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Now that we have final numbers. It appears that Harris had all the white & black support she needed for an EC victory. But Trump outright flipping Latino men and making huge gains with Latino women seems to have made all the difference.

What do you think?

First image is 2024, second is 2020.

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[–] sith@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Kamala lost because the policies of the Democrats suck for working class people. And the Democrats are in general corrupt as fuck. It's as simple as that. Just as in Russia, if the system is super corrupt, better make it explicit by making corruption THE system. USA has been an oligarchy for quite some time. Trump 2.0 just made it explicit.

[–] starbrite@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

Ever cosider that there's a reason why the latinos moved to the right?

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Decades of under-education could only lead to shit. But even for a cynical asshole.like me, your country electing the best friend of the most notorious pedo, after he tried to overtake the previous election is quite something.

[–] BadmanDan@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

The culture war means more than that.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Democrats failed to solve people's issues. That's just it.

But Americans are in for a hard awakening if they think that in general Latin American population is progressive or left leaning. And that democrats have their guaranteed vote.

Each person is different, of course. And the average doesn't change any person individual values.

But on average Latin American countries tend to have overwhelming conservative cultures when compared with USA/Europe.

This doesn't negate any Latin American person who is progressive, of course. Just talking about averages and the reality that was shown by the polls.

In general Democrats, and any left leaning party, think that because they defend immigrants, immigrants will support them by default. This has been shown far from the truth. If someone have conservative values they will probably vote for a conservative party. That's just it. One person won't become progressive (as in stopping being sexist or transphobic) just because they moved from one country to another. An immigrant is a whole person with their own sets of values, both before and after they migrate, and won't be reduced to "being an immigrant" when voting, specially once they are legally settled in a place and their residence won't be at risk, they will just vote for their values. If they have conservative values they'll vote conservative if they have progressive values they'll vote progressive.

[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

Many legal immigrants get pissed if you conflate them with illegal immigrants. They try very hard distance themselves from those people. Couple that with pervasive machismo and Catholic ignorance and this is what you get.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 17 hours ago

Actually beautiful comment. Thank you.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

I don't think you can answer that question from those numbers. They are percentages. The difference they make depends a lot on the total population in each group.

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Kamala Harris lost cause she's female. And didn't ~~lie~~ promise (that much) to voters. And had the richest 0.5% of US voters against her. This is cause the oldest wannabe-democracy of the world lost his state long ago.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 day ago
[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Kamala lost because the Dems didn't show up. Again. Look at the number of votes for 2020 vs 2024. All those "undecided" and "obstainers" that didn't just stay home. They didn't bother doing a mail in.

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[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's really unclear, to me, what these tables are even saying. What's each column?

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[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These are national statistics. They bear no direct relation to the outcome.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They do, because no state exists in a vacuum.

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

43 states and one district didn't matter this time.
Only seven states mattered.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

They all affect each other even when the electoral count make them seemingly unimportant.

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Because whatever happens on the national level affects what happens on the state level.

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

I think you have it backwards. The national statistics are a result of what happens on the state level in aggregate.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 12 points 1 day ago (7 children)

The Dems would have won if they ran a campaign relevant to the struggling and apprehensive. They didn't. They lost.

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[–] Revonult@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

White people voting for the right is the problem. Like how can we go on here and blame Latinos for shifting when such a high percentage of white people voted for him? Especially when you factor in the population size and not just % left or right.

I am ashamed of my peers.

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, only around 2-3% of the white voters switching Dem would make up for the extra Latinos voting for Trump. On the other hand, blaming the voter instead of candidate is missing the point.

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[–] bear@lemmynsfw.com 22 points 2 days ago

Whole thread full of people blaming an entire race and sex whether that's Latinos, Latino men, Whites, or White men. You ask a stupid question and you get stupid answers.

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