LuckyNumber7
Blue Crack Addict
Talk about absurd takes...
Black people, indigenous communities (see the exit polls of Navajo nation, for example) absolutely played a key role.
Black people showing up in droves to vote in no way explains the overperformance by Republican candidates for the Senate or the House, unless your take is that blacks showed up in large numbers to vote against Trump and then left the rest of the ballot blank. Which makes a whole lot of sense in MAINE where Collins won by 9 points.
I’m very confused with your post. It reads like you’re telling me off, but then agreeing with me also.
I’m not seeing this supposed over-performance of republican candidates. Susan Collins in not-black Maine isn’t a good example, but if you’re going to use that example then sure, to the point you just made... in a state where black voters could not show up en masse because they do not exist en masse, you did not see a republican beat down in an otherwise absolutely purple-blue state. To your question about people leaving the ballot blank, that plays a part in it for sure. In Maine, 3% of the voters in fact voted for president and not for senator. An additional 4.3% voted for a more liberal candidate for senate likely because of ranked voting. There were also 5x more write ins for senate than there were for president.
You’re seriously under-estimating how many people showed up for or against the president.
Otherwise though, we witnessed two candidates break voting records. In states like Georgia, the proof is in the pudding. They’re gerrymandered to hell. Atlanta and other black urban cities swung the state blue, but yet places like Augusta and Savannah which swung blue are both sitting in red districts for red congresspeople because that’s how Georgia “conveniently” has its districts drawn.
421,000 people in Georgia (just shy of 10% of voters) did not vote for their congressperson, in all likelihood because either they just showed up to vote for or against the president, or because they did not invest in their local elections either out of lack of knowledge or out of understanding that the districts are pretty much decided and are not competitive.
From Pew, just 4% of voters indicated a R/D split preference.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politic...-party-ticket-for-president-senate-and-house/
Again, where is this concept coming from that there were hearts and minds changed? This was two offenses going toe to toe, not some suburban revival of people who changed their mind about Donald Trump.