• Weirdfish@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    True, but remember “did not vote” was higher then either Hillary or Trump first time around.

    I was apathetic in 2016, I didn’t care enough to vote for her, or know enough to vote against Trump.

    I voted against Trump on 2020, and now I’ve seen enough I will vote for Biden in 2024, assuming he is the nominee. Otherwise, it’s another vote against Trump.

    My point is, there was a real disconnect back in 2016, and a lot of people just couldn’t be bothered.

    Trumps base has only gotten smaller, but the people who know and want to keep him out has grown. I suspect we will see both significant turn out, and significant voter suppression in 2024.

    • Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      God, I hope so hard that turnout will be good. I just worry that the more time that passes, the more “most” people will become complacent and forget. I’d certainly like to imagine that between Jan 6 and how extremely climate change has affected people the last couple of years, people are finally figuring out that they can’t just twiddle their thumbs and wait for things to blow over. Unfortunately, though, that’s something that will be shown with election results.

      • Jimbob0i0@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Smaller as a percentage of the active electorate. Biden also got more votes than any other candidate before him… but that’s not unexpected with a positive population growth.