Where Trump got all those new voters

In my county today there are 0 ICU beds for the 18 day in a row. Very few are adhering to the order. There is 0 enforcement. After almost a month with the vaccine, we still haven’t managed to vaccinate all healthcare workers. I just went to the county health department web page, the word vaccine cannot be found on the entire website.
The state doesn’t seem to care about containing the virus anymore. I guess it’s anything goes. There are LOTS of brown and black people in this county.

I'm very sad about what happened with my home state and I have family there.

Why isn't WaPo also wondering where BIDEN'S "new" voters came from, as well?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14641126


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But trump is so awful it's important to understand what his appeal is too.

Finding and motivating fears in people is where he thrived especially where education is less. Note that Massachusetts and East Cost is an example of that. But oddly New York NY, a lot of the interior west, and West Virginia had less pro-Trump votes, too.

I thought the virus helped him in the election not the other way around ironically. People want to ignore the virus because it is inconvenient rather than following the science because that is hard.

The Republicans have always tried to keep working people right on the edge. Low wages, poor benefits, living from paycheck to paycheck, make people choose between food or shelter. Saddle students with crushing debt. Now with the pandemic, many families were really between a rock and a hard place. Stay safely at home, use up your savings and face hunger and homelessness, or go to work and risk getting very sick. The hunger and eviction seemed certain given McConnell’s intransigence and callousness. It probably looked like you had a better chance of surviving the virus.

thought they would have to derive data from Emergency Room intakes.....

At least on net I think that's the case. I get the frustration that the economy was ramped down without the government replacing wages. Other countries that had shutdowns replaced wages with the wage replacement rate being very high.

Trump had a ground campaign and did all sorts of things like marketing himself via letters about COVID-related checks, letters in food boxes that went out to people, etc.

effective at highlighting how he was really good for the voters he targeted.

Trump lost because Biden got nearly 60% of them (which is why I consider this WaPo "analysis" to be "fake news"):

In 2016, 129 million people voted Democrat or Republican.
In 2020, 155 million people voted Democrat or Republican -- an increase of 26 million.

In 2016, Trump got 63 million votes and DIDN'T get 66 million votes.
In 2020, Trump got 74 million votes -- an increase of 11 million votes over 2016.
Add the 15 million votes that Trump DIDN'T get in 2020 from those who DIDN'T vote in 2016
to the 66 million votes that Trump DIDN'T get in 2016 -- and you get 81 million votes.
In 2020, Joe Biden got 81 million votes.

In 2020, Biden got four million votes more from those who didn't vote in 2016 than Trump did.
Add those 4 million votes to the three million votes by which Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 -- and you get seven million votes.
Biden's 2020 margin of victory was seven million votes.

Analysis accomplished, WaPo -- you're welcome.


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