• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I don’t know if this kind of thing is captured very well but I wonder how many voted blue for other Federal offices but simply skipped President. I understand the general motivation behind “sending a message” and “leaving this one up to chance” but good Lord.

    This is like me refusing to “play chase” with my kid even though he’s running right towards the street. It’s annoying as fuck every time but the consequence of me “refusing to play” could be dire. After I save the little shit for the 10th time I punish him, but in a way that doesn’t kill or cripple him for life.

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      3 days ago

      I don’t know if this kind of thing is captured very well but I wonder how many voted blue for other Federal offices but simply skipped President.

      Trump won PA by 144,739 votes, but Casey is only trailing McKormick by around 40,000 votes, which may get narrower as all the ballots are counted. So I’d rate this plausible.

      Edit: In the other statewide races the democrats lost by even more than Harris did, so I’m not rating this plausible.