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I think piefed.social/pyfedi (which is slowly implementing support for all such objects) should get a mention here as well

Yep, the truth is it shouldn’t even be this close, but Kamala has moved significantly right in the last four years.

Actually, that’s probably why she’s winning. Because of the nature and makeup of the Electoral College, we can consider the Presidential election biased in favor of the GOP candidate.

It’s the only explanation for why they keep moving right after Obama’s 08 landslide

I’ve explained this in detail before, so rather than reposting, I’ll just point folks over to this, https://lemmy.world/comment/12409521

The Dem party doesn’t try to get landslide victories, they want to give voters the absolute minimum they need to win.

Well, I’m sure they would if they could. But see above - it’s not possible with the current structure. I’m still hopeful that we can get Harris elected, and then have a chance of getting the 127 DC states plan to pass - https://www.vox.com/2020/1/14/21063591/modest-proposal-to-save-american-democracy-pack-the-union-harvard-law-review

Which would allow Dems to pass the required constitutional amendments to address the systemic problems with the current, erm, system.

Pyfedi / piefed.social has a take on this that you might find interesting.

For example, pyfedi allows for anonymous voting, but I believe there’s a planned change (if it isn’t already implemented and live) so that folks with a low reputation (from too many downvotes) can’t use it. By default, comments and posts with too low a reputation are also hidden. This is handled automatically by the software, so no human moderator or admin has to do anything - if enough people downvote, the system enforces the consequences automatically.

Harris supporters were quick to declare Tuesday a win for the Democratic nominee, repeating that the early votes outnumber the margin by which Biden won the state four years ago.

Jeez. This is like hypocrisy at its worst.

Shot themselves in the foot,basically.

What surprises me is that these seem to be all on other instances - including a few big ones like just.works - rather than someone spinning up their own instance to create unlimited accounts to downvote/spam/etc.