News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:37AM (#42064883)
Looking at the numbers, it seems like apathy decided. Trump's numbers are equivalent to last election, but the Dems didn't show up by over ten million people.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by seanw444 on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:49AM (#42065090)
> Dems didn't show up by over ten million people.

It is a peculiar lack of votes, isn't it?

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by junto on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @03:40PM (#42068998)
Not really. The lack of votes seems to be in the younger “social media” generations. The lead up to polling day was very pro-Kamala and on polling day itself, sites like Reddit were a stream of “I voted Kamala” posts. Whether that was propaganda influenced or not is beside the point.

What it seems to have done is convinced a subset of Kamala voters that they didn’t need to go and stand in a 2 hour queue to vote because it was already won, which of course now we know to be very untrue.

People assume that the bot armies are only pumping out pro-Trump propaganda. However, they only need to convince the Dems not to vote.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by fuzzfactor on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:50AM (#42065112)
Yes, it was the non-voters who actually decided the election, and in only a few states too.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by usaar333 on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @12:02PM (#42065347)
They are still counting votes. Prediction markets have turnout at about 64%, which is more like 5 million less.

That's still historically high

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by DiggyJohnson on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @01:05PM (#42066493)
Sure, but Harris won’t come close to the 81M Biden got four years ago.