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    The national popular vote is a vibes-check at best. In nearly every state that matters, Harris did better than Biden, and in the ONE state that she didn’t, she did worse by ~90k votes. In those states, (again, the ones that decided the election), Trump voters just turned out more than they did in 2020.

    PA Biden: 3,377,674 Harris: 3,423,042

    AZ Biden: 1,672,143 Harris: 1,582,860

    NV Biden: 669,890 Harris: 705,197

    GA Biden: 2,461,854 Harris: 2,548,017

    NC Biden: 2,684,292 Harris: 2,715,380

    WI Biden: 1,610,184 Harris: 1,668,229

    MI Biden: 2,649,852 Harris: 2,736,533

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      The economy is going great and the genocide does not matter. Democrats did amazing as well but somehow Trump won. Who knows why. Must be the border bill Harris should have been tougher on immigration!

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        just to be clear: fuck the dems.

        That said, we that protest their awful shit just didn’t have the impact that stories like this make it seem like we did which is sad and horrifying for different reasons.

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          The protests also killed the youth turnout and all progressive activism. The people who are normally at the forefront of activism were now fighting against the Dems. Enthousiam was utterly dead for Democrats. The low turnout is all the evidence needed. People did not even feel like going out to vote Democrat as they do not believe it mattered.

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            Agreed…people who are generally not in battleground states. It’s clearly something that could impact future elections, but it’s also pretty clear that it didn’t have a strong impact on this election. There is no evidence of low Democrat turnout in battleground states.