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Looking at the numbers, it seems like apathy decided. Trump's numbers are equivalent to last election, but the Dems didn't show up by over ten million people.


Yes, it was the non-voters who actually decided the election, and in only a few states too.


> Dems didn't show up by over ten million people.

It is a peculiar lack of votes, isn't it?


Not really. The lack of votes seems to be in the younger “social media” generations. The lead up to polling day was very pro-Kamala and on polling day itself, sites like Reddit were a stream of “I voted Kamala” posts. Whether that was propaganda influenced or not is beside the point.

What it seems to have done is convinced a subset of Kamala voters that they didn’t need to go and stand in a 2 hour queue to vote because it was already won, which of course now we know to be very untrue.

People assume that the bot armies are only pumping out pro-Trump propaganda. However, they only need to convince the Dems not to vote.


They are still counting votes. Prediction markets have turnout at about 64%, which is more like 5 million less.

That's still historically high


Sure, but Harris won’t come close to the 81M Biden got four years ago.




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