Actually thinking about it I’m expecting a massive double down blaming whatever they can hang their hats on, cat ladies or whatever.
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Yeah. People are very reluctant to admit mistakes of this magnitude. It’s too cognitively painful to process so the failures then become someone else’s fault.
Remain lied too
Remain should have done more to combat leave’s lies
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So essentially the pressure worked, but it’s just in the battleground states he won the battle.
I’m not sure this is a very strong support though, unless there’s some way to figure out what the past votes/non-votes were. Otherwise it’s just reading into populations that might just be rather different.
Say what you will about the way Dorsey and Parag ran twitter with respect to political content, but they never bragged that they used to achieve the electoral result they wanted
And this
https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1857736106017439938
Over the last 12 months there were loads of instances demonstrating the finger was being actively put on the scale. We already knew about the changes to the algorithm that uniquely pushed Elon’s personal content, and the elimination of community notes from his disinformation, but there were loads of other examples. I personally repeatedly saw content in my regular feed from GOP accounts, including some from Trump himself, despite me not following those accounts or them not being retweeted by anyone I follow. Influencers on the left were repeatedly reporting experiencing culls of their followers with people raising their hand to say that certain influential accounts had been removed from their following.
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A tedious but obvious “roll your eyes example”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/muslims-who-voted-for-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks/
“Trump won because of us and we’re not happy with his Secretary of State pick and others,” says Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Muslims for Trump. Muslim support for Trump helped him win Michigan and may have factored into other swing state wins, strategists believe.
Forgive me if too tedious…
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What an idiot.
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Which is why blue sky - regardless of the echo chamber or future troll infestation arguments - is such a necessary step. Twitter is officially a MAGA mouthpiece.
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Lots of assumptions about the political landscape were made in the days after election night based on the vote totals. As said then, it takes a stupidly long time to count all the vote. This is where we are now with votes still to be tallied
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This is one of my biggest frustrations, it seems as though people just can’t adapt to the reality of the modern world…
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It’s ultra annoying that some states take a ridiculously long time to count votes. I just don’t understand why California has to be so out of step with NY or Florida. I can understand a state like Alaska as it has communities that are difficult to get to.
Actually, NY has still not finished.
California allows mail-in votes posted on Election Day, so the number to be counted doesn’t even get locked in until around November 12
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It was always an uphill task but I was hoping that Peltola could hold on to her seat.
In other news, because of how she won her seat the first couple of times, Republicans tried to torpedo ranked-choice voting, but it’s on a knife’s edge at the moment:
It feels like that repeal measure should have some kind of ranked voting measure.
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The outcome itself is after the recount, but I think the numbers haven’t been updated with those of the recount.
https://m.facebook.com/reel/1091414529322552/?referral_source=external_deeplink
Love the comment why Trump got elected…
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Florida requires mail in ballots to be received by election day, whereas CA requires them only to be post marked by election day (with some nuance for things like overseas and military votes). It is a legitimate debate about what is the best balance between timeliness of the results vs giving the electorate the full period to make their decision. Example: Comey announcing they were reopening the server investigation of Clinton the week of the 2016 election was a decisive factor in the minds of some voters. People voting by mail in FL would have been required to have already sent in their vote by the time of this development whereas CA would have had the option of still having their vote in their hand.
The other thing is we have a BIG time lag between the election and the formation of the next government. The logistics of the 18th century necessitated that, and while that is no longer true, the timeline is the same which allows for processes that take time to finish. It’s really only public pressure to know the result that justifies putting in the resources to come to a quick result, and that does not exist in the western states (yet) because we can know the outcome pretty quickly without knowing the final count, or the results of the smaller races where there is little national attention. Florida is obviously a different beast and the experience of the 2000 catastrophe gave them the incentive to put more resources into coming to a quick count.
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It’s actually a relief that the traditional swing states are in a part of the country where the votes are counted quickly, so at least the presidential result is known early. The house and senate is sometimes a waiting game because of California. I think it was at least a week before we knew who was going to control the house.
That is partly luck. PA had the potential to really draw this out given they dont start counting mail in ballots until after the polls close, and AZ was not called until the Saturday
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More or less final results. Contrary to the initial narratives- only a small drop off in turn out from last time and a narrow margin across the tipping states determined the outcome.
https://x.com/Redistrict/status/1868695510384783372
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So, 2016 re-run.
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