• @tomalley8342
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    251 month ago

    Maybe they voted against the incumbent

    I wouldn’t be so confident about assigning such motivation.

    • @chiliedogg
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      11 month ago

      They haven’t been unanimous in the counties all those times.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 month ago

        So then the trend is getting reder with time then? I don’t see your point.

        It’s not saying 100% of people always vote red. But the majority have for a VERY long time.

        • @chiliedogg
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          11 month ago

          Yes. it got redder across the country this election.

          • @jj4211
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            41 month ago

            But the point, for this population and this meme, is that they have consistently voting in the same people and the results they have received are similarly consistent, and they keep voting that way.

            Yes broadly there’s been a “vote out the incumbent”, but this illustrates why that’s misguided, as it illustrates the different results of two states with consistent policies for each party.

            • @[email protected]
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              130 days ago

              Not even just consistently, the person accidentally made the point for them that they’ve actually gotten more red over that time. So they’ve somehow kept convincing more people to vote for them despite them never doing a thing to help them.

            • @chiliedogg
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              11 month ago

              When an entire country shifts away from a party, it means the party is doing something to drive them away. Trump is the worst candidate in the history of the country, yet he’s won 2 elections. Why is that?

              It’s because the Dems have abandoned the economic policies that formed the heart of their party and lost the working class vote they’ve relied upon since the Depression.

    • @HowManyNimons
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      01 month ago

      In that one case, they’re a pretty consistent electorate. The general sentiment across America and around the globe since the post-pandemic inflation crisis began has been anti incumbent, which is why we see a lot of changed governments and populist uprisings now.