• TheBraveSirRobbin@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        I thought my state would go blue. Went out to vote anyway and voted blue. Brought my spouse out to vote as well. Our state did not go blue. Country is fucked

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        8 days ago

        folks that voted third party because “my state will be blue”

        Admittedly not all the votes are in, but…

        • Pennsylvania - Trump up by 130k votes, Jill Stein got 33k votes
        • Michigan - Trump up by 84k votes, Jill Stein got 45k votes
        • Wisconsin - Trump up by 28k votes, Jill Stein got 12k votes

        Are all Jill Stein votes from protest voters? Nah, there are diehard Green supporters out there.

        Are there other 3rd party candidates? Of course, but how many RFK (more votes than Stein in WI) voters could she have converted? Almost none.

        This was her blue wall road to victory, show me the electoral path to victory ruined by third party voters who would have otherwise voted Democrat.

        This election was lost by people not showing up to vote. Trump is sitting at almost 72M votes right now compared to 74M in 2020. Harris is only at 67M now, compared to Biden’s 81M in 2020. While there are still votes to count, there aren’t 15M votes left to count.

        Whether it was lack of interest, protest, or whatever reason, 10% of voters stayed home this year.

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          8 days ago

          My election registration got canceled three times this year. The last two times it was because of a “duplicate”, and they were counting my canceled registrations as duplicates. I have no idea if my ballot got counted, or if it was discarded.

          I vote blue in one of those red states…