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Exit polls, especially in Michigan, seem to disagree with this.
by lanternfish 2y ago
Exit polls, especially in Michigan, seem to disagree with this.
- halfmatthalfcat 2y agoWayne County was never going to be the lynch pin of the election and even so, exit polling is notoriously fickle. If we're taking exit polling at face value, across the country the economy was #1 followed by preserving democracy and immigration. Geopolitics is probably at the bottom of the top 10 nationally.
- knodi 2y agoDearborn alone voted 50% for Trump, 22% for Jill and 28% for Harris. Thats 50-100k votes right there. A clear message and an axe to the foot of Palestine.
- halfmatthalfcat 2y agoLooking at the Dearborn results[1], it looks like Jill pulled 10k votes at 20%. That's not winning MI. [1] https://dearborn.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/UNOFFICIAL%20Results_Nov%205%202024%20Presidential%20Election%20-%20ALL%20-%20ELECTION%20DAY_City%20of%20Dearborn.pdf https://dearborn.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/UNOFFICIAL%...
- lanternfish 2y agoNo, but you have to consider that the voted-for-jill-stein signal is considerably dampened from the didn't-vote-for-harris-because-of-Palestine signal; most of those people just wouldn't vote at all
- aguaviva 2y agoSounds more than plausible, and indeed likely. It's also quite possible that Biden's gaffe in calling Trump supporters "garbage", on its own, dinged Harris's campaign more than all the fallout from the Israel-Gaza conflict. Just to give a sense of what really moves the needle in American politics.