Gurgen Europe's had longer lived variations of social democracy but Europe has also suffered from pasokification for decades. And for the most part the response from the left (parties only now known as the "centre" in half these countries) has been to double down on managerialism and sensible-ism.
It hasn't worked well and it'd be great for Europe if the centre realised it needs to pick a side at some stage.
Looks like Trump is going to win the popular vote as well, doesn’t get more definitive and damning for the Democrats. In hindsight they should have held a short primary, Kamala was a not seen as a good VP so why did they think she’d be able to become President?
They chose the wrong candidate and despite all the celebrity endorsements which haven’t cut through to the electorate I don’t think they really got their message across. A lot of it was about Trump rather than what they will offer. She was part of the Biden administration so was always going to be hard for her to distance herself from the past 4 years.
Clrnc All of those about have certain reasons about it, but why and how did Trump improve his vote share with young Educated adults? Is it because of Crypto?
I wonder if it was because people didn’t want more of the same, incumbents all across the western world are getting voted out because people want change.
This is an extraordinary result by the way. It's extremely wild that a rambling racist over-bronzed sex-offending billionaire is going to get another go at the presidency because the Democrats really are that shit.
Gazza M we're already there imo, brown people and women voted in droves for someone who openly declared war on them. Then again the other side is just a little more shy about it. People are fucking idiots and the West is absolutely finished, that's the only thing you can learn from this or any other election
On an unrelated note what shitcoins are you buying.
Difficulty for American parties is they don’t have central coordinating structures the way you have in other countries. So at the mercy or personalities. But lesson for Democrats - this isn’t a parliamentary system. Don’t put up another woman. Doesn’t align with your values as a country.
Feel bad for folks. Praying you American based folks on the forum are able to adjust to the next 4 years.
I’d have always assumed that when the choice is uninspiring you’d get a low turnout which leads to the unpalatable candidate winning. Turnout in the UK for example, was pretty low.
Here you’re seeing a bumper turnout, which tells me that people actually want to vote this guy in enthusiastically.
goon Right, they're angry is what I'd say, and it's because they've been getting screwed for quite a long time.
There's a good left wing book called HINTERLAND from a few years back where a bloke from Seattle who's an anarchist goes on a tour of the "red states" and figures out first hand that the same people who are renowned to the rest of us for their hatred of the federal government are also dependent on subsidy because those formerly profitable agricultural economies are non-viable today, and nothing meaningful has ever replaced them.
Another election decided by immigration. Just odd how leftists and moderates refuse to accept it as a real issue.
RowJimmy Selzer is not "a respectable polling company." She's the most highly respected pollster in the industry. Which doesn't mean Harris will win Iowa. But this same release in 2016 was the one serious poll that caught what was about to happen, when everyone else was talking about a Clinton landslide.
She won't be the most highly respected after today. With 95% of the Votes counted Trump leads in Iowa by 14 points which means Selzer was out by 17%, that is unbelievable to be out by that much. These pollsters reputations have taken a battering in recent years.
goon Here you’re seeing a bumper turnout, which tells me that people actually want to vote this guy in enthusiastically.
Not just that, 48 out of 50 states have shifted more Republican:
He's got a hell of a mandate.
Dems stronghold are all down as well on their winning margin. This is really a game changing election. Plate shifting
I may be a bad democrat, but honestly people are idiots and constantly vote against their own interests. And they are so susceptible to fake news campaigns, Elon did a stellar job. With tools like AI at the disposal of the populists, the future looks bleak.
Kel Varnsen Another election decided by immigration
Decided by immigration, or is it just that the outcome was influenced by untenable rhetoric about immigration? As with Brexit, Trump's not about to prevent the wages of US citizens getting undercut either domestically or in the global economy. He didn't last time he was President either.
