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Opinion Haver retweeted
regardless of the election’s results it’s obvious this country has gotten way more rightwing especially amongst men and i think a lot of that is what is fed to us online, we have to figure out a way to stop every dude under 35 from turning into crypto hitler
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Opinion Haver retweeted
really nothing else left to say at this point
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It's also like, easily one of the most common stories around the world right now
The overall story, so far: Nothing here looks like a story of various campaign decisions or a VP choice or big set piece speeches. It's an electorate mad at the incumbent WH's record and expressing it pretty uniformly everywhere, blue and red states alike.
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Replying to @yFactr
Yeah basically what I was thinking. And we as a society never really recovered from the path 1968 put us on
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This is worse than 2016 because people have lived through this shit for a decade and decided fuck it, Arby's being $5 is all that matters. This is an evil fucking country man and it doesn't even deserve the small cushion a Dem house might provide
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Opinion Haver retweeted
Trump’s first win felt like an aberration, like America was just in a petulant mood. This feels a lot darker. I don’t know if we come back from this one
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such dark times ahead
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And many are moving right
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Opinion Haver retweeted
The issue of a red mirage is, the finished counties are still showing rightward shifts.
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Oconee County, Georgia (sub/exburban to Athens) has now counted all of its votes. Trump improved his margin there from 33.5% to 35.9%. His raw vote margin increased from 8,435 to 9,808.
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"Dems held onto their 2016/2020 gains with white suburbanites, but bleed out with white and non-white working class voters simultaneously because of inflation" is one of the bad outcomes I was really, really hoping we'd manage to avoid.
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For all the "but what about Hamilton County" responses when I said the suburbs weren't improving: as they've counted eday Trump has done better, he's now at 4.4% ahead. Even if he doesn't quite manage to finish at his old 6.8% margin, that's still basically the same.
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What? No, it's both, there's an entire table underneath, you can add it up yourself. It's only missing a few eday precincts.
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Oh goodie, and the philly turnout surge may not have been real after all xitter.cf/sixtysixwards/status/1…
The polls are closed! I'll leave the tracker running for you to get in your last submissions. But let's consider this our ~final estimate. The tracker thinks we landed just above 2020 turnout (confidence interval is 713,000 - 979,000). Thank you all for a wild ride.
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that's just talking about the interactive map below it, not the vote totals
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If you want to say there are more Dem votes hiding out there in mail or whatever, fine, but Trump is 5k votes ahead of his 2020 total and harris is 16k behind biden. that's a problem when this is the kind of county that's supposed to counteract rural swings.
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Replying to @citizenkang
It says it's not included in the map. The 119K EVs are already counted
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Replying to @socialconcarne
Booned hasn't shifted to the left yet. It's at Trump+11 with about 3/4 counted at most
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Replying to @seahawks270
they haven't seen anything yet, they just counted the early votes first and are getting redder as eday comes in
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Like, either this is a tabulation error or Harris is in serious trouble and has to hope that the massive rural swings from the south and new england are just not quite enough to flip MI, PA, and WI
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