My guess is there will not be a Congressional election this year

https://lemmy.world/post/44266548

It’s important to not feel over confident. That leads to less turn out because people think their victory is already secured without them participating.
Both times we lost I met so many who were like “well I didn’t think he would” who didn’t even bother to go to the polls.

Both times the problem wasn’t voters were overconfident though…

Both times voters just didn’t like the Dem candidates, and the Dem candidates operated under the assumption they were safe enough to just scream at anyone who wasn’t 100% positive about two candidates with zero combined charisma and far to the right of their own voter bases

You can’t just order voters to fake enthusiasm.

If you want enthusiastic voters you have to let them have a candidate you like.

Which is why last year the DNC appointed a chair who will let fair primaries happen again…

Agree, but then by not voting they allowed the worse of the two to get in.

Yeah…

But if you’re blaming voters you’re using the same neoliberal logic that even the DNC realized wasn’t working…

I actually use Voyager and swiped too far. But hey, that is. You can keep it, and this new one.

Suuuuure.

Has nothing to do with you making simping for a billionaire your main personality trait.

Taylor swift cares as much about you as trump cares about his voters or Bill Gates cares about a random windows user.

Obviously it was an accident and you not willing to sacrifice the rest of us so Tay Tay can get a 17th plane.

Have fun, I’m sure if you keep doing it she may wave at you from 200 yards away some day.

weirdly personal attack, but k.

People don’t vote that way. Nor should they.

They will vote for a candidate who listens to them and is willing to fight for them. They’ll vote for somebody who addresses their concerns and will get them what they need. This is Politics 101.

shouldn’t, but I’ve had too many elections under this system to ever expect a candidate like that :/
Have you done anything to get a candidate like that?
So a unicorn candidate
It’s like the bare minimum. Again, Politics 101.
You live in a fantasy world
Well you should not have first past the post voting because it is a ridiculous failed alpha test of democracy but if you insist on it you have to act within the constraints.
Anyone who looked at the two options and “wasnt inspired enough to vote” doesnt think Trump is that bad.

Harris was selling out multiple stadiums for her campaign. Just because she personally didn’t check every single box that leftists on here have, they stayed home.

And now we have a Nazi president, because these people weren’t happy with 30-40-50% of what they probably wanted, so they get nothing instead.

Harris was selling out multiple stadiums for her campaign.

Why didn’t she win then?

Just because she personally didn’t check every single box that leftists on here have, they stayed home.

They shouldn’t have stayed home. They should’ve voted for Jill Stein or Cornel West.

Should have voted for the Russian agent Jill Stein? Yeah sure thanks for telling everyone you’re not a serious person.

While that’s a narrative that sounds nice and reassuring, the data is more depressing than that.

The percentage of voting eligible people that actually came out for the election in 2024 was second only to 2020 since they’ve tracked VEP, and I think we can all agree 2020 had a whole lot of special circumstances. The easiest election ever to cast a ballot in, under the most duress the citizens have known, with folks having plenty of spare time to vote. It enjoyed an anomolous high turnout but those circumstances evaporated by 2024.

The last time we saw arguably higher turnout other than 2020 was the 1960s.

We did not have some anomolous low turnout in 2024 to blame, the fairly typical voting turnout actively preferred this…

No we had a stolen election. There’s ample proof of that.
Did you ask them why they didn’t go?
Yup, got the same answer is all of the ones here. And the worse candidate was elected.