• Lemmygizer@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You are factually correct about “30% of the vote in CA”. But I think you are misinterpreting the data. PEW says that in 2020 96% of people voted strictly along party lines. PEW shows 30% of registered voters in CA are GOP or GOP leaning. Which means whoever the GOP candidate is would have received 29% of the voter REGARDLESS of who the candidate was. And before you point out the 1% “gain”, Biden “gained” 6% over registered DEM voters using the same metrics in CA.

    (I sourced PEW because they were the first Google results that had the stats at the detail level I needed)

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      11 months ago

      That’s a fairly long post that completely missed the point of what I said while needlessly parsing data that is mostly immaterial to the thesis.

      The amount of time people like you spend trying to interpret polling data to support an unrealistic belief that things aren’t as bad as they seem then having the audacity to strike a pikachu-face as the extreme right continues to expand and the country regresses is embarrassing.

      You should go into politics.