Essentially, there have been two reactions over on grad today:

  1. I didn’t vote, neither of the candidates were going to stop the war in the Gaza Strip, therefore, there could be no good outcome for the US, therefore I can’t be held accountable
  2. I voted for a third party, which Republicans will have to acknowledge and respect
  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    8 days ago

    Regarding third parties, leftists like to claim this giant reservoir of support just if Democrats listened to them, but they never show up in an election at all. Jill Stein and other leftist candidates didn’t win even a percent of the vote. Trump won an outright majority of the popular vote.

    Why listen to a group that’s just a blip?

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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      8 days ago

      that and anything done is never enough so they are still going to teach them a lesson till they do enough, which again nothing is ever enough.

      • fleabomber@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        Like, didn’t Democrats actually get a lot done through a challenging Congress? The IRA is good and they’re handing off a just about recovered economy.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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      8 days ago

      Exactly. There’s not much split vote because people listened, there’s no record low turnout from the looks of it so far, Democrats is set to lose no matter what because majority of american went out and voted for trump. Lefties always twist the fact to fit their view.

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        7 days ago

        There literally is, though. Trump got nearly the same level of votes as in 2020, but Harris got over 10 million fewer votes than Biden. That’s objectively decreased turnout.