Just when I needed a perfect example of why voting local matters, here comes my current favorite sitting mayor, Aftab Pureval.
https://twitter.com/AftabPureval/status/1541408608855871489?s=20&t=Z8fcCRdx-Yam6rBMxO5b_g
This tweet is part of a huge thread…I suggest reading it all.
South Dakota v Dole upheld the law because 10% was pressure, but not irresistible, coercive pressure.
10 point swing in the generic ballot in the Ds favor from April.
And this matters why in a minority rules society?
Telling that 20% of Republicans oppose and 69% of college educated! How are these fascists winning? Do college graduates not vote? As scary as this shit is, I find it absolutely fascinating how the chips fall into place to create the reality we’re in right now
I’ll be surprised if this bump (assuming it’s legit) doesn’t evaporate within the next 3 months.
There is nothing about the coming election that is more unfair than the last one the Dems won. The Congressional maps are more favorable for the Democrats.
This is awesome news! I don’t keep up like you guys, but I thought I remembered reading that Rs were busy gerrymandering everything to the point where Dems have to win +60% of the vote just to tie even, but maybe that for the electoral college? In fact, haven’t they been doing this for decades and aren’t counties also gerrymandered in favor of Rs?
Also, what exactly causes this? What legislators are empowered with creating the maps? That’s where I think skydiver is right that we must start winning these local elections again. Rs have spent decades rigging the voting system. What do we have to do to get a level playing field again?
Lastly, it’s the epitome of all things sick that Rs haven’t won a popular presidential vote more than once over the last 30 years and are currently steamrolling the entire system. I understand that this is with the help of Democratic politicians (some implicit, some not). I guess what I’m asking is, if I want to become an activist for the majority, where do I begin? I don’t even know who I’m fighting. Imho, it’s almost as important to knock out these old white men (and women like Pelosi) from politics. Sure, they’re not the most evils ones, but they allow the evil. They’re complicit and they gotta go. So where do we start?
And more, at least one party actually does something for its (admittedly psychotic) voter base.
Problem is when dems win they allow some non-partisan organization set the map. When the GOP wins they draw districts like this:
And our courts are crooked so this happens:
So yeah… up until which point Dems will just do everything within their rights to maintain power… we’re fucked. These morons would rather lose with “honor” than call out their scumbag opposition. I’m 100% with @WichitaDM that they have to be in on it at this point. Nothing else makes sense.
In short - WAAF.
If everything else is the same (age, gender, race, etc.), someone with a college degree is more likely to vote than someone without one.
However, the last time I looked, only about 38% of adults in the US have 4 year college degrees. I found this surprisingly low because my friends and coworkers tend to be pretty highly educated so my experience makes me think that a college education is more common than it is.
Also, older folks tend to vote at a higher rate than younger folks, and I’d imagine older generations are less likely to have degrees.
It’s almost like they make it fucking impossible for poor/working/young people to vote on purpose. If we actually gave a fuck, we wouldn’t have elections on Tuesday amongst other things.
I mean here’s the rationale:
Just another perfect USA #1 tradition we refuse to change, since it would actually allow fair representation.
The most obvious addition to the For the People Act would be to make Election Day a Monday and a federal holiday, and allow expansive early voting. Make the GOP vote against a three day weekend.
Of course it could backfire in multiple ways.
I can’t imagine why this is when we have so much more at stake. I honestly don’t think any of my friends don’t vote unless they say they do and don’t. This should be fairly easy to look up, but I don’t even know what the population numbers are. I just looked on statista and I only saw 15-64 age group, which is useless for what I want to know
How could making it a federal holiday backfire? I think it’s nuts that it isn’t. And 100% what feedthabeast said about putting polling places in the most inconvenient places for poor people to get to
They’d fuck it up somehow.
Broad generalizations here, but as people get older:
They tend to have more time to devote to following politics because their personal and professional lives are a bit calmer and more stable than when they were younger. They tend to have better jobs that give them time off to vote. They tend to not move as often, so they don’t have to worry about getting registered at a new address, figuring out new polling places, etc.
Eta: this has age stats. I’m not sure if it shows the categories you were looking for, but it breaks it down more than than statista
All that makes a lot of sense. It’s obvious I don’t follow stuff anywhere near as closely as many here do and I’m often amazed at how much time some have to even just post stuff on here. I’m grateful they do, because much of it is very informative
That link did show what I was looking for (the population of 19-36. Not as many as I thought
Change it to be a Wednesday and make it a holiday. Charge a fine for not handing in a ballot. Then everyone will go vote instead of turning into a 3 or 4 day beach holiday.
Young people might just party and drink instead of voting.
A lot of people are outraged about this, and that’s only going to increase as things get worse at the state level.
