So bullshit that this is still going on.
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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The US Empire punishing its former colonies.
would be nice if Biden uses his lame duck status to revert it. FL isn't much of a purple state anymore anyway
Biden has never supported any leftist policies. Why would he start now?
Is lifting the embargo on Cuba really a "leftist" policy? Didn't Obama try it?
Would certainly be a Leftist victory, arguing whether or not an action is leftist is semantics.
It wouldn't really mean that much since Trump would reverse that decision immediately.
Basically just giving Trump a free win with the Latino block in Florida for no discernable benefit.
Trump got 56.1% vs Harris’s 43% in 2024.
That means nearly every other person isn’t Republican.
That’s pretty purple.
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.
Considering every state to be a purple state would probably be good for Americans as a whole.
It's almost like every state isn't a monolithic political entity
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.
What about strange women lying in ponds distributing swords?
Maybe slightly worse than the Electoral College.
33% of voteing age people in Florida didn't vote. 37% voted for Trump, 30% for Harris.
The non voters already took themselves out of the equation.
Yeah she lost FL by over 10 points. That’s pretty solidly red.