From angry voters to an unpopular president, here is why Americans in traditional Republican areas turned to Democrats.
    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      2 hours ago

      I imagine that is what moved the fence-sitters, the apolitical, aka, the “center” and the “independents” - usually people that are extremely low-info.

      You combine oil prices and inflation and then: seeing donnie fussing over vanity projects like ballrooms, arches, reflecting pools and putting up gaudy gold shit in the WH, all while making 2+ BILLION in under 2years (assuming any of this broke through at all into the low-info bubble, that is) and I imagine that has to absolutely enrage even somebody mostly tuned out of everything else.

      • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        There’ve been a lot of poll results getting turned into articles talking about this. The overwhelming result of basically all of these polls is that the economy / cost of living is the most important issue, closely followed by the state of democracy. It’s consistently in the 30-50% range for both of them (percent of people who said that was the most important issue to them). The fact that “state of democracy” is a close second is heartening, and suggests that there might be enough outrage over what’s happening to drive some actual change, but we’ll see.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          Since conservatives always get around to politicizing everything, I’m wondering if conservatives don’t start agitating to have gas stations no longer put their prices on big signs you can read from several hundred yards away.

          Even the most low-info people that do any travel whatsoever are driving past signs that put the lie to conservative bootlickers talking about how we are a “golden age” and how they are working to overcome a supposed terrible economy that Biden gave them. The golden age has gas at $4+? Even complete dumbasses can usually recall that gas was not over $4 when donnie took office in Jan 2025.

          If the conservatives find a way to cover up gas prices and grocery stores are able to do dynamic pricing - two places where cost of living and inflation are staring most Americans right in the face right now as an everyday experience - they may be able to pull more shenanigans in the future.

  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    51 minutes ago

    Remember this election the next time you think, “independents and/or centrists are secret right wingers”

    We’re not, you couldn’t win elections if we were! I’m happy we all worked together to get Trump and his mooks out

    (voters are D 28%, R 28%, Ind 44%)