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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you look at the voters who voted for the dem in 2020 and sat out this time it was almost all older white men

Jill Stein won 22% of the vote in the fiercely contested city of Dearborn, Michigan, according to a projection from NBC.

Kamala Harris won 28%, while Donald Trump won 47%, according to unofficial results from the city clerk, reported by the network.

Metro Detroit is home to the nation's largest concentration of Arab Americans, with a large proportion of them living in Dearborn. The city—which Democrat Joe Biden won by a 3-to-1 margin in 2020—has been roiled by political turmoil, with many upset with the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the Israel-Hamas war.

[–] SquatDingloid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Third party canidates did not receive enough votes to sway anything this election.

If every third party voter voted dem nothing would be different

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Third party canidates did not receive enough votes to sway anything this election.

The biggest spike was in non-voters. Around 16M - overwhelmingly Dems - stayed home between 2020 and 2024.

Dems were successful in scaring voters off the Green Party. Greens got 1.4M voters in 2016 and a mere 636k voters in 2024.

But that was just a tiny slice of the overall atrophy of progressive support.

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