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It was young men, especially Latinos, who broke hard for Trump. Not Boomers.

White college educated men are the only group that increased in share for Harris. Trump even got a higher share of women than he did in 2020.

Over a million people didn’t.

Talk to me in 10 years.

Leftists - the “don’t vote” kind - definitely dropped the ball.

“Look, I hate women, but I hate Nazis even more” - Boomer men

Ok.

I think you’re pessimistic and fatalistic.

Government typically happens on a longer than 4 year time span.

Because kids are addicted to social media

This is lemmy, it’s full of literal children

Drugs, in this case.

In your case, it’s because you often pretend to be dumber than you actually are, so I’m just playing along.

So you pulled the lever. End of thought experiment.

Yay! You made it!

Doesn’t matter. All YOU can do is pull the lever, or not. You can’t change who’s on the track. You can’t remove the trolley. You can’t untie the people or lift up the tracks. In this sense, the trolley problem is almost a 1-for-1 representation of voting (in a swing state, at least). You can pull the lever, or not. Those are your options.

And that is NOT how the trolley problem works. None of us tied anyone to the tracks. There’s no one else. There’s just people on the tracks, and a trolley, and a lever, and you. All of the set-up happened before you got there. You are only able to make a decision about the lever.

And you get to pick how much crushing happens.

That’s a complicated one. I think we can agree that in general, Republicans support Israel and don’t believe that Israel bears any responsibility for their genocide in Gaza, and largely either don’t believe there’s a genocide happening or are perfectly happy that it is happening.

Here’s an article from back in July where Republican leaders (not voters) condemn Harris for expressing sympathy for Palestinian civilian deaths: https://www.factcheck.org/2024/07/republican-rhetoric-on-harris-position-on-israel-goes-too-far/

About 30% of Republicans want the US to pull back on ceasefire negotiations: https://www.newsweek.com/poll-democrats-republicans-divided-israel-role-war-escalation-1977027

Trump is absolutely courting Jewish Republicans: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-09-05/trump-harris-israel-gaza-hamas-hostages

But I can’t find any specific poll numbers asking Republicans “would you be more likely to vote for Trump if Harris denounces Israel?” So I don’t have any hard data, just informed guesses.

Sorry, I’m not finding it anywhere. Mind re-linking it?

Tactics in first past the post democracies is indeed whackadoodle, but that’s the system we live in.

Not just to turn Republicans, but to depress the Republican vote. Speculation here, but I think it’s reasonable to bet there’s a large number of Christian Republican voters who will never vote for Harris but aren’t motivated enough to vote for Trump…unless Harris condemns Israel. If Harris gains 2% Dem votes from never-genocide lefties but Trump gets 5% votes from Israel-to-the-max Christians, she loses.

Because thats what the data have to say.

Gonna need a source on that, chief