• SatansMaggotyCumFart
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    6 months ago

    Trump got 56.1% vs Harris’s 43% in 2024.

    That means nearly every other person isn’t Republican.

    That’s pretty purple.

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      6 months ago

      By that logic, every state is a purple state and the classification isn’t useful anymore.

      Instead, the criteria that actually matters is the degree of uncertainty about which side of the 50% mark it’ll fall on in any given election. Florida is no longer all that uncertain.

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        6 months ago

        Considering every state to be a purple state would probably be good for Americans as a whole.

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          6 months ago

          So would ending the first-past-the-post voting system, which is what amplifies marginal changes in public sentiment to extreme changes in government policy in the first place.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah she lost FL by over 10 points. That’s pretty solidly red.

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      6 months ago

      33% of voteing age people in Florida didn’t vote. 37% voted for Trump, 30% for Harris.