• pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      3 days ago

      Nah its still worth talking about, because it was the swing voters that won the election for Trump.

      Comparing 2020 to 2024:

      • White voters swung 1% increasing their vote to 56%
      • Black voters doubled their vote (wtf) from 8% to 16%.
      • Latino voters also increased their vote 8% (wtf) from 35% to 43%
      • Even ‘all other races’ increased their vote from 39% to 41%.

      So ‘wtf were these people thinking, voting for the leopard that says their particular faces are the most delicious?’ is a completely fair question to raise.

      https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/interactive-how-key-groups-of-americans-voted-in-2024-according-to-ap-votecast

      • Wes4Humanity@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I wish we could see actual number of votes cast by each at m demographic… These stats could also be explained by the lower turnout, not necessarily more people voting for Trump in each demographic.

        I.e.
        2020: 8 Trump, 12 Biden=60% for Biden… 2024: 8 Trump, 4 Kamala= 33% Kamala Trump still got the same number of votes but it looks like he “doubled” his support