The 2024 Election —What did we learn?

PasstheDamnBallGuy said:
I think that's a problem with a lot of this stuff and that sentiment that, well it's within the laws, is that it's not a game. Too many people in this country have picked a party and just follow blindly whatever their dear leader tells them. Like abortion for example wouldn't be an issue in America if some preachers didn't decide they wanted to keep black people out of their schools and needed a distraction. 
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I'm totally with you on the idea that politics shouldn't be treated like a game and that just because something is legal doesn't necessarily make it right.

But, the fact is both parties have a history of pushing the limits within the legal framework to get what they want... especially when it comes to something like SC nominations. It's frustrating, but until there's some kind of reform, politicians are going to bend rules. Perhaps the focus should be on changing those rules to promote fairness rather than expecting politicians not to exploit them.

 
btw, i'm sure most have seen this graph circling around twitter or even on this board

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A few things about this, though.

#1 - look at the Y axis. Instead of starting at zero, it starts at 50 million people. This doesn't make it 'wrong', but it makes it intentionally misleading when it should look something closer to this:

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#2 - the worst offense is that this data is wrong, or is at least being inappropriately used in comparison to 2020. There are still a lot of votes left to be counted and added. 

What's the point of all this? There isn't much of one, other than a continuous encouragement to check the claims you see online. Anyone who's not a moron knows there's no smoking gun here, and a non-misleading presentation of the data doesn't conclude any differently in regards to Kamala's sound defeat, but I'm guessing her total will end up well over 70 million when it's all over.

 
You know what makes it seem like the election was stolen?  When you are still trying to prove that it was not stolen...5 years later.

This is like telling your mom you didn't break a lamp that you broke...15 years later.

Just let it go.  It wasn't stolen.  

 
Kamala and Biden both have said we need to accept the results and there will be a peaceful transfer of power. Different tone from the losing incumbent than last election...

I can promise you there won't be a January 6th this time around. You can't "well look the dems are worse than Trump" on this one man.

 
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Nebfanatic said:
Kamala and Biden both have said we need to accept the results and there will be a peaceful transfer of power. Different tone from the losing incumbent than last election...

I can promise you there won't be a January 6th this time around. You can't "well look the dems are worse than Trump" on this one man.
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I’m just curious why Trump is so eager to accept these results when he has been saying we can’t trust them for the past 4 years???

 
Archy1221 said:
I’m super hopeful you continue to have this thought process for 4 more years as you can’t grasp the shift happening.  
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You realize I don't pick the Democratic nominee or the messaging for the party. Also hispanic people still mostly voted based on the perceived economy, but sure because they are Hispanic it's all about immigration for them 

 
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