angry but also disappointed

[tsuki_no_bara]

so that was an election. what is wrong with us! repubs took the white house and flipped the senate but it's anyone's guess who will get the house. (unless more results have been called and i haven't seen them yet.) on the one hand, delaware sent the first ever out trans rep to dc (sarah mcbride, and good for her), and new jersey elected the

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[amw]

I'm disappointed too, but I want to comment on your sentence about the demographics. The exit polls suggest that although Hispanic men voted in majority for Trump, black men absolutely did not, so I don't think you can put them in the same bucket. And when it comes to people who identify as having Hispanic or Latino heritage, that's a pretty broad group that includes plenty of white people. Given that white people (both men and women) voted in majority for Trump, the swing was unfortunate but not especially surprising. 538 have been talking about it since 2020 when Florida first tipped.

Another data point from my personal experience is the tech industry, where Asians are over-represented in the west (both East Asians and South Asians) and plenty of those guys are exactly the kind of anti-woke type who would vote for Elon's man. Some dipshit over here brought the election up with me at work yesterday and said "well it's a terrible result for us here in Taiwan, but if I lived in America I would've voted for Trump too because San

Oy

[simondonoghue]

I worked early in-person voting and election day in NC at the polling precincts. We managed to turn back the self=described "black Nazi" guy the MAGAS threw up as gubernatorial candidate, but the same "Christians" who drew the line at Robinson couldn't wait to vote for the Mangolorian. Jesus, what a shit show.