Big ol’ asterisk on the 2020 election, though:
- Covid
- Wide action to change voting to get around Covid
- Wide belief among Republicans that Covid wasn’t real
- Ergo, wide movement against changing elections around Covid
For these reasons alone, using any election map like this from 2020 is outside any norm. What about the 2016 or 2012 map? It may look similar, but won’t be nearly as drastic.
Good point! I’ll see if the author has the same map for any previous elections.
Edit: So it seems like the maps were made as a part of a series by u/DustinGibson a while back. As far as I know, he has not posted any other elections.
For the record, covid was a real disease, but completely overblown. The measures were mostly not helpful, and targeted small businesses.
My father died due to somebody else believing the same, ignoring the guidelines, and spreading Covid to him.
So kindly shut the fuck up, yeah?
My grandpa also died. Stage four lung cancer, but he spent the last year of his life locked up in a nursing home. Funnily enough, he had his first shot, but not the second.
I’m sorry your grandpa died, and it was heartbreaking that some people died apart from their families. I believe they changed the restrictions in the UK to allow terminal patients to have visitors by 2021. But if they hadn’t restricted visits to hospitals and nursing homes, so many more elderly and ill people would have died from covid - and not just the people who opted to take the risk and see their family. It was an awful time for everyone whether you died or lost someone, had to shield, missed crucial time at school, lost your job or your business, had to continue to work on the front lines, or even just had to follow the lockdown rules. But I don’t think any of the precautions taken at the time were done so lightly or heavy-handedly considering the uncertainty at the time.
At least 7 million people died as a very conservative estimate. Some estimates go as high as 30 million deaths. It’s the 4th most deadly epidemic/pandemic in the last millennia after the Black Death, Spanish flu, and HIV/AIDS. And that’s with all the lockdowns, social distancing measures and a truly groundbreaking rollout of vaccinations. There’s nothing overblown about that.
As someone who voted blue, part of my motivation to not do it on election day was to avoid being harassed by Trump’s poll
watchersintimidators.I can’t say whether the conclusion you’ve drawn from the maps is right or wrong. But I can say that the analysis is probably incomplete. Because does that pattern hold out in other elections too?
Yeah, I understand that, and I’ve made the conscious decision to remove the commentary as I’ve realized my error. I am interested in how this pattern may hold up in prior elections. I’ll have to do some more looking.
I propose a new title to this post:
What would happen if every barrier to voting was removed vs what would happen if Republicans were allowed to implement all of the voter suppression tactics they can imagine.
Are you saying that if only in person ballots were counted, Trump wins every state?
Yes. State recorders typically divide votes by demographics in raw data, so this data consists of the ratio of red:blue votes for both of those categories of voting.
I highly doubt Trump wins every single state. What’s the source for your info?
The map is nonsense. Democrats take advantage of early voting for so many reasons, Republicans prefer in-person election day voting for their own reasons.
There are many more Democrats than Republicans, they just don’t vote as much. The map.could easily be labeled: what would happen if every barrier to voting was removed vs what would happen if Republicans were allowed to implement all of the voter suppression tactics they can imagine.
How are states with mail in voting counted? We don’t vote at a polling station (and it’s glorious) on Election Day. We typically vote well before hand. They just get counted on Election Day.
God if we get Trump/Biden or either one of them again as a candidate I’m going to throw a fucking fit.
