Official BearInsider Election Day Thread

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dimitrig
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So voter turnout was actually low?

I haven't seen the numbers but someone told me Kamala and Trump drew fewer voters than in 2020 during COVID. Seems hard to believe. Did I hear incorrectly?
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In reply to chazzed • 2:28p
chazzed said:
Congrats! You're gonna lose your Social Security, but at least you helped Elon Musk add another $100 billion to his fortune.

A quarter trillion spent on the Ukraine war, and nothing to show for except for a half million new graves.
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In reply to dimitrig • 2:35p
dimitrig said:

So voter turnout was actually low?

I haven't seen the numbers but someone told me Kamala and Trump drew fewer voters than in 2020 during COVID. Seems hard to believe. Did I hear incorrectly?
It's low compared to 2020, but 2020 was super high. Seems like this one is more in line with a typical Presidential year.
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2:35p
Sad thread. Zero introspection or self-reflection. Scorched earth as usual. And then they wonder why we are so polarized.
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In reply to chazzed • 2:37p
Don't forget the $75 BILLION in TARIFFS that will cost the average American family $2,500 a year.
"Cults don't end well. They really don't."
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3:09p
Yessir! Trump!
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In reply to dimitrig • 3:25p
dimitrig said:

So voter turnout was actually low?

I haven't seen the numbers but someone told me Kamala and Trump drew fewer voters than in 2020 during COVID. Seems hard to believe. Did I hear incorrectly?
As of maybe an hour ago Trump had 1M fewer votes than 2020 as of a few hours ago Harris had @14M fewer votes than 2020 Biden.
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3:30p
pretty good 3min tubey on pres results..
muting more than 300 handles, turnaround is fair play
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We are at about 74M / 68M - 142M votes cast today
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In reply to smh • 3:44p
and who is tubey's Trae Crowder, nobody asked..
> As of August 2020, his videos have garnered more than 17 million cumulative views on Youtube. After his Liberal Redneck videos went viral, he appeared in numerous media outlets, including MSNBC and The Huffington Post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trae_Crowder
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In reply to smh • 4:03p
smh said:
pretty good 3min tubey on pres results..
I like that guy. He speaks rapidly like Vivek Ramaswamy but, unlike Ramaswamy, he is not criminally insane.
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In reply to smh • 4:53p
smh said:
pretty good 3min tubey on pres results..


Thank you for that!!!
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5:33p
sorry if this was already mentioned, above, but fwiw the house still turns blue iff at least six of the remaining R leading races go BLUE instead. for the most frequently updated standings see the allegedly free to all nytimes tracker below..
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/06/us/elections/results-house-races-tracker.html
# both thumbs crossed loooongshot, from just ~20K votes behind
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In reply to smh • 5:33p
"People are gonna die." Quite the analysis. His schtick is clearly putting a redneck facade on authoritarian leftist propaganda so that authoritarian leftists can say to themselves, "I'm so virtuous, I can even find common cause with a redneck."
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Bernie Sanders blasts the Dem party for abandoning the worker class.

(As if Trump embraced them, does anything for them, other than deceive them. Pfft.)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bernie-sanders-blasts-democratic-party-233556801.html
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In reply to concordtom • 5:41p
concordtom said:
Bernie Sanders blasts the Dem party for abandoning the worker class.
^ shrugs
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In reply to sycasey • 5:47p
sycasey said:
dimitrig said:

So voter turnout was actually low?

I haven't seen the numbers but someone told me Kamala and Trump drew fewer voters than in 2020 during COVID. Seems hard to believe. Did I hear incorrectly?
It's low compared to 2020, but 2020 was super high. Seems like this one is more in line with a typical Presidential year.


Why was 2020 super high? With this election being so
close you would think turnout would be higher than average. Why did so many stay home this time?


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In reply to concordtom • 5:59p
concordtom said:
Bernie Sanders blasts the Dem party for abandoning the worker class.
I mean, this is pretty much what Bernie always does.
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In reply to DiabloWags • 6:06p
DiabloWags said:
Don't forget the $75 BILLION in TARIFFS that will cost the average American family $2,500 a year.
I'm more worried that we're paying a Trillion in interest payments on our 35 Trillion in debt.
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In reply to Zippergate • 8:21p
Zippergate said:
Sad thread. Zero introspection or self-reflection. Scorched earth as usual. And then they wonder why we are so polarized.

Polarized between truth and lies.
You represent and/or support the latter.
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In reply to dimitrig • 8:24p
dimitrig said:

So voter turnout was actually low?


My friend in Spain texted me on Tuesday morning:

"It's dificult that a woman wins the elections for the first time in the USA history"

People not motivated to bother voting for a woman. Sad, but true.
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In reply to concordtom • 8:29p
So we should vote for a woman just because she's a woman. Got it.
Btw, what is a woman? I figured I'd ask you that given your penchant for sentimentality and emotionally driven thinking.
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In reply to tequila4kapp • 8:33p
tequila4kapp said:
dimitrig said:
sycasey said:
dimitrig said:
SBGold said:
bear2034 said:
It does seem like he will win the popular vote as well.


Unbelievable. Did people just stay home or what? What has the turnout been?
Turnout is high. This is what people wanted.

We need to reckon with what is happening here: Trump is winning because he's improved his margins with various racial minorities (not winning them outright, but doing better). It's not enough to just complain about racism or whatever anymore.

Now I kind of do think a lot of this is Trump-specific. Not sure another Republican would be doing so well here. But he has as kind of weird charisma that just works.


How do you have a guy that lost the popular vote twice come back and win it after having done nothing but complain he was cheated for four years? And he is more popular than ever? Even people in his own party came out against him. Makes no sense.

I said it leading up to tonight - D's need to take a seriously hard look in the mirror. Trump is wildly popular with a segment of the population, but not 50% of it. What happened tonight is 15-20% of people decided D policies were worse than Trump's personality / behavior.

What happened last night was those 15-20% people you are referring to realized they were being lied to by the media all this time.
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In reply to dimitrig • 8:37p
dimitrig said:

So voter turnout was actually low?

I haven't seen the numbers but someone told me Kamala and Trump drew fewer voters than in 2020 during COVID. Seems hard to believe. Did I hear incorrectly?
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