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.

  • @enbyecho@lemmy.world
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    1128 days ago

    I know! Let’s blame EVERYBODY. That way nobody is left out and we can just admit we ALL fucked up so next time we can constructively work together to NOT fuck up instead of slinging mud at each other for the next four years.

    • @jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      not gonna happen. harris supporters still think genociding and massive wealth inequalities are okay. dems have lost my vote nationally until they start supporting labor and stop fucking warmongering.

        • @jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          You really dont. I’ve been expecting this for almost an entire year now. Only way to fix the dems is to toss them in the trash at this point.

          • @enbyecho@lemmy.world
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            227 days ago

            Only way to fix the dems is to toss them in the trash at this point.

            Right because when something’s broken you don’t fix it, you just throw it away.

            Good luck with the alternative.

            • @jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              Yes, that’s what you do when the effort required to fix something is more than the effort to replace it. And only thing I need to do to replace the DNC is just let it continue doing its stupid shit and people will continue to abandon it opening the path to other options.

                • @jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  No? I’ll simply continue voting for good people (when they run) and telling dweebs like yourself why their candidate is still fucking trash as usual. eventually it’ll sink it. In no way is refusing to support the democratic party due to current behavior a statement about no longer being politically active.

                  But based on current trends looks like the DNC is probably done nationally unless they actually have a come to jesus moment as a group which based on past behavior is terribly unlikely.

        • @jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          lol, I already took the red pill ages ago. I’m just done exploring the rabbit hole, either people wake up or they dont. I’ll pay just enough attention to know when i need to be there to push but otherwise meh. the DNC and its supporters are just not worth helping anymore.

  • Monkey With A Shell
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    4029 days ago

    Need some titles on those columns. I’m guessing red/blue are the usual party colors, but what is the 3rd?

    The biggest factor really is disengagement. There where millions who where involved in 2020 that just skipped out this time.

  • Rhynoplaz
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    Only 4% of Latino men shifted. That chart says Latino men were 5% of the total vote. Harris needed more than another .02%

    • @db2@lemmy.world
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      Quiet you, it has to be our fault. There’s just no way he got someone with satellite network access to fuck with the numbers while everyone got distracted by an unusually large number of bomb threats specifically in the swing states.

    • @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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      I think you’re getting confused by the column placement. This appears to be a 19 point shift towards Trump which seems substantial.

      • Rhynoplaz
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        Yup… You’re right. 19% of 5% is 0.95%.

        Much more, but not enough to tip the scales.

    • Aatube
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      The 1st and 2nd columns swap between the elections.

  • @1uname@lemmy.world
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    what’s the source of the ‘final numbers’ because they do not agree with what i have been able to find? and how can they be final when no one knows how any individual voted?

    • hendrik
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      Agreed. Despite all the nuances (which are important, too)… Judging by this table, the biggest total blame is on white men, followed by white women and latino men, though there aren’t that many of them. But I feel i need to say this doesn’t have anything to do with ethnicity. You could also make a chart of city vs rural areas or several other factors and you’d probably also find interesting correlations and shifts in opinion.

      • @WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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        Latines now make up 20% of the U.S. population, making them the largest minority group. Among the under-18 demographic, that number climbs to nearly 30%. If current population trends hold, Latines are poised to become the largest ethnic group in the country within about 25 years—that’s just three presidential terms away.

        While Latines are a minority ethnicity, they are the largest one and the second-fastest growing, trailing only Asians. Asians, despite having one of the lowest birth rates, experience the highest proportional rate of immigration. Notably, Trump gained 12% of the Asian vote in the most recent election, a trend across these growing demographics that, if sustained, could spell significant gains for Republicans in the future.

        However, let’s not overlook the broader electoral picture. Black, Asian, and Latine men and women combined make up about 29% of the voting public in presidential elections, while white women alone account for a staggering 37-38%. For context, Latino men represent just 5-6% of voters. White women are, by far, the largest voting demographic.

        Interestingly, Trump increased his share of all women by 7% compared to when he ran against Biden and has increased his support from women each time he’s ran. The devastating thing, I think, is that Trump won 13% more of the 18-29-year-olds, 5% more of 30-44-year-olds, and continues to capture “Boomer Lite,” aka Gen X, a majority of whom he has won each time he’s ran, but he increased his share by 9% this time.

        Edit: corrected an earlier data error.

        • @BadmanDan@lemmy.worldOP
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          Dude where are you getting your data? Trump won white women by 52% in 2016.

          If he had lost white women like you posted, he would’ve lost the election.

          • @WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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            Hmm. An article quoting Pew: “a majority of white women (53 percent) did vote for Trump in the 2024 presidential election, up from 44 percent in 2020 and 39 percent in 2016 per Pew.”

            but I think you’re right, those numbers sound like all women. I’ll edit the post.

    • Pennomi
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      2229 days ago

      With how thin our election margins are, I wonder if literally just misogynists can swing the election. Would 1 in 100 Americans refuse to vote for a woman for president? I think maybe yes.

      • @FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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        It’s hard to separate out the factors. Would a man have also struggled with a campaign starting so late (and doing so poorly in a previous primary). Would a white women? How can we separate out the influence of race, sex and the less than ideal running circumstances.

        Given who she is, and running when she had to, she actually did pretty damn well.

        Tbh looking for blame beyond Biden seems pointless to me. She has every sign of having been able to win over more people had she been prepped as the nominee from the start…

  • @Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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    3929 days ago

    “Are we out of touch with our core voters?”

    “No, it’s the voters who are wrong”.

    This will probably be how the Democrats regroup after the loss.

  • @El_guapazo@lemmy.world
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    The fact that any group aside from white men voted for trumpism is the issue. The disconnect was the complicit main stream media sane washing the craziness. They put racism/homophobia/fascism on the same level as Harris’ policies.

    • @zbyte64@awful.systems
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      Idk, white folks voting for Trump is an issue if you ask me, a white guy. Too many white folks sane washing his shit. Morning Joe went from “he’s a fascist” to “let’s put out differences aside”. Other whities need to realize this is a grift that will likely kill your own.

    • NaibofTabr
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      2529 days ago

      I object!

      White men voting for trumpism is also the issue.

      • @niucllos@lemm.ee
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        For sure, though I get the op point that at least Trump pretends to promise them something unlike every other group

  • @edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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    To actually answer the post title you’d have to go state by state in the swing states to see if she could flip enough of them to make a difference. I suspect the bigger problem is still lack of turnout rather than any specific demographic.

  • @solrize@lemmy.world
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    I don’t think anyone shifted right. They just didn’t want whatever it was that Harris was selling.

    • shoulderoforion
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      dude, if they voted right, they shifted right, that’s what the word shifted means

      • @solrize@lemmy.world
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        Shifted right means their policy preferences moved right. That is not the entirety of why someone votes a given way. Some probably did shift right. Others may have thought Trump had better hair. It’s an analog world and you have to dive into the weeds to understand things. You can’t look at one number and think it explains everything.

    • @BadmanDan@lemmy.worldOP
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      Ummm, yes they did. Latino male turnout went up 1%. More of them voted this election than 2020. Which means they shifted right.

      • The percentage of all Latino voters going up between 2020 and 2024 doesn’t necessarily mean there was more turn out from Latinos; if the voter demographics have shifted between 2020 and 2024 so that Latinos make up 1% more of the population, then they are still turning out at the exact same per capita rate as before, as a group.

        Which sounds like a short time, but that’s a small shift and plenty of people turn 18 every day.

      • @solrize@lemmy.world
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        Non sequitur, there are many analyses of the party change and they don’t all boil down to left vs right.

  • @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    I don’t think this is what you intended OP but we should be careful not to blame voters here. Trump and his enablers are to blame for what he does, not voters.

    That said, this is interesting. The shift to Trump among most communities was tiny, which could explain why most people were so surprised by this outcome. But why did Latinos shift to the right so much? That’s what I’d like to know.

    The shift in the other category was also huge. Are those mostly Asian voters?

    • @BadmanDan@lemmy.worldOP
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      I’m not blaming anyone, I’m just pointing out the actual data and asking how & why? For example,

      White turnout increased this election, but trump lost some white men & women support again like he did in 2020. And it appears Harris did bettter with white women than Obama, Hillary or Biden. The white vote didn’t change that much.

      Black turnout was slightly down, and Trump was able to make a small 2% gain from black men, which isn’t much considering they made up 5% of the electorate this election.

      As for the “other” demo. It’s every other ethnicity, but none of them are really big enough to have really big impact unless a specific state has a very large percentage of them and they all go overwhelmingly one way.

      So I’m just saying, the only big outlier I see is the Latino vote. Which shifted HUGE for trump, and it appears that’s what won him the election. And I’m asking is that true? And if so, why? Compared to other demos.

  • shoulderoforion
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    After Donald Trump called every stripe of Latino, rapists and murderers, publicly, often and loudly, More Latinos voted for Donald Trump in this past election than have ever voted for any Republican candidate in any American election ever. Spin it any way you like.

    • @___@lemm.ee
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      People keep claiming this without any context. He said a subset of those who enter illegally are the worst Mexico can throw at us. He never claimed all Latinos. This is hyperbole on repeat, and the left wonders why the right ignores everything they say about Trump.

      It’s basically frustration based propaganda at this point. Don’t know if you recognize it.

      • “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” - Dementia Felon trump

        I guess it’s OK what he said because, hey, they aren’t all bad…

    • @BadmanDan@lemmy.worldOP
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      It appears that’s what won him the election. Yes turnout was down, but the demo percentages from 2020 to 2024 are not that much different outside of Latino voters.

      And I must ask? How did Trump pull this off? And would Kamala have won without the Latino rightward shift?

      • @iii@mander.xyz
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        It appears that’s what won him the election

        There’s hundreds of “what if” imagined scenario’s that would end up with a different result.

      • shoulderoforion
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        Donald Trump doubled (+100%) the black vote he received in 2020. Across the board minorities saw change in putting Trump back in the big seat, as apposed to the disaster he will bring to them, and their families. People went through the pandemic, only to be hit with what’s felt like the largest peacetime inflation, which was not handled by the Biden administration. Normal people don’t care about economic numbers when their paying 30-50% more for milk, eggs, bread, and rent. When faced with more of the same with no real enumerated plan to get better, and back patting, they voted for different, come what may. You know which minority group didn’t break right, Jews (+5% 3.5% being the margin of error).

        • socsa
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          Biden handled Trump’s inflation expertly though. Everyone in 2021 said we would go through a recession, and we got a soft landing instead. And groceries are not 30% more expensive. They are around 15% above 2019 prices, not even that far out from historical inflation rates.

          Trump won because of economic gaslighting and you and half the people on the internet still repeat these lies.

        • @BadmanDan@lemmy.worldOP
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          Trump gained 2% of black men, and lost 2% of black women. He made virtually no gains with black voters.

          He gained literally 1% of them. I don’t know where this narrative of trump making massive gains with black people is coming from. All the data suggest at best, a very small gain from 2020 compared to the enormous gains he received with Latinos.

        • @The2b@lemmy.vg
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          “which was not handled by the Biden administration”

          This is just plainly false. The Biden administration handled the global inflation crisis better than any other G7 country in the world. Not only did we have the lowest rate of inflation across the G7 countries, ours ended sooner than any of them as well.

    • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      I used to joke that America is a terrible place, full of narcisists, liars, and assholes.

      Trump isn’t the cause of this. He’s just exposed how much those jokes are based on reality, and are no longer jokes.

      He’s brought to the forefront our worst qualities, and confirmed the fact that no matter how much progress America has made, we’re all still just a bunch of racists and assholes. And this time it’s not a joke. It’s confirmed.

  • Nougat
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    I prefer to blame stupid racist people instead of ethnic groups.

  • @Krono@lemmy.today
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    Your narrative is that Latinos “shifted right” but I think this is a false framing- it was the Biden/Harris administration that shifted hard right on its proposed immigration policies and it left many Latino voters feeling politically abandoned.

    Look at the Democrats’ 2024 immigration bill- it is deportations, immigration quotas, and building the wall - while including nothing “left of center” such as amnesty. It is literally a Trump 2016 wishlist.

    • Monkey With A Shell
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      So the solution to not liking the democrat shift right is to join in with the side off the scale right? I’m not following the logic there…

      • @Krono@lemmy.today
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        I’m not proposing a “solution” here, but the logic is obvious: as the Democratic Party moves to the right, their traditional base becomes more alienated and less incentivized to vote.

        • Monkey With A Shell
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          I didn’t mean that you where, but if the Latino population shifted their votes more R this year it seems an odd explanation that they where offended by the democrats shifting right on policies. If that was the case then why would they go in with people who are even more to the right?

          I think this whole question needs another field to it for the turnout difference. It may be (not to keep picking on Latinos but) they made up 5% in 2020 and 6% in 2024, but is that of all eligible voters, or of those that actually showed up? If 1/2 showed up last time and 1/3 did this time, but the ones who showed up where the more conservative portion then it would look like they ‘shifted’ right, but it wouldn’t be real.

      • @peppers_ghost@lemmy.ml
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        Why go with republican-light if the real thing exists? Catering to the center and right wing as Democrats is off-putting to basically everyone except libs

      • @Fondots@lemmy.world
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        A lot of Latinos are fairly conservative people, a lot of them are strongly Catholic with all of the baggage that comes with it, etc.

        Basically the only major policy reason they ever leaned towards the democrats is immigration, so with the Dems going further right on immigration it makes a lot of sense for some of them to be jumping ship

      • Populist messaging is popular because it acknowledges that people are suffering and offers easy “solutions” to it.

        Most folks don’t actually want to hear the details, they’re both busy and don’t fucking understand it without the benefits of a educational system that has been systemically destroyed for decades.

        Trump said he’ll fix the economy and blamed Biden, Harris wanted to pretend that the lines went up so things were good because she was effectively burdened as an incumbent candidate.

        Harris decentivized her base of support by chasing Lucy’s football of Republicans that aren’t fucking fascists, going after the Cheney votes of all fucking things, Trump siphoned votes from people that don’t quite know how to fix the problem but know there is a problem.

        You can point to Harris’s specific policies all you want, the people you need to get to the polls and vote for you don’t know about them because they’re boring.

    • @BadmanDan@lemmy.worldOP
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      This literally makes no sense. That immigration bill was bipartisan. And if Latinos felt Dems shifted to far right (which is laughable if you actually look at the policies), why would they vote even further right? THAT MAKES NO SENSE!

    • @njm1314@lemmy.world
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      I think you’re trying to force a narrative on to this that doesn’t exist. You’re assuming that many of these Latino voters are against harder immigration policy. Polls are telling us the opposite. Poles are telling us that a lot of these Latinos that voted for Trump want this. They didn’t think Biden was too strong on immigration they thought he was too weak.

    • @pyre@lemmy.world
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      wow, you answer one question about abortion by saying immigrants are rapists and suddenly people feel abandoned. tsk tsk.

    • Jake Farm
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      15 million of them. That is a staggering number.

      • @would_be_appreciated@lemmy.ml
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        15 million of them. That is a staggering number.

        It’s also not an accurate number. The official count for Biden in 2020 was about 81.3 million (found many places online, but the official one is a good choice) and the unofficial count for Harris by AP so far is about 74.3 million. That’s about 7 million, which is less than half of what you claimed.

        People have got to stop just posting straight up false information. If you don’t know, don’t post.

          • @njm1314@lemmy.world
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            No, if you said it a week ago it would be outdated. The fact that you’re still saying it is what makes it false. As you point it out new information is available. You’re just using old information still.

            By comparison if I wrote a book in the 1600s about the medical necessity of leaching, that would be outdated today. If I wrote a book about the medical necessity of leaching in 2024 that would just be false.

            • Jake Farm
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              I didn’t write a book or claim to be an authority on the subject. I stated what I remember on a subject I had read an article about 2 weeks ago.

            • Bilb!
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              But they still use leeches! Because your hypothetical example is imperfect I’m afraid I’ll have to dismiss everything you said and go with the old, inaccurate numbers. What a shame.

          • @would_be_appreciated@lemmy.ml
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            We both know the reasonable way to interpret your post, and the way nearly everybody would interpret it, is that that’s the current or final count. It’s also outdated to say 74 million fewer people voted for Harris, but at one point, that was in fact the count. But it’s more than outdated - it’s misleading to the point of being factually inaccurate to any observer.

            I can’t believe instead of being like “oh shit, I made a mistake, my bad, I better think for a second about this in the future” you’re going to try to justify it. Whatever, that’s social media at this point I guess. Surely I’m not the problem, says everybody feeding misinformation in a giant circle. I thought Lemmy might be better, but it’s just not. Thank you for convincing me to finally give all social media up.

            • Jake Farm
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              I didn’t know it was outdated at the time. I don’t constantly check and double things I read in passing to see if it has been updated. I am not a professional in the field.