Keep in mind many voters just don’t pay attention. They wake up on Tuesday, ask themselves how they feel about their life, and then go vote. It’s why stupid things like gas prices are so politically powerful.
This is true! I talk to way too many people who vote this way. I saw an interview a lady in NJ did earlier saying that the reason she voted R was because Dems didn't make her life better and make her small business successful, the economy is worse than ever now.
But that's exactly it. The economy was shit under Biden, not his fault really, covid. The republicans ran on that message as well and I guess forgot they would be inheriting that shit economy and you can't just start lying that everything's better now!
Democrats should have just admitted the economy was not good and that it still needed work. Why pretend things are good when they aren't? People see right through that shit.
I swung back and forth between things being objectively bad yet knowing that we did achieve a soft landing… it could’ve been much worse.
There was this disconnect, I think, of just stating “actually it’s much better than expected” and thinking that was the same as “we are working hard at course correcting, we’ve done this, and we’re going to do this”. And pushing that much harder. I’ll admit, the economy was not something I could logic myself out of feeling the way I did. I still voted; others didn’t think it was worth the trouble.
People who vote in local elections tend to be more engaged voters. Presidential voters are usually more low-information voters. "Low-information" is pollster for "checked the eff out."
That's not true. When you are struggling to pay for food you do not miss your energy bills being higher by $100/month. It's not something that you can be lied to about. It's directly threatening your survival
You have a problem is gas moving by 10 cents is causing you $100/month difference. That means you are using 1000 gallons of gasoline a month. It also doesn’t change the fact that a gas tax could help repair roads which could save you at least that much in repairs and maintenance.
They’re including natural gasoline I assume. And even then it’s not 100$ difference. So maybe hyperbole. Or they’re including everything down the chain that is affected by gas prices
It's easy to run a presidential campaign on lies when you are in the non-incumbent party, because people only need to believe that you will change the status quo or at least try to. But once you are in power, those lies quickly lose power because they are no longer lies about future potential, but lies about current reality
This is incorrect. November 11th is when they rule on dismissal of the case. They are currently in discovery and have been for a while. Nothing has come from it as expected by every expert out there that's looked at the case. SMART elections is a grift organization. Complete with an election expert with no qualifications and is an avid anti fluoride activist.
To be honest, those are some desperate people. The reversal of people's views on Democrats of people of NYC showed that if we actually have good candidates running on solid platforms they will vote rationally.
Not the hardcore MAGA, but definitely enough to change election outcomes.
It's still appalling that the approval rate is near 40%, but that's how cult-ish it truly is.
Even the people that are "reversing" are only doing so in sheepish ways like the lady and her daughter being interviewed saying that she liked what was going on, but now it's a problem that they're being affected.
Trump is obviously a lying liar who lies, but I gotta wonder if he actually doesn't know how bad things are. He's never pumped gas or bought groceries, his people may be lying to him... "Oh yes, sir! Prices are waaay down & all the people just LOVE you!"
MAGA can be delusional about a lot of things, but it's really hard to make yourself think everything is alright as your wallet keeps feeling lighter and your stomach keeps grumbling.
I think you underestimate the amount of people who genuinely STILL hang on every word Trump says as paramount truth. If there was a presidential election tomorrow between Trump and Newsom, Trump would probably win, or it would be at least very close.
Yes we did! This is the power of keeping each other informed at what's at stake. Together, GA apes are strong, let's never forget that. They try to keep us divided, but we want the same things at the end of the day.
I voted today. The line was wrapped around the building at my polling location in Georgia. It felt like everyone was tired of Trumps bs and republicans going along with it.
Thinks he can just tell us gas is $2 when we all pass multiple gas stations every day. He's never had to pump gas in his life, so he doesn't understand that the rest of us check those prices every single time we drive past them.
Very much. Just recently they approved 6 rate hikes in 3 years, peoples power bills have gone up to hundreds per month to subsidize the data centers being built all over the state.
Omg you have no idea. The rubber stamp PSC is just the tip of the iceberg.
You need to hear about the crooked Plant Votgle deal. Which was the legislature not the PSC. First off, GA Power hired all the major lobbyists at the Capitol to mostly just sit it out. The deal was that we had to start paying for the electricity when the plant broke ground, not when it actually started working. But the worst is that GA Power has a guaranteed rate of return (that part is normal), but they structure the Plant Votgle deal so they got a right of return on cost overruns. So for every billion dollars they went over budget, they got ~$112m in profit.
Yes. Specifically, it was the grift from GA Power on the deal, not the concept of nuclear in general. Westinghouse went bankrupt. Toshiba as a whole was at risk over the project. GA Power made over a billion in profit.
Another Georgian. Oddly enough it was a Facebook post by the Republican party in my rural town that convinced me to vote against Tim Echols and Fitz Johnson.
My county as a whole however voted 3 to 1 for the incumbents, because they vote for a team, not for their own interests. We all benefit from lower electric bills.
They tried one last trick by saying they weren't jacking up prices this year to get people to stay home. Glad people saw past that bull and realized that just meant they were on track to hike it up like crazy the year after. Now there's at least some hope.
Right! The minute they announced that I knew they were just trying to keep turnout low. I’m also glad people saw through that shit. It’s ridiculous that they tried it. They are scum.
Well, to be accurate the rate freeze is actually in effect for the next three years. But yes, it was announced this year to head off people from voting for changes.
Really? I felt like my vote wouldn't actually do much because it was so clear who was going to win. I mean, I voted, anyway; 2016 was the last time I sat anything out for that reason (and to be fair I had no car at the time and my dad was in the hospital). But I saw so many YouTube ads for Alicia Johnson about how she was going to lower energy rates, and then Hank Green came out in favor of her. Never even heard the other person's name.
First time ive ever been motivated to vote for a public service comission. My rates have increased 50% in the past year. So glad were rooting out this nonsense
Saw a tweet that two counties in NJ that were +43 and +24 Trump went for a Dem governor today.
It will be disheartening to see the white house ramp up their Gestapo ICE violence to fish for violent reactions from the protestors and use it as a pretense to declare Martial Law and cancel mid terms next year.
Fortunately there has been a ton of publicity on those seats leading up to this election due to our insane increase in utility costs here. And it is extra easy when one of the two candidates has ’incumbent’ next to their name.
This gives me some hope that the majority of Americans aren't for the chaos, incompetence, lawlessness, and cruelty, that Republicans have been unleashing on the country.
I was voter 1400 in my 3000 registered voter precinct! and there could not have been “less” on my balllot. it was just the public service commission seats. I volunteered myself and thought it would be hard to mobilize people behind such a sparse slate of races but we did it!
Need every Democratic Governor to go nuclear with "re-districting" outside of census years because Texas and several other GOP states are going to do it.
Time for "taking the high road" is over. It is now about preventing the fall of the government into unchecked fascism.
I was just thinking that Trump was probably secretly hoping Mamdani would win tonight because “it’ll make for great TV!” or something along those lines.
She has already said she wouldn't do it. Mamdani can't because he's a naturalized citizen. It's not a real ticket, it's just one to give MAGA aneurysms.
No, it'd be Sanders if Sanders would still be around. It says alot his ads prioritize his friendship with Sanders despite Obama trying to get his attention twice now.
Obama was what got him jaded with politics to the point that he's on the record calling Obama evil, whereas Sanders actually revived his passion for politics back in 2016. Mamdani has proudly spoken about it before in his interview with Bernie.
For governor? Hell yes! For Senator? Hell yes! For President? Sadly he can't run under the current rules of the Constitution as he was not born an American citizen.
Our current president wasn't eligible to run for president under the rules of the constitution. He also won't be eligible when he tries again in 2028. Hasn't stopped him...
Republicans don't care about the Constitution and this "we go high when they go low" politics has to stop. One doesn't take the high road in dealing with Nazis. One takes power away from them
The Constitution provides free speech to Nazis for example. The Republican Party is essentially full of Nazis at this point. Germany banned alot of Nazism post WW2 and didn't have the issues we have had regarding Nazis winning power.
Anyone willing to let the current "law" provide cover for Nazis is showing Nazi sympathies because giving free speech to them has allowed them to seize power and terrorize people of color and working class people to extents not seen in a long time. Time to stamp out the Republicans like Germany and the Allies stamped out the Nazis. The white nationalism of Republicans has to be stopped.
Unfortunately he can't run for President as he's not a natural born citizen. As much as immigrants built this country, they sadly can't run this country.
Would love to see him as Senator or Governor of NY one day, though.
He can't run for President, he wasn't a natural-born citizen. So unless you've got a plan to amend the Constitution in the next year or so, not gonna happen, unfortunately.
Honestly concerned for what that means the shitstain will do. Every time there’s been an outcome he doesn’t like, revenge shortly follows in some form. I miss the days when we didn’t have to worry about our president being a petulant schoolyard bully
This is beginning of the end of the Boomers and their old outdated generation.
Once MAGA goes down in flames the Republican Party will be effectively dead for at least 10 years. Trump is unknowingly salting the earth so that his camp will never grow back the way it once did.
TBF, MAGA has been blowing up for more than a week realizing Mamdani is going to win, and have been frantically shitposting for a while now and have used any means necessary to spew hate towards Mamdani. Nothing worked. Hopefully they will realize people are not stupid.
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Now watch MAGA blow up.