• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    “The popular vote means nothing” is just as fucking stupid as thinking the popular vote means an automatic victory.

    It apparently means a lot to you. I’m not sure why. It means jack shit in a US presidential election.

    useless places like fucking California

    If this is how you talk about states that went the way you wanted them to, I’m starting to think you’re just an angry person who is angry at everything. Have you considered therapy?

    is generally a national shift, resulting in state majorities or pluralities shifting.

    You’re acting like trump didn’t lose the popular vote and win the election last time and I’m not sure why you’re doing that because he did.

    If you think that a 2% shift in the national vote was impossible and beyond the realm of reason, to the point of characterizing it as Harris not having a chance, you’re out of your fucking gourd.

    I think a 2% shift in the national vote would have been irrelevant because, as we’ve covered already, the popular vote doesn’t decide the race.

    Harris lost Arizona by 5 points, North Carolina by 3 points, Nevada by 5 points, Pennsylvania by 3 points, Ohio by 11 points, Florida by 11 points. If 2% more people voted for Harris nationwide the result would be a trump presidency with a slightly smaller difference in the popular vote for you to seethe about.

    Harris didn’t have a chance. Know how I know? Because she fucking lost.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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      17 days ago

      It means jack shit in a US presidential election.

      Lord.

      If this is how you talk about states that went the way you wanted them to, I’m starting to think you’re just an angry person who is angry at everything. Have you considered therapy?

      … we’re literally discussing strategy right now. Running up votes in a safe state is fucking useless. For someone who’s beating their chest about how ‘realistic’ they’re being, that’s an awfully simple thing to miss.

      You’re acting like trump didn’t lose the popular vote and win the election last time and I’m not sure why you’re doing that because he did.

      Where am I pretending that? Feel free to quote me, genius.

      Harris lost Arizona by 5 points, North Carolina by 3 points, Nevada by 5 points, Pennsylvania by 3 points, Ohio by 11 points, Florida by 11 points. If 2% more people voted for Harris nationwide the result would be a trump presidency with a slightly smaller difference in the popular vote for you to seethe about.

      She lost Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia all by ~2%. Winning Pennsylvania (48.6% vs. 50.3%) and 2 of the other 3 would have given her victory. Sorry that you’re so ill-informed, but I understand that masturbatory cynicism is preferable to folk like you over actual analysis of events.

      Harris didn’t have a chance. Know how I know? Because she fucking lost.

      … what fucking bizarre circular logic.