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The majority of White women voted for him 53% to 45% (not sure what percent of those are in the evangelical christian demographic).

Women overall voted against him 53% to 45%. Funny how those numbers were the exact opposite. Anyway it was a smaller margin than Dems were hoping/expecting from women.

source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls

No of course I can't blame them because it's the only thing that makes sense to do. That's what I saying. I blame the people who won't vote for Dems if they don't perfectly align with everything they want or don't pass their purity test.

Magats took over the Republican party because they consistently voted for whichever R won the primary, even if it wasn't the one they wanted to win the primary. R's have always done this, but Magats especially have been turning out to do this since 2008 when gasp! the Black guy won (they started out as the Tea party). On top of that they did a lot of activism. Parading around with their guns was the part they liked best about that. They took a name for their movement; the TEA (taxed enough already) party was a stupid name and they looked like idiots with their teabags, but it worked for them and they eventually got their demagogue.

The Democratic party can be moved to the left with this same strategy. Vote for the more left-leaning or whoever you like best in the primary, then vote for whoever has the D by their name in the general. When they learn that they can actually count on getting enough votes from their base, they'll stop futilely chasing votes from the right. At the same time you have to do activism and keep the movement growing, which makes sure they clearly know what you want and creates pressure to influence their policies. You don't give up after one election cycle because it takes time and work..

Ceding your power by not voting doesn't make politicians care about you--it's not like boycotting a business that wants to sell you something. Politicians want to please those who vote for them, not those who don't. Learn from the magats. First you put the politicians closer to your views into power, then keep pressuring them to enact the policies you want. Not sit around and wait for them to enact the agenda you want first and after that you'll vote for them. Think about how training a dog works.

Same, late Tuesday night.

In order of who got what they wanted:

Men

White christian nationalist men and women

Latino men

Young men

Basically, men and brainwashed women who believe they should be subservient to them.

Ah, I see. Thanks, I just needed to scroll down a little.

A lot of those white women are Christian evangelicals salivating to install the Christian Theocracy. It's sad & infuriating. I'm seeing clips of interviews with swing staters of various demographics who voted for him. They're all like, "It's gonna be great, the stock market's gonna go up 40%, gas prices will go down by half! All those ads about him doing bad things are lies."

According to your link it looks like it was the other way around, women were 53% Harris and 45% trump. Assuming that's what the blue and red bars mean.

If it was just the fact of a two party system, why did it take over 200 years to do it?

That's exactly it. It's hard to admit that almost half the voting population is totally on board with trump--his "flaws" are not a bug, they're a feature. He increased the size of his base, bringing in millions of Latinos, Gen Z men, and men of all races. It's not that they simply hate the Dems, it's that they love what trump is offering. In spite of that it there did exist enough more voters that don't like trump (it would have taken 5 million more) to stop him, but they either didn't give a shit or they wanted it to happen (to "punish" the dems). That's the reality.

Yep, every time Dems can't get enough votes from the left to win, because they aren't "left/pure enough" for them, what they learn is to shift to the right to find votes.

Whereas since voters on the right will always vote for the one with the R by their name even if they don't think the candidate is "right enough", their party learns that it doesn't have to move to the left to find enough votes and stays to the right or moves even further to the right.

Can these people just have their rapture already and leave us to get on with our lives?

I suspect the main purpose of those laws was to handle the increasing problem of elder abuse.

There's no reason to assume the troopers in the meme are supposed represent the Democratic Party? Could be a magat or maybe his owner Putin petting him in that meme.