Posted on 11/12/2024 8:14:25 AM PST by Starman417
The New York Times rushed out a broken-narrative-mending article yesterday headlined, “Why Was There a Broad Drop-Off in Democratic Turnout in 2024?” The ominous sub-headline offered: “Many Democrats failed to turn out to vote at the rate they did in 2020 when they ousted Donald Trump.” Baffling! Where could the mysterious missing Democrat voters from 2020 have gone?
It’s tempting to think the Times is edging toward uncovering a terrible truth, but do not be fooled. The New York Times knows perfectly well why all those magical 2020 Democrat voters didn’t turn out in 2024: Because they don’t exist.
The only reason the Times is talking about it now is because it has to; a lot of Democrats questions about the 2020 election are starting to boil over. So the Times raced to put a lid on that sort of thinking before it could ruin Thanksgiving dinner.
The Times had to do something. In the vacuum of any other permissive programming, some smart Democrats were connecting some very inconvenient dots and starting to think for themselves. Look at the numbers from just this one example tweet from a relatively small account — it’s had 1.4 million views:
A new BlueAnon conspiracy theory is born! They’ve re-discovered election denialism! (Where is the FBI when you need it?) While it would be fun to fact-check the Stolen StarLink theory, it would be a digression.
The frayed narrative was falling apart. It forced the Times to admit that there is, in fact, a mysterious and very thought-provoking dropoff in Democrat ballots between 2020 and 2024. Its article primed readers by first proposing a half dozen possible reasons. Then, most of the way down the article, the Times finally confessed one of the most remarkable facts about this history-shattering 2024 election. “Remarkable” meaning being worthy of remarking upon. Let us remark upon this:
Abra-cadabra! Poof! Buh bye! Adios! Amscray! Honey, I shrunk the Democrats.
In predominantly urban counties. Meaning, big blue cities.
The Times, or whichever deep-state psy-officer actually wrote this article, excreted an overflowing septic tank of excuses purporting to explain the Great Democrat Voter Evaporation of 2024. For instance:
— “Harris did not have enough time to overhaul the campaign after taking over for Mr. Biden.”
— “Some backsliding could be expected after the record turnout in 2020, which was aided by pandemic rule changes that increased mail voting.”
— “Harris was simply the latest political casualty of a postpandemic global trend favoring challengers, no matter the incumbents’ politics.”
— “New federal election rulings let campaigns directly coordinate with outside groups on pushing voters to the polls.”
— “The Harris campaign was chasing ghosts by trying to appeal to Republican crossover voters, campaigning with Liz Cheney, and talking about threats to democracy.”
— “Trump had edgier and stronger material that he was constantly communicating at rallies, on podcasts and in other appearances.”
My goodness. Even Blues Brother Jake couldn’t cough up a longer list of evasive explanations.
Could the truth that the Times was trying to bury under a railcar of rationales be that fake mail-in ballots and overnight electronic cheating falsely inflated the 2020 Democrat voting figures? And the 2024 figures are closer to the real vote? Is that the truth the Times was desperately trying to stop smart Democrats from figuring out?
Many of us feared a repeat of 2020 this year. What changed? In hindsight, the good news was that fixing egregious, 2020-style cheating only required focusing on a few urban, blue counties from which Democrats could tip the statewide scales:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
The totals should be complimentary....they are not...
Blaming Musk and Starlink is one of the funniest excuses they’ve offered.
I’ve always thought they were in the “Cloud”.
Are “Cloud” people NPCs?
The simplest explanation is this: Those voters stayed home. There’s no law that says you must vote in 2024 because you voted in 2020.
Didn’t a lot of States allow mail-in voting in 2020, but not in 2024, due to COVID?
I think the possibility exists that the democrats didn’t want to cheat this time around or they cheated less because they weren’t so enthusiastic about Ms. Word Salad being POTUS as incredible as that may sound. They knew quite well she would be beyond a disaster. Can you imagine Kamala giving a state of the union speech? She would have obliterated the party.
You/we are pi$$ing into the wind using logic with Rat voters.
The elites know the truth. The rank & file will remain cluelessly paranoid.
While I will grant you that that *IS* a possibility, it ignores the massive amount of evidence uncovered since 2020 that 2020 was rigged.
The simple explanation is that they had a lot more obstacles in rigging it this year, though Arizona is still trying to rig the downballot races.
The cabal that stole the 2020 election got sloppy. 81 million votes was way too many. I bet the excess fake votes were cast in non battle ground states to ensure a popular vote win. It’s not mentioned often enough that vote counting was stopped simultaneously at 10 PM in the swing states to calculate how make fake votes they needed. A dead give away of the steal.
I agree there was cheating in 2020. However, the other explanation widely floated for the failure of dem turn out is that dems just didn’t turn out. they didn’t have anyone that would excite them enough to get off the couch.
Hey bimbos and pretentious 'men' of the corrupt New York Times and Washington MSM 'journalists' :
Here's a flash. Check to see if the precincts with the 'missing voters' correlates with the same 'precincts' that turned their ballot boxes in at least two hours late in the last few elections. Surprise, surprise there WAS a red wave among other irregularities...
That may be a simple explanation, but it’s not correct.
Switching votes from Trump to Biden and election results rigging were the primary cause.
Some of us “election conspiracy nuts” have been saying it for four years...
I’m still saying it. Hoping that Trump’s people can find the missing pieces and make it all PUBLIC.
Tried it again in Pennsylvania this year.
they threw out republican Poll watchers.
GOP lawyers showed up and immediately got them Let back in
Which means they had no reason to throw them out in the first place
Which begs The Question , what were they planning on doing ???
This year’s numbers really point out what a statistical anomaly 2020 was. If you look at voter turnout going all the way back to 1900, you’ll find that numbers go up, not down, almost always. The few times they’ve gone down, it’s been when an incumbent lost a little traction (Obama and Reagan both had this problem, to the tune of 2-3M.) But other than Ross Perot’s ill-fated second run as an independent (and it was no mystery where his voters went), this has NEVER happened before. A drop of like 8%? Never, ever, ever has this happened to either of the two major parties. Not in the 21st century, and not in the 20th century (I didn’t go back beyond that.)
Hanlon’s razor: People should consider the simplest explanation for a situation, rather than assuming malice. It’s often stated as “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”.
Statistically, that is rare. The kind of people who vote are the kind who always vote, generally speaking. There may be 2-3 million who are wishy-washy like that, (we saw that during Obama's 2nd term,) but right now Harris is 10 million votes behind Biden. That's just never happened before with the two major parties.
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