The Election Thread To Talk About The Election

[Dr. Medulla]

Read some speculation about the latest example of polling fuck-uppery in underestimating Trump support. The supposition is that it's not that people don't tell pollsters they support Trump because of secret shame, but a paranoia of deep state monitoring and the like. I dunno, sure?

Also, Trump's share of Republican voters went up from 90% to 92% between the two elections. I wonder, tho, how much that has to do with Republicans who changed their identification to independent. That is, did he actually capture more Republicans or is it a result of driving some out of the party?

[tepista]

[Flex]

Read some speculation about the latest example of polling fuck-uppery in underestimating Trump support. The supposition is that it's not that people don't tell pollsters they support Trump because of secret shame, but a paranoia of deep state monitoring and the like. I dunno, sure?

Also, Trump's share of Republican voters went up from 90% to 92% between the two elections. I wonder, tho, how much that has to do with Republicans who changed their identification to independent. That is, did he actually capture more Republicans or is it a result of driving some out of the party?

i think i was talking about the latter point with wolt some time ago: anyone who would be these mythical "anti-trump republicans" would have bailed on the party a few years ago (the one in my own life i know of, our local county clerk, switched her party affiliation to democrat almost immediately following the 2016 election and she'd already pretty much been a rino for quite a few years). the result is both that trump consolidates republican support event further AND makes the idea of peeling off said republicans an even dumber and more futile project than it would have been in 2016.

[Dr. Medulla]

Read some speculation about the latest example of polling fuck-uppery in underestimating Trump support. The supposition is that it's not that people don't tell pollsters they support Trump because of secret shame, but a paranoia of deep state monitoring and the like. I dunno, sure?

Also, Trump's share of Republican voters went up from 90% to 92% between the two elections. I wonder, tho, how much that has to do with Republicans who changed their identification to independent. That is, did he actually capture more Republicans or is it a result of driving some out of the party?

i think i was talking about the latter point with wolt some time ago: anyone who would be these mythical "anti-trump republicans" would have bailed on the party a few years ago (the one in my own life i know of, our local county clerk, switched her party affiliation to democrat almost immediately following the 2016 election and she'd already pretty much been a rino for quite a few years). the result is both that trump consolidates republican support event further AND makes the idea of peeling off said republicans an even dumber and more futile project than it would have been in 2016.

Yup, I agree. The best you can say is that he's alienated some conservatives, but that's not the same thing as those who identify with the party.

[GotGameGreggy]

Missouri was a bloodbath. An absolute bloodbath. The way this state has been gerrymandered to death pretty much guarantees that no dem can win in my district. Where I live is heavily blue, but my district is so large that it contains bedroom communities and rural areas. No dems won any of the statewide races. Our governor, who wasn't even elected his first term (he came to office when our disgraced former governor resigned), wiped the floor with his challenger. Our governor, who had COVID and then thought it was a good idea to hold a fall hootenanny. Our governor, who is so far up Trump's ass he could give him his colonoscopy results.

65% voter turnout in the city of St. Louis. It's shocking.

I'm in St. Louis County and I voted for the first time yesterday (I was 17 at the time of the 2016 Election). I voted Democrat all around. I know Missouri is very Conservative, but I wanted to do my part and make our state slightly less red. Every vote counts, we can make a difference.

Thank you for voting and nice to see a fellow St. Louis Countyian on IMCT! I was really pulling for Jill Schupp and really thought she had a chance. Wagner just sucks.

Yeah, I wanted Jill Schupp to win too. Not only do I disagree with Wagner's politics, Wagner also seems like the definition of a "Karen". She has that "I demand to speak with the manager" look

[tepista]

[BostonBeaneater]

[tepista]

SHE'S A WITCH!

[BostonBeaneater]

SHE'S A WITCH!

So you're saying you'd go for it, right?

[Wolter]

SHE'S A WITCH!

So you're saying you'd go for it, right?

He has to pick up every stitch

[tepista]

SHE'S A WITCH!

So you're saying you'd go for it, right?

He has to pick up every stitch

Beatniks are out to make it rich

[BostonBeaneater]

[Low Down Low]

Was listening to a democrat commentator earlier blaming the poor performance in the congressional and house elections on the party "adopting the cultural positions of the hard left". By cultural positions he means lgbt, reproductive and other fundamental human rights. I often wonder what some people would do if they didn't have the left to bash around for their own failings and shortcomings.

[Dr. Medulla]

Was listening to a democrat commentator earlier blaming the poor performance in the congressional and house elections on the party "adopting the cultural positions of the hard left". By cultural positions he means lgbt, reproductive and other fundamental human rights. I often wonder what some people would do if they didn't have the left to bash around for their own failings and shortcomings.

Given that Democrats have fundamentally adopted the economic position of the right over the past 40 years, this person also wants them to endorse the right's attitudes on social policy? "We can't win until we fully surrender."

[Dr. Medulla]

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/fox ... 36d95228c5

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