What's schocking to me isn't as much that Trump won (I feared this would happen when I saw the polls going south for her), but that Trump apparently also won the popular vote.

Trump now got the presidency and the Senate, but the House isn't assured to turn red, too. Sure they're leading, but when I look at the map there seem to be many more light blue counties than light red ones which are still open.

Mind if I ask why you are surprised by the popular vote?  Biden has one of the lowest approval ratings in recent history, and Harris (fair or not) is directly linked to the current administration.  Almost 60% disapprove of the Biden/Harris administration.  Most people do not like them.  

That was really dumb in retrospect.

She will make up the popular vote once the West Coast is fully in but it seems even reaching Hillary's numbers is out of cogitation. The suburban Republican strategy was a complete failure.

A lot of us were sleeping. 

A lot of these same states voted to expand abortion rights, including Missouri. Florida's abortion proposal got 57% of the vote, and didn't reach the 60% required. 

I immediately thought of this recent video after reading your posts. What can happen when politics and intelligence/education/IQ collide?

Trump just pulled something equivalent to a razzle dazzle football play where it gets tossed between 3 or so players. The high turnout for early voters and the number of women voting should have sunk this for Harris. I'm still very much dumbfounded.

People who cared about her race weren't going to vote for someone with her politics regardless and being older wouldn't have made any more difference than it did with Hilary.  On the other hand, the fact that she is a politician from California probably did her no favors.  In the eyes of many it's the political equivalent of being a regular at Diddy's parties.

That reminds me, though, that I found the "if men don't vote for Kamala then it's because she's female" talking point to be a real negative.  It felt like they were going for some kind of emotional manipulation ploy while setting up an easy excuse at the same time.  They'd be a lot better off acknowledging and fixing their own mistakes.

And a lot of people live in Europe and are avoiding this thread like the plague.  I was mocked and laughed at via my Betting Firm analysis.  Where are those people now? Why so quiet?  Facts are facts.  We tried to tell you all.  

I'm honestly quite surprised, but I did say before that I'm not connected enough to truly know the feel and vibe of things.

End of the day, this result is just disappointing. I can't imagine how climate change is just going to worsen even quicker than it already are. I fear for me kids.

I suppose on my side the best I can do is to educate my kids to ensure they don't fall into this brain rot thinking that conservatives appear to have. It's affected ppl in my immediate family and I think this is just too much for me to want to keep contact with them.

To everyone in America: I wish the result was better for you guys, and I hope future generations will be better.

If you think Pete Buttigieg had a chance, a gay man from Indiana in the extremely religious America, then I don't know what to say, I would concede that probably someone like Shapiro had a better chance than Harris but not Pete and I fucking love Pete a lot more than I like Shapiro. Also I don't know why the think Pete's service record is relevant when America elected a draft dodger who talks shit about the military all the time, who highest ranking members of America's military calls a fascist, Republicans only pretend to give a shit about the military.

Biden administration tried to address the border with a bipartisan, right-wing border bill, which Donald Trump told the Republicans to block and they did so spare me that bullshit. Harris should have done more to differentiate herself from Biden because his government is the one in charge during inflation and that was a mistake on her part but I don't know how you can argue that inflation didn't play a massive factor in this loss and any Democrat would have had a tough time; Also I feel like you continue to ignore the selfishness and bigotry of Americans.

Almost none of Trump's policies addressed the average hardworking American, far more of Harris policies did, Trump insulted basically every person aside from the white man, millions of Americans know they're voting for a fascist but they don't care because they think this fascist will bring their groceries down. It's bollocks that Harris delved too deep into certain policies, she consistently moved herself to the right during this election, on the border, she consistently tried to appeal to Republicans, they almost threw trans people under the bus to try to get Republican voters, it was for nought.

All I'd concede on is that in hindsight either Biden should have stepped aside a lot sooner or there should have been a primary and it should have been an average white dude with charisma like Josh Shapiro at the top because American politics is more like a popularity contest now as well because even then it would have been an uphill battle, I am 100% convinced now that if it weren't for COVID, Trump would have battered Biden in 2020 as well. America has moved to the right.