• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    When Trump won PA he won. The one state where we know people stayed home because of Gaza was Michigan and it would have caused a win for Trump if they had gotten to that point. But Michigan effectively didn’t even get a chance to count because Pennsylvania’s electoral votes put Trump over the line on their own.

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      5 hours ago

      There are many ways she could have won with modest gains in other states.

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        5 hours ago

        Realistically they had to defend PA. Georgia and North Carolina were always a long shot and the only way the Democrats could survive losing Pennsylvania. PA landed Trump his 270th EC vote.

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          4 hours ago

          That’s timing that has nothing to do with vote distribution.

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            3 hours ago

            It’s electoral vote math. PA filled the exact amount they needed. None of the actual swing states mattered if PA went red. And I say actual swing states because Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida were only swing states on entertainment outlets cosplaying as news. On the inverse, the Democrats didn’t have a path to victory without Pennsylvania. There just weren’t enough other Electoral College votes available.

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              3 hours ago

              Florida was not a swing state do you even remotely know what you’re talking about?

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                It was to some people. That’s kind of my point. The news played around with all these maps but polling never justified doing so. It was always Pennsylvania. For the Democrats and Republicans.

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                  2 hours ago

                  It was to dumb people who don’t know anything about politics and should not be use in a real discussion about realistic pathways to the White House. That’s my point.

                  It belongs in the same discussion as people who called Virginia a swing state aka delusional republicans living in 2004.