Maybe its something to do with the fact that Trump who is a convicted criminal, openly fascist rapist has surrounded himself with incompetent, openly fascist sycophants and is now doing everything he can to sink America.
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Unfortunately it has more to do with the fact it's an off year and MAGA has a lot of the low information voters now. So now Dems do better on off cycle elections because educated people are more likely to realize they are happening and important.
I'm not sure I'd call that "unfortunate." I've said for ages that if we can just get more people to vote, it will be good for the democrats. Work the rise of MAGA, I've included that if we can get them to think before they vote, that will be even better.
You’re right.
IMO it's simpler than that. Overwhelmingly USAmerican political turnout is highest among those dissatisfied with the sitting administration. It's why we've had these 2-term party swaps, which became 1-term swaps after Trump-1; and is why Presidents tend to lose political power in Congress as their terms go on. That can change with an actually inspiring candidate (and I think Mamdani is that type, as was Bernie in 2016).
Generally though, if people are picking what they deem as a lesser evil, hate of the current administration is the main way to push them to action on Election Day.
Mamdani wasn't born in the US, so can't run for President
Haha, sucks to suck
Some think it's that Trump himself was not on the ballot? Trust me, he was on the ballot
Well he's perfectly allowed to quit his current office if he wants to run for mayor.
I mean, when he was on the ballot last time he did win. He has a way of drawing out his voters that luckily doesn't easily transfer to other Republicans.
You're missing the fact that Trump has done a LOT of damage to the country since he was elected. I think many of those ICE raids terrified the voters.
I feel like that stuff might be horrifying to most, it's exactly what his base wanted. I guess it might peel off the ones that just believed his economic 'message'.
Some think it's that Trump himself was not on the ballot?
Trump is the only one who thinks that
I've heard that 'lots of people' are saying it.
maybe krasnov thought he didn't need to rig this one
The republican party had been underperforming in all passed elections were Trump isn't in the ballot.
These losses are UNHEARD OF! WHY wouldn't People vote for the Party that allowed an Illegal Immigrant to Fire HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND of American Workers? It's INSANE People WOULDN"T vote for the Party that ELIMINATED Food Assistance Right before Thanksgiving! There's SOMETHING Fishy about the Party of KIDNAPPING CHILDREN WHILE PROTECTING JEFFREY EPSTEIN Losing SO much!
If you use caps lock instead of holding shift, especially for words with apostrophes, you'll avoid the full quotation mark you got in 'WOULDN"T'
The people won for now but it’s not a win win till we get these terrorist Trump supporters out. Need real people who give a fuck about people in office.
Seymour Skinner, being briefly self-reflective
Wait, the GOP was actually trying to win the VA governor’s race!? Coulda fooled me!
Maybe. Just maybe the left does not fracture quite as much when literally their backs against the wall.
Maybe but if they do manage to win going forward the absolutely must not let any one off the hook for all this bullshit.
If there is literally no witch hunt for the people responsible for all Trump's bullshit it will just happen again. All time ICE agents need to be made to think twice about what do because "just following orders" should not be a viable excuse.
You know, I bet they fumble this in the name of "unity".
I would love for Democrats to gain enough seats to both impeach and convict.
I think that's the only thing that can save us at this point.
We need to impeach Trump, Vance, Thomas, and Alito at the minimum.
We need to also pass a law that removes Thomas' and Alito's votes from any case they sat on.
All of their writings need to be stricken from the legal record. Not destroyed, but just redered legally null and void
Holy shit, I'd love to see that. I wish there were ways to reverse any pardon that came from this asshole as well.
Also, we'd need to get Bannon, Stephen Miller, Noem, Homan, Patel, Bondi, Gorka, Roger Stone, and I'm sure many others I'm forgetting right now into the pipeline to prison, ASAP. All of those fuckers are/were doing illegal shit and need to pay.
I agree. We have been letting things slip massively all millenium and we need to get back to individaul rights first and the government is expected to, yes, shocker. put in more effort than they expect from the people to do things correctly.
Perhaps, but you're assuming that old-fashioned Democrats won't be swept out of office too.
The thing is, define left. The American left can't make heads or tails on who gets to be "the left" and what they want. The progressives or the neoliberals? Both factions may believe in social justice, but they deviate from economic policies. One believes in taxing the rich, the other in insider trading. One wants to fight fascism, the other would rather see fascism win to keep his/her own economic privileges and the plebs be damned.
I don't think any people want insider trading. Thats plain old corruption and we have made laws to stop things like that before. Thing is we definately need to have republicans win so little that they become inconsequential.
maybe the left does not fracture quite as much when literally their backs against the wall.
The Left is used to being in disagreement.
And yet not a single one has the insight and clarity to realize that PEOPLE DON’T ACTUALLY FUCKING LIKE ANYTHING YOU DO
As long as their billionaire sugar daddies do, that's irrelevant.
No, it's because they don't care.
I swear news reports on the election results are way understated. They get barely a mention on my local stations which are not exactly maga strongholds.
How can they handle so much winning?
Wow yea I mean literally this entire administration belongs in prison for life but yeah a few wins are a start
I wouldn't call Mike Cernovitch a "personality" as such.
Keep up that winning strategy guys. ;)
Hate to see it.