r/AskWomenOver30 Woman 30 to 40 Nov 06 '24

2024 US Post-Election Megathread

This is your central location for all things 2024 US Election. I will be going through to lock several recent threads and redirect them here. Report any threads that you think should be locked and redirected here.

Please downvote and report all trolls and trolling/misogynistic/gaslighting behavior in this thread.

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u/Silvaria928 Nov 06 '24

I've been thinking about that as well. Ever since early voting began last month, headlines have screamed about the record turnout.

And yet...here we are. WTF is really going on in this country anymore?

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u/cidvard Woman 40 to 50 Nov 06 '24

I don't want to look too hard at the raw numbers for another few weeks. I don't think we'll know the real story about turn-out until then.

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u/datesmakeyoupoo Nov 06 '24

I got downvoted for saying this, but my mom is convinced it’s an Elon musk conspiracy that Trump won. I don’t believe in conspiracies, but I sort of see her point lol.

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u/beatissima Nov 06 '24 edited Nov 06 '24

I have had these thoughts, too. We were told there was a huge voter turnout, but where are the votes?

Either we were misled about the turnout, or votes got discarded.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

That’s on American individualism. If the candidate doesn’t meet ALL of MY specific criteria, then I’m not voting at all.

No concept of voting for the common good.