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Why Was There a Broad Drop-Off in Democratic Turnout in 2024?
The New York Times ^ | Nov. 11, 2024 Updated 3:17 p.m. ET | Michael C. Bender

Posted on 11/11/2024 1:00:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Voters in liberal strongholds across the country, from city centers to suburban stretches, failed to show up to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris at the levels they had for Joseph R. Biden Jr. four years earlier, contributing significantly to her defeat by Donald J. Trump, according to a New York Times analysis of preliminary election data.

The numbers help fill in the picture of Mr. Trump’s commanding victory, showing it may not represent the resounding endorsement of his agenda that the final Electoral College vote suggests. Mr. Trump won the White House not only because he turned out his supporters and persuaded skeptics, but also because many Democrats sat this election out, presumably turned off by both candidates.

Counties with the biggest Democratic victories in 2020 delivered 1.9 million fewer votes for Ms. Harris than they had for Mr. Biden. The nation’s most Republican-heavy counties turned out an additional 1.2 million votes for Mr. Trump this year, according to the analysis of the 47 states where the vote count is largely complete.

The drop-off spanned demographics and economics. It was clear in counties with the highest job growth rates, counties with the most job losses and counties with the highest percentage of college-educated voters. Turnout was down, too, across groups that are traditionally strong for Democrats — including areas with large numbers of Black Christians and Jewish voters.

The decline in key cities, including Detroit and Philadelphia, made it exceptionally difficult for Ms. Harris to win the battlegrounds of Michigan and Pennsylvania.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2024; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; electionfraud; fakenews; mediawingofthednc; michaelcbender; newyorkslimes; nonexistentvoters; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; stopthesteal; tds; tdsimbeciles; trump
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121 posted on 11/11/2024 2:50:02 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We know they’re lying.
They know they’re lying.
And they know we know they’re lying.


122 posted on 11/11/2024 2:51:51 PM PST by Dave911
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To: Responsibility2nd
I've summoned some of the Viking Kitties to examine the gw-ington situation...  
123 posted on 11/11/2024 2:52:31 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Because those racists/misogynists who voted for the white guy in 2020 didn’t vote in the other elections? (Yeah, right…😂🤣)


124 posted on 11/11/2024 2:54:09 PM PST by Allegra (Deplorable garbage)
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To: kiryandil

2018 sign up

Acts like Trump team can’t

Expose 2020 fraud

Stop it for the future

Enact MAGA agenda at same time

Like I said full of shit and here for something else

It’s a shame Fresno way back machine doesn’t work like it used to (at least not I can figure)

It would probably be illuminating

We all watched it unfold in 2020

Now were vindicated in basically everywhere

So don’t effing go wobbly now

Of course the big fight right now is put the ghost of Mitch McConnell to bed now

It cannot be cornyn or thune

They are the enemy


125 posted on 11/11/2024 2:56:28 PM PST by wardaddy (FREE J6ers JAIL LIZ CHENEY! COMEY CLAPPER BRENNAN and so on)
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To: gw-ington
You keep making this point. Over and over again.

And that's exactly why every single Republican talking head & Republican politician who goes on CNN/MSNBC, claiming Democrats stuffed 15 Million fake ballots & rigged tons of voting machines in 2020 always instantly lose their argument when the CNN/MSNBC interviewer calmly asks them: "Which specific ballot was fake & which specific voting machine was rigged by Democrats?" Republican's response: "... (cricket sounds) ..."

And yet we've proved you wrong. Over and over again.

And yet you say the election was stolen. How? How was it stolen? 

Be careful of how you explain the obvious answer. I and many others have been telling you this whole damn thread. So if you give us the correct answer as to why the 2020 election was stolen, We will say....

WE TOLD YOU THIS ALREADY! So why do you keep repeating this same lie?

And that's exactly why every single Republican talking head & Republican politician who goes on CNN/MSNBC, claiming Democrats stuffed 15 Million fake ballots & rigged tons of voting machines in 2020 always instantly lose their argument when the CNN/MSNBC interviewer calmly asks them: "Which specific ballot was fake & which specific voting machine was rigged by Democrats?" Republican's response: "... (cricket sounds) ..."

126 posted on 11/11/2024 2:59:00 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (45/FJB/47)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Apparently, the Republicans did a better job of ending fraud than I thought they would.


127 posted on 11/11/2024 3:00:18 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: gw-ington

Almost as insane as believing that Biden got over 81 million votes.

Anyone who things that his legitimate total was close to that is ... well you know.


128 posted on 11/11/2024 3:10:50 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
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To: Allegra

They were voting for the chin-balls in 2020.


129 posted on 11/11/2024 3:14:07 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All

With democrats, it’s fraud. Fraud was way down this time. Why? Who knows…


130 posted on 11/11/2024 3:14:59 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yeah but apparently this is what the Democrats are going with… People just didn’t show up. 🙄

Ghosts appeared in 2020. 81 million never existed. Funny how they out themselves eventually but that’s what criminals typically do. They think they’re safe years after the fact but they’re not


131 posted on 11/11/2024 3:17:42 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Responsibility2nd

Yep! I saw it in real time… 3 AM they stopped counting completely and then all of a sudden… Weird huh?


132 posted on 11/11/2024 3:19:49 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: 1Old Pro

They will still be screaming about transgender mental health, racism, misogyny, Israel, Gazza, Ukraine, mental health, mental health and Orangeman bad


133 posted on 11/11/2024 3:21:46 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: gw-ington

It’s time for you to go night night… The adults are talking here


134 posted on 11/11/2024 3:27:52 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Earth to the NYT, consider that your side just couldn’t cheat as successfully this time. Also, embrace the unavoidable facts that 1) no one respects you any longer, and 2) you and your crowd are only journalists - hence, not on the right side of the Bell Curve. Pity.


135 posted on 11/11/2024 3:29:21 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Look who they ran/inserted as a candidate, no one wanted the imitation black idiot.
I’m sure plenty of leftys stayed home.


136 posted on 11/11/2024 3:32:30 PM PST by Fireone (Americans have had enough.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Perhaps Lara Trump deserves a lot of credit. She did an amazing job at containing the fraud, imo.


137 posted on 11/11/2024 3:34:23 PM PST by Fireone (Americans have had enough.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The NYT is asking where did Joe’s 81 million vote go? That’s a start. The answer is that they were fake votes. The election was stolen. The cabal who stuffed the ballot box got sloppy and over did it. We’ve got them now.


138 posted on 11/11/2024 3:35:59 PM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: Fireone

Leftists never stay home on voting day… But Democrats do. That said, this election proved 2020 was filled with fraud fraud fraud


139 posted on 11/11/2024 3:39:31 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: kiryandil

We all saw probably hundreds of hours of video proof and legal affidavits/ testimony of people who witnessed glaring fraud. We heard hours of testimony from statisticians, and saw their mathematical proof, of fraud.

We saw cheaters covering windows with cardboard so observers’ view was blocked.

We saw videos of cyclists riding up to drop boxes, and unloading stacks of ballots from their backpacks.

I’m glad that people are curious NOW about the legitimacy of that election, but what’s the point now? Other than MAGA being vindicated — which is actually huge — nothing will be done to see justice.


140 posted on 11/11/2024 3:45:32 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Not the whore in '24.)
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