably do this, you will NEVER see Texas voluntarily break itself apart.
    And if it succeeded, you'd see California do it and cancel that effect out.
    Maybe Alaska, could try.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zealot View Post
    And Biden and Harris are going to have to find some way to keep Native American and Latino voters fired up as well.

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    Well, it's kinda hard to do that when the Republicans buy millions of dollars of fake bullshit to spread all over WhatsApp.

    AOC is right, the party of old ass white men are killing the Democrats in digital.

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    Also, this should be quite reassuring for some of you for the upcoming Civil War 2.0

    https://twitter.com/keithboykin/stat...41422810296321

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