That stuff is inarguably true, but it neglects a little of what actually occurred. It’s not illegal, or election-rigging to make up shit about your opposition or take a quarter billion dollars from someone whose product needs the protection of tariffs, or to enact those tariffs once elected. Most of the amoral, unethical shenanigans in which the Trump cabal indulged were at least semi-sorta legal. But the really illegal stuff came after the election.
Yes. Your non-voting cohort is so large it distorts any result.
You have no idea how hard it is to get non voters to vote. When I was still working, I worked with many young women who had never voted and they had all kinds of stupid excuses as to why they didn't vote. I finally convinced one and her mother to vote when Obama ran for president. They were Black women who really liked Obama. One day at our senior center, a woman told me she never voted in the Midterms. I wanted to scream, but I calmed myself and said to her friends, "Pleas talk to her." All of my friends vote in every single election, no matter how tiny, even if it's just for one little thing, like a once cent sales tax that's used for lots of good things, or one person running in a local election, but so many others for one stupid reason or another don't vote. It's not as bad as it was years ago, as a close friend of mind finally got her middle aged kids to vote when Trump ran, just so they could vote against him. Still, there are too many people who don't vote and too many people who listen to disinformation and vote for idiots. There are sadly also too many liberals who sit out elections because they expect perfection instead of simply understanding that perfection is a dream and one candidate is always better or worse than the alternative. Imo, that is probably why Trump won. Too many Democrats didn't vote because they were unhappy that the Dems didn't have primaries, so they didn't vote and let a deranged incompetent narcissist become our president. I even recall having a conversation wth a bright young man in Indy who had never voted. I gave him a little lecture, telling him that his vote was the only little power he had and he promised me he would start voting. I hope so. ( end of rant )
Australia is populated with human beings. Those human beings are like we are. They manage to get compulsory voting by making it the law.
I would argue the larger difference is our elections are always on a Saturday. I mean, it's not 1826 anymore.
Would we really be better off with compulsory voting though? Unless compulsory "education about the issues" was also part of it. Otherwise, you're just going to get annoyed people voting for whatever loudmouth promises the most shiny, free things.
Australians I know resent the hell out of compulsory voting. Because its compulsory.
Statistically this is true. So why when the 2024 election DEFIED statistics, are you so sure it wasn't rigged/cheated?
The exit polling indicated Trump won. It was clear around 9 PM or 9:30 PM from the exit polling alone (after I fixed my initial mess up in the calcs), that Harris lost. I remember bilby speaking otherwise, that we needed to wait. But the Exit Polling would have likewise needed to be corrupted in order to pull of the heist.
That's true. A more common reason I've found is the voting place the person complaining went to had a shit barbeque.
It did defy statistics with the swing states. It was a statistical impossibility that he would carry all the swing states. Exit polling reveals the voting statistics/age brackets/race etc. But this is based on 'votes cast'. If the votes cast were illegitimate (which has not been reviewed to any great length) then the exit polls would be wrong.
If that many illegitimate votes were cast and counted as legitimate, and no trace of them has ever been uncovered, I’d surmise that it was masterminded by someone a lot smarter than any bunch of trumpsuckers. They’d be a much more cogent, responsible and effective set of leaders than the bunch-o-clowns we are saddled with.
No, that was not statistically impossible. There is nothing in mathematics that precludes whether candidates can or can't win battleground states.
When elections happen, all I do is look at the male/female breakdown and how they voted. That gives you, in most times, the winner. It is quick and generally very accurate.
How in the world can the exit polls work if the votes cast was manipulated? The exit polls would be weighted towards what should have happened, not the conspiracy.