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Aaron Astor
@AstorAaron
This honestly cracks me up - tens of thousands of people voted for Trump but left the rest of their ballots blank, which allowed the Democratic Senators to win several states along with Trump. Undervotes used to be a Dem problem, esp. w/ Obama.
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Dave Wasserman
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Need proof Trump's appeal isn't easily transferrable to other Republicans? Sen. Jacky Rosen (D) is on track to receive fewer votes in Nevada than Harris, but still won #NVSEN b/c at least 70k Trump voters didn't bother voting for Sam Brown (R).
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Aaron Astor
@AstorAaron
Even North Carolina, with its toxic Governor race, only had about 86,000 undervotes (vote for President but no vote for Governor). Nevada may be a bit different because it actually gives you a "None of these Candidate" option.
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Suburbane
@Chad_Kosciusko
I was very close to voting (Sherrod) Brown along with Trump and considered simply leaving it blank. I could definitely see oldline GOPers voting Trump to keep Harris out but not voting for Sam Brown for whatever reason. Rosen is reasonably appealing in general. Trump’s appeal
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Aaron Astor
@AstorAaron
I've undervoted many times myself. I usually vote in GOP primaries so I can vote in the contested races. But in the uncontested races I often leave them blank or write in Parson Brownlow or Thaddeus Stevens.
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@covidmommyporn
True, but a bir of a cope-tweet, nonetheless. Dems are not in a good place and seriously need to have their own, internal realignment. Future support will require them not woking about.
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Bryan Howard
@bryan_howa16073
This was the huge downfall in my assessment before the election. I viewed that grew radically smaller over the last 4 years. Apparently not. This MAGA coalition will be the death of the GOP if radical adjustments aren’t made to move away from it
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Chief Jim (Fat Rambo)
@JimChieff
Authoritarians don't need senators. That's the overriding mindset. The demographic that pushed Trump over the top were the most rabid of all fascists in society
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Aaron Astor
@AstorAaron
Not by as much as you'd expect given the national shift at the Presidential level. A small GOP House majority is ungovernable - too many nutters who vote against everything.
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Bike Leyns 🥥
@305to214
I'm gonna go ahead and thank these patriotic Americans for their under votes. They understand that voting is a sacred right and they choose not to desecrate their ballots by making a random choice for which they have done zero research.
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The Civil Liberal
@cfthepodcast
Of course I thought Harris was going to win the election and then Republicans would be in real trouble because lots of Trump voters don’t care about the GOP. It’s still 100% true, it’s just that Trump won the election :-)
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@yasegumi
It is so easy to just not vote Republican at all. I did my best to find a possible GOP vote (OH-3, so I knew it was uphill), but every single one had some “who cares if you die” policy position, and no Dem did. Another half day wasted just to end up with a straight ticket, again.
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Elan
@engele
Some of that was likely strategic.. a lot of folks pissed at Biden, but who did not want a Trump mandate.
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Charles Gaba ✡️
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Charles Gaba ✡️
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Also, the 5 swing state GOP Senate candidates are falling further behind Trump. Collectively they're now 536,000 behind him...while Dem candidates are now collectively 24K above Harris. Casey is still 40K behind McCormick, however. There's supposedly still 100K left to count.
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Max G.
@Maxfretless
I've been a poll worker in Philadelphia for years & I can absolutely attest to plenty of old dudes with walkers & portable oxygen tanks storming into the booth yelling "I don't care about the rest of this; I just wanna vote for Trump! How do I vote for Trump?"
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@thebadseed2
Here in Pennsylvania, it was still the Dems who didn’t vote downballot, even though our incumbent D Senator was running against a highly unpopular R candidate. Before the mandatory recount, the R is ahead by 40K votes and 178K people just didn’t bother to vote for Senator.
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hedgehogday
@hedgehogday
Yea, there's more and more reasons to think that both Trump and Obama are sui generis. This was a problem for D's in 2016 and beyond and will be for R's in the future. There is no Trumpism without Trump. And R's can't turn the ship around again to go back to country club party.
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Madison
@levineps
Probably a fair amount of independent voters, who didn't care about the down ballot races. The presidential race takes up so much space every four years, some people are uninterested or don't care about even other federal or gubernatorial races.
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askbal
@askbal
Does this mean Trump is really the Republican Obama? Good framework to think about.
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Justin Leiby
@justinleiby
It's feasible that a lot of voters wanted Trump but didn't give a crap about Brown, right? A vote for Trump def doesn't mean a preference for all GOPers. I leave races blank all the time (inc Prez this time bc my only choices were Trump, Harris, RFK Jr).
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Ringo Flopagain
@444Skyclub
Under Obama, the least educated voters voted in majority for him. Now, they overwhelmingly vote for DJT. They vote less on down ballot races, probably because they don’t know how the system works, and/or are voting for the charisma & rhetoric of a candidate before his ideology.
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demosthenes
@DariusVidas
This is a result of less educated+less politically informed people shifting from Democrat to Republican over the last decade.
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ATLUTDFAN#1 ⭐️
@ATLUTDFAN1
Nah that’s not what happened it will come to light soon enough as to how the numbers didn’t jive. Just think bate and switch for now.
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@BresciaEric
Not clear how much of this is under vote and how many are split ticket voters. Probably a mix.
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NC-Skins
@NC_Skins_WFT
Trump is celebrity status. No other GOPer would be bringing people out solely to vote for them alone. When he no longer is on the ticket, those people will disappear again.
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ken
@thedigitalken
you’re leaving out the people who refused to vote for an ethnic cleanser but voted Dem down the rest of the ballot. same effect.
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Adam
@adams_sphere
this isn’t surprising at all, Trump is the more extreme Republican version of Obama. Both are populists appealing to different bases.
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High Class Vulpine Master.
@neofox5
Just proves how stupid voters truly are. We can't get the seriousness of the vote through to them,we can't get them to vote all the way down the ballot. So many people voted for progressive policies but voted for Republican people to enact them. Just pure madness.
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HNE
@hnejr
Both Ds and Rs (establishment types) fail to understand Trump's connection with working folks. The party that figures it out first has a chance to built a sustainable coalition. And if you don't think Trump's selection of Vance wasn't strategy, you are underestimating him again.
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InformedCitizen 🗳️
@deedoherty
They didn't vote down ballot because it requires reading, analyzing, and critical thinking. Seems most are not taught the basics of how to participate in self-governing. Easier to turn everything over to a strongman than learn how to think.
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Sigmar Male Grindset
@Infosecpleb
Saw an article somewhere that the Obama-Trump voters basically love a decisive, strong leader and that's basically their only thing. Some people just want to Stan populists.
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mike dun
@mikedun11
This seems like it just comes with leaders who appeal to people who aren’t usually political. If a lot of Obama voters leaving the dems indicate anything it’s that these people won’t keep voting Republicans when Trump is gone.
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eljay
@veritas763
I guess its pretty funny that the Democrat at top of the ticket was so repulsive that millions of people showed up just to give you guys the middle finger.
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Jack Butler
@pickmusicguitar
It cracks me up that R’s likely control all 3 branches and liberals still don’t get it. She was a terrible candidate who couldn’t even handle an interview.
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Dan
@dt000509
And you can easily see the similarity there: candidates who brought new voters out. Those low propensity voters don’t always translate elsewhere.
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