I legitimately did not believe it was possible for this to happen. There’s always a hateful minority but I believe people as a whole are good. How did this happen?

  • Erasmus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    NPR was just discussing this a few minutes ago.

    The Democrats put the majority of their push behind abortion thinking that would be the turn out vote and it didn’t seem to be.

    More people voted for Trump because of the economy based on exit polling and (surprisingly) more women voted for him this time as well.

    There was also more votes coming from younger people who hadn’t been through a recession before and were just basically voting ‘opposite party’ because they were tired of their money going nowhere. The voting trend was something that had been seen in several other countries recently.