Election Thread II: Kamala vs. Trump

[Del]

Massive, record-breaking voter turn-out.

Normally, very high turn-out favors Democrats. Not this time.

Trump even won the nation-wide popular vote, thus far.

A few states are still counting, but it looks like Trump will have the popular vote. This is astounding.

[Del]

A cute little polling factoid:

Among voters who agreed that "Democracy is threatened in America".... Trump won those voters by a 7% margin.

[ChildOfGod]

Something I wonder about, which is really just a thought exercise that relates a bit to my experience...

I vividly recall, as a young man, circa 1990, Desert Storm being launched. I and all of my friends were thinking that a draft may ensue and we might be looking at battlefield military service. It was a real possibility in the early days.

Present day, we support Ukraine in its war against Russia, and presently N. Korea is sending boots on the ground into Ukraine.

I know Trump's victory is owed in part to young men, and I know Trump does not support American boots on the ground in Ukraine.

What I wonder is... in the young man's mind... did a vote for Trump seem life saving; as if keeping himself off of the battlefield in Ukraine?

It's a bit fringe, and perhaps far fetched, but I wonder.

[Del]

Something I wonder about, which is really just a thought exercise that relates a bit to my experience...

I vividly recall, as a young man, circa 1990, Desert Storm being launched. I and all of my friends were thinking that a draft may ensue and we might be looking at battlefield military service. It was a real possibility in the early days.

Present day, we support Ukraine in its war against Russia, and presently N. Korea is sending boots on the ground into Ukraine.

I know Trump's victory is owed in part to young men, and I know Trump does not support American boots on the ground in Ukraine.

What I wonder is... in the young man's mind... did a vote for Trump seem life saving; as if keeping himself off of the battlefield in Ukraine?

It's a bit fringe, and perhaps far fetched, but I wonder.

I'm gonna say that Trump voters were excited toward his demonstrated ability to negotiate for world peace and corral the bad actors (Russia, China, Iran) with sanctions.

Since we don't have boots on the ground in hot battle zones, I rather doubt that any Trump supporters were afraid of being drafted.

But maybe (I have no idea) there were some threads on Reddit among Democrat demographic types who were fearful of the wars that Kamala would awkwardly fall into. It would be curious to find out.

[SlowToke]

I'm just wondering where the 20 million votes Biden got in 2020. The excitement around this election seems exponentially greater than 2020 yet less votes. Makes you say hmmmm.


Also, how on earth did Trump get significantly more votes than Kari Lake?

And why can't Arizona get their count in like almost every other state in the US?

Also, why is it that the states the Democrats won are only states with no voter ID?

There is still a ton of irregularities that need to be answered and fixed in order for me to ever believe our elections are free and fair. I think Trump supporters just made it too big to steal and Lara Trump and the RNC was all over it like hawks in most places and there were known attempts to cheat that were thwarted by the hundreds of thousands of votes.

Drain that swamp! Let's go!