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So… Harris lost by some 2.3 million votes. Collectively, third party spoilers netted over 3 million votes.
Now, we add in the just under 90 million people that chose not to vote at all- and assume that at least several million of those people folded their arms and pouted because something they don’t understand is going on in a place they didn’t know existed a bit over year ago because of reasons that even though has been explained to them ad-nauseam, they still refuse to acknowledge because if flies in the face of their edgy manufactured outrage…
… it’s safe to assume protest votes and non-voting was a tremendous lift in helping trump win the White House.
In 2020 there were just under 2mil independent voters
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_and_independent_candidates_for_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election
So 1mil were added
The Dems had 11million votes less than what they got in 2020, the Republicans had 5mil less
We know Democrats don't change to Republicans, and Republicans very rarely change to Democrats.
(Maybe) the 1mil came from democrat protesters, more likely they came from Republicans who don't want to vote Democrat.
So either way the protest votes were still a drop in the bucket compared to the other 10million white men/women and hispanic men we can see from the shifts in voter demographics.
Im sorry you don't like the data I'm observing but we live in a deeply bigoted country and it's better to try to engage with that and fix it instead of feeling attacked.
Again… 90 million people didn’t vote at all. It’s safe to assume a large portion of them are a result of single issue non-voting protests.
It's rare for more than half the country to vote.
They aren't protesting, they're apathetic
And they’re at fault.
Ok but you understand how you just moved the goalposts like 4 times right?
You can delusionally hate poor people because of a strawman you hallucinated, it's a free country for now.
Poor people? See, you’re creating the straw man here, as you brought that up. Not me. This has nothing to do with poor people aside from your attempt to set up your little gotcha moment.
It’s not working.
And the goalposts were never there to begin with because this isn’t a fucking game.
Stay on topic or walk away.