Comment on Why are Republicans struggling in Swing State Elections?

• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s simply because they are not paying attention. And I don’t mean that as a put-down, I simply mean that Trump has their attention, not the broader GOP, nor anything about the government. They don’t care about the GOP Agenda, beyond a few of Trump’s sound bites. Many of them have an inherent distrust of politicians yet trust Donald Trump completely.

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• Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Apparently a big part of Elons attempts at voter outreach for Trump were to encourage “bullet ballot” votes (only voting for the president and leaving everything else blank), which is also what caused some scare about potential voter fraud when the very large increase of bullet ballots were noticed. He had teams of people reaching out to “low propensity voters” and trying to convince them to simply show up and vote for Trump, not to worry about knowing anything else. So that actually worked in Trump’s and Musks favor as far as simply getting them in, but there was little consideration for the state that would leave the party in.

  (My personal bias would say neither Trump nor Musk give two shits about Republicans, or anyone but themselves, so Musk gets the position to further enrich himself and protection from investigation he wanted and Trump gets the same.)

  There is also the issue of the media, when a fox news or the like paints Trump as dogmatic savior, only he can save you, then that leaves a lot of people feeling like only he matters so they don’t pay much attention to who else they should vote for.

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  • BadmanDan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wow I didn’t know that. I don’t think a strategy like that is helpful for a party’s future. There’s so much more to government than the president.

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    • rezifon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Neither Trump nor Elon give a single solitary fuck about the future of the party.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  From what I’ve seen, most people don’t care about their parties “agenda”. They usually just hear about one of two issues and take a stance on that.

  A majority of the Trump votes, especially the ones that didn’t vote down ballot, were pissed at the status quo and voted against “normalcy”.

  They don’t know what sort of crazy shit Trump will bring, but they know they don’t want any more of what they have now.

  I’m not saying it’s the right stance to have, but it’s understandable.

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  • BadmanDan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean me personally, I’m not voting for a candidate if I don’t atleast have a good grasp of their agendas & policies. But that’s just me.

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You and me both, but I heard that all political posts on social media came from 10% of users, I don’t know how accurate that is, but even if it’s much lower, that’s still a large majority of people who just have “more important things” to pay attention to.

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