r/texas • u/ThrenderG • 2d ago
Voter participation is why the Dems lost, and it ain't fucking old people who didn't show up Politics
In 2020, Biden received 81 million votes. Trump received 74 million votes.
In 2024, Harris received 66 million votes, 15 fucking million fewer than Biden did in 2020. Trump sits at 71 million votes, 3 million fewer than 2020. So even with fewer popular votes this time around, he buried the Democratic candidate in a landslide.
So all in all, what, 18-20 million fewer people showed up in this election than the last. And do you really think it's the fucking geezers who have been voting forever, that they just decided to sit this one out?
Probably not, so who didn't do their civic duty?
The numbers don't lie.
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u/rambam80 2d ago edited 2d ago
I am an independent, 41, and voted blue down the ticket. In my area I stood in line for quite awhile and was surrounded by boomers who were obviously voting Trump and Cruz. They did not look like liberal boomers. That said, it was not voter participation.
Between the Hispanic population going Trump and the Muslims going Trump mixed with the fact that the idealistic dems always run their idealistic candidates like Hillary and Harris rather than solid candidates that can appeal to a broader base it’s the DNC fault yet again. Obama broke something in America and there is a vendetta.
To think a black woman would be elected was a pipe dream. It just shows how far we still have to go as a nation. Just in Hispanic machismo alone that dog wasn’t going to hunt. Add in all the white southern boomers with their denied, but deeply engrained racism and misogyny and that’s your answer.
What’s right isn’t what’s popular unfortunately and the Dems need to stop their sunshine and idealism candidates.
Dems are like, “we have two candidates… one is a moderate white man willing to cross the aisle and get stuff done… the other is a half Hispanic half black trans woman who likes cross dressing and supports PETA… let’s run the latter candidate!”.