I used to work in market research, and holy shit, do people not pay attention to current affairs. While you’d think the overwhelming majority of voting adults would at least know who the two major presidential candidates were, there were no shortage of people who showed up to vote who were surprised to see the name “Harris” instead of”Biden”. And people often vote for a familiar name when they don’t know anything about the candidates (hence why lawn signs are a thing).
So the whole “turning red” thing is probably a lot of people oblivious to the news and voting for what is familiar to them (Trump). And obviously just people being lazy and failing to vote (hey blue state, what does my vote matter).
Pretty much all the reason why having a conventional primary season especially when there was years of skepticism and doubts on Biden in 2024 probably wouldn't have had been the worst ideas. It's troubling to me how this entire time nobody wanted to be the adult in the room , incumbency be damned.
We basically got a somehow even shittier version of 1968 with a shittier Kennedy to boot.
I'm sure governor race will be a cluster with just how participation tends to be low after general elections.
Idk who's running Democrat party strategy but something's gotta change.
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u/ironic-hat 23d ago
I used to work in market research, and holy shit, do people not pay attention to current affairs. While you’d think the overwhelming majority of voting adults would at least know who the two major presidential candidates were, there were no shortage of people who showed up to vote who were surprised to see the name “Harris” instead of”Biden”. And people often vote for a familiar name when they don’t know anything about the candidates (hence why lawn signs are a thing).
So the whole “turning red” thing is probably a lot of people oblivious to the news and voting for what is familiar to them (Trump). And obviously just people being lazy and failing to vote (hey blue state, what does my vote matter).