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mekka okereke :verified:

It's cope to talk about how billionaires changed the outcome of the election. Because it's making excuses for the fact that the majority of white men and white women, voted for Trump.

But...

* Black folk are *much* more online than white folk.

* Black folk moved further *left*

🙂🙃

motherjones.com/politics/2024/

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8 November at 6:01 | Open on hachyderm.io
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mekka okereke :verified:

This is like when people tried to pretend that Cambridge Analytica had a huge change in how people vote. Nonsense.

Black folk were the *most* targeted. How they vote didn't change.

Your granny was a Fox watcher before Cambridge Analytica.

Your granny voted for Trump again after Cambridge was gone

Everyone voted how they always vote. In 2016, 2020, and 2024.

What changes, is turnout.

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8 November at 6:01 | Open on hachyderm.io
mekka okereke :verified:

I had arguments on BlueSky and Mastodon, where Black folk and Arab/Muslim/Palestinian folk said, "I will never vote for Biden again." and people literally said, "They're wrong! They'll come around!"🤡

I'll never understand the confidence to tell people that they are wrong about their own intent to not vote.

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8 November at 6:03 | Open on hachyderm.io
mekka okereke :verified:

I've shared the math so many times, and people are still confused about it.

Out of 100 Black men voters, ~80 vote Dem and ~20 vote GOP. This has been true for the past ~40 years.

If 20 of the Black Dem men say, "I'm never voting for Biden again!" Then:
* turnout drops by ~20%
* GOP share goes to ~25%

It looks like Trump is gaining and becoming more popular! But in reality, Biden is losing.

Switch Biden out for Harris, and you see things float back towards 80%.

politico.com/live-updates/2024

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I've shared the math so many times, and people are still confused about it.

Out of 100 Black men voters, ~80 vote Dem and ~20 vote GOP. This has been true for the past ~40 years.

If 20 of the Black Dem men say, "I'm never voting for Biden again!" Then:
* turnout drops by ~20%
* GOP share goes to ~25%

8 November at 6:06 | Open on hachyderm.io
mekka okereke :verified:

No billionaire caused those Black men to say "I will never vote for Biden again."

Biden did that to himself.

Harris tried to win them back, and did a decent job! But she own-goaled in October chasing imaginary swing voters.

And fundamentally, she could never win all 20 back. Detroit yes. Dearborn no.

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8 November at 6:07 | Open on hachyderm.io
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