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Looking at the numbers, it seems like apathy decided. Trump's numbers are equivalent to last election, but the Dems didn't show up by over ten million people.

• seanw444 2y ago
  > Dems didn't show up by over ten million people. It is a peculiar lack of votes, isn't it?
  • junto 2y ago
    Not really. The lack of votes seems to be in the younger “social media” generations. The lead up to polling day was very pro-Kamala and on polling day itself, sites like Reddit were a stream of “I voted Kamala” posts. Whether that was propaganda influenced or not is beside the point. What it seems to have done is convinced a subset of Kamala voters that they didn’t need to go and stand in a 2 hour queue to vote because it was already won, which of course now we know to be very untrue. People assume that the bot armies are only pumping out pro-Trump propaganda. However, they only need to convince the Dems not to vote.
• fuzzfactor 2y ago
  Yes, it was the non-voters who actually decided the election, and in only a few states too.
• usaar333 2y ago
  They are still counting votes. Prediction markets have turnout at about 64%, which is more like 5 million less. That's still historically high
  • DiggyJohnson 2y ago
    Sure, but Harris won’t come close to the 81M Biden got four years ago.