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Trump least popular newly elected president since Second World War – except for himself
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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He's the only President to never reach 50% approval, yet he's been elected twice.
That's all the evidence you need to know that our election system is broken.
The important thing to remember is that this doesn’t matter at all. If you’re a progressive who is overwhelmed by the state of affairs and looking for a hint of good news, this aint it.
This will affect nothing
The fact that even if all the non-voters voted for a mix of third parties, it would still net the same result under this system, tells you all you need to know about FPTP.
People really hate women presidential candidates apparently.
That must be it. No other lesson to be learnt.
Lol no. Studies have been done about this. The average voter doesn't give five shits if the candidate is a man or a woman.
3 chances at guessing what the average voter cares about.
Hint: it's not gender policies, pronouns or social culture wars
When the average voter doesn't give a damn either way while someone else cares deeply, but only in one direction, it makes the minority the most important demographic.
Let's say you have a choice between "A" and "1", and 98% of people don't care. But 2 percent care deeply and will vote based on the superiority of "A", while nobody votes based on their support of "1."
All else being equal, if one pay ignores the issue while the other adopts the platform of "A is great, and 1 is bad", the latter party will win the election.
That's how the GOP wins elections. They target single-issue voters: Gun nuts. Pro-lifers. Racists. Christian Nationalists. Relatively small groups that vote in lockstep without a significant equivalent group on the other side of the issue.
Sure: most people are pro-choice. But how many pro-choice Democrats would have changed their vote if Trump and Harris had opposite positions than reality on those issues but were otherwise identical? I certainly wouldn't have voted for Trump over it. But pro-life voters absolutely will change based on that single issue.
It's why every single time the Dems make that a central issue, they get slaughtered in the general election. Pro-choice Republicans simply don't prioritize the right to choose over everything else, so they keep voting red.
The Republicans are masters of finding and manufacturing single-issue voting groups that will vote against their own interests to achieve a goal the GOP doesn't actually care about.
Brilliant observation, thank you.
Your people are rock chewing stupid, that’s the big issue
As long as you need those "Rock chewing stupid" people to win an election, and you keep thinking of them as such, you will KEEP losing elections
Those "rock chewing stupid" people are LITERALLY American workers. You know, the people that for good or bad keep the country running?
And then democrats have the gall to call themselves the party of the worker man.
Pathetic