| Chrkeller said: Apparently I have to go simple because you don't get it. 1) liberals did fine in 2020 and even in 2022. They did poor in 2024. Explain how in 2 to 4 years the American population suddenly dropped in IQ and become dumber. 2) surveys/polls under represented Trump in 2016..... 2020.... and 2024. Distrust in accuracy of surveys and polls are justified. You have a literally nothing. Your position DOES NOT EXPLAIN the results of losing AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT. I cannot make it more simple than thus. And who won the election? Something CLEARLY CHANGED. THE QUESTION IS WHAT CHANGED. |
People didn't become stupid, they were stupid all along, including in elections where the Democrats won.
There's a sizeable chunk of Americans who blames problems on the current government, so their attempt to fix things is to vote for the other party. In states where there is a quite balanced distribution of Democratic and Republican voters, these swing voters get to decide entire elections. The way you put it, Democrats lost hard in 2024. But the clear results are actually just the consequence of a few tenthousand of votes in selected states, so it looks a lot more dramatic than it really was. By now it's also obvious in which direction this pendulum will swing in the midterms.
That's the explanation why elections go one way or another. Torillian already covered why there are so many people who vote Republican out of habit.
Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.
