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Now that we have final numbers. It appears that Harris had all the white & black support she needed for an EC victory. But Trump outright flipping Latino men and making huge gains with Latino women seems to have made all the difference.

What do you think?

First image is 2024, second is 2020.

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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 10 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

So the solution to not liking the democrat shift right is to join in with the side off the scale right? I'm not following the logic there...

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 19 points 4 weeks ago

Populist messaging is popular because it acknowledges that people are suffering and offers easy "solutions" to it.

Most folks don't actually want to hear the details, they're both busy and don't fucking understand it without the benefits of a educational system that has been systemically destroyed for decades.

Trump said he'll fix the economy and blamed Biden, Harris wanted to pretend that the lines went up so things were good because she was effectively burdened as an incumbent candidate.

Harris decentivized her base of support by chasing Lucy's football of Republicans that aren't fucking fascists, going after the Cheney votes of all fucking things, Trump siphoned votes from people that don't quite know how to fix the problem but know there is a problem.

You can point to Harris's specific policies all you want, the people you need to get to the polls and vote for you don't know about them because they're boring.

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

A lot of Latinos are fairly conservative people, a lot of them are strongly Catholic with all of the baggage that comes with it, etc.

Basically the only major policy reason they ever leaned towards the democrats is immigration, so with the Dems going further right on immigration it makes a lot of sense for some of them to be jumping ship

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not proposing a "solution" here, but the logic is obvious: as the Democratic Party moves to the right, their traditional base becomes more alienated and less incentivized to vote.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 0 points 4 weeks ago

I didn't mean that you where, but if the Latino population shifted their votes more R this year it seems an odd explanation that they where offended by the democrats shifting right on policies. If that was the case then why would they go in with people who are even more to the right?

I think this whole question needs another field to it for the turnout difference. It may be (not to keep picking on Latinos but) they made up 5% in 2020 and 6% in 2024, but is that of all eligible voters, or of those that actually showed up? If 1/2 showed up last time and 1/3 did this time, but the ones who showed up where the more conservative portion then it would look like they 'shifted' right, but it wouldn't be real.

[–] peppers_ghost@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

Why go with republican-light if the real thing exists? Catering to the center and right wing as Democrats is off-putting to basically everyone except libs