Georgia’s results page doesn’t seem to count write-ins. I wrote myself in for one race and it said the Republican had 100%. Also, the sham congressional race in my district that had a MAGA run as a Dem certainly had a whole bunch of write-ins for the real Dem and those aren’t shown. Too bad, I’m curious how many there were.
Just came here to post that.
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Reading In the Garden of the Beasts about Hilter’s regime before the war, and that was a pretty common refrain from outsiders. They disliked Hitler’s dictatorial aspects but thought it’d be helpful for the economy and unemployment.
You have to qualify as a write-in candidate. I assume you did that?
Tracey Verhoeven did qualify for GA US House 11. I assume she will show up in the certified results.
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I believe in my heart that this is the median american voter
https://x.com/DramaAlert/status/1855801977097097463?t=W3s7n03HZSBiw7Wua5wgTQ&s=19
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BuT HoW DiD ThE GeRmAn’S AlLoW HiTlEr??
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one of my favorite things to do at derpy trumpy talk poker tables that wont stfu is start dropping scorching hot dumb trump takes like “thank god he got elected, christmas probably was a goner this year under kamala’s sharia law” and you can almost never go too far they just nod and agree
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To be fair: The Germans didnt allow him it was politicians like von Papen and big money who pushed Hindenburg. All thought they could control him. Maybe similar like how GOP politicians and billionaires might think they can control Trump until they get swept away.
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I tried this and got frustrated that yeah these people believe everything
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I picked up this strat a few years ago because if you go far enough the floor will come over and tell everyone to stfu and then everyones tilted and mad and quiet which is good for action. trump’s good for action, unfortunately wall street agrees
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Homan doubled down on his hard-line stance on 60 Minutes last month. When asked by Cecilia Vega if there was a way to carry out Trump’s mass deportation dreams without separating families, Homan responded, “Of course there is. Families can be deported together.”
Based on all the reports it seems dems have to spend more than 50% of their future campaigning talking about the economy and at least 25% talking about wars.
I would like to see some analysis on credibility. I’ve been thinking about how it matters in the current political landscape, not so much of the candidates themselves, but of their surrogates and other ways in which candidates messages make it to non-political
Junkies. Like, a lot of people think that Donald Trump is going to do the things they want in the ways they want despite him basically saying everything to everyone. I think a big part of the reason that works is because these people trust the opinions of people like Joe Rogan and others to interpret and tell them what Trump is actually going to do and they don’t trust the opinions of Kamala surrogates. This is where the right has such a huge advantage over the left. They have a massive apparatus to both develop and propagate friendly messaging that plays well with podcast bros, gamers, Latinos, etc.The left’s messaging doesn’t have similar ways to propagate their messages. Even the media outlets and podcasters who are ostensibly left leaning or explicitly so are for the most part more interested in accurate and complete reporting on things, so they will constantly undermine left propeganda and make it less credible. In that atmosphere even perfect messaging falls apart, I think. I’m just rambling at this point. But I think messaging without credible sources that will wash the messaging and broadcast it to the masses in ways that people will actually listen is useless.
Good read that describes the delusional response to the election
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Yeah, but what do voters say they think Kamala and the Dumbocrats want at the border and for trans rights? Kamala talked about funding and walls, but she didn’t even have the courage to say hordes of MS13 are going to rape you.
Trump is on track for a smaller popular vote victory than Hillary Clinton won in 2016.
Democrats have work to do. They need to build a coalition that’s not always 2 points from losing to MAGA. But I don’t see Republicans internalizing that this was a narrow victory in a historically anti-incumbent year. Many presidencies have faltered by misreading an anti-incumbent mood as a sweeping ideological mandate.
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I do wonder if the left got a little too comfortable with the gay marriage success in terms of America’s willingness to advance social issues at a rapid rate.
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I don’t know, this seems like the kind of milquetoast, half measure, “let’s build a coalition by triangulating many indicators but we don’t really stand for anything” approach that guarantees the Dems lose.
It feels wrong to distill things down to simple narratives, but it seems hard for me to deny this simple narrative: The Rs built a coalition of people that deny objective, observable reality and Ds built a coalition of people that trust observable facts. That’s a pretty sharp divide that I don’t think is trending in the Dems favor if they just Keep Calm And Carry On and try to offer some new pitches to find 2 million more votes. They’re in an arms race with a giant misinformation machine and if they don’t grapple that head on they’ll just keep losing.
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Same sex marriage polls at 69% now. There probably always going to be a leading edge on social issues and the GOP will think it’s a sin against God and Nature and the Dems will always say it’s maybe ok can we please not vilify people but not really allow freedom or healthcare or whatever. Then some ballot measures will pass and things will creep forward.
The 2 party thing though means that there’s game theory going on and both sides are just trying to find the positions that carve out the slimmest of majorities.