I am asking this as an outsider

[electric_blue68]

85. A bunch of factors (may be repeating stuff from other posters, not reading them)

I did this late last night and lost it b4 I finished it ggrrrrr

•People who didn't vote.
>"No Difference"? Are they that stupid they can't see the differences after Term 1.

>Because "Palestinians"? As IF drumphf returning to the Presidency was going to help them?!!!
[Subset] Harris wasn't "Pro-Palestinian enough!" See above!!!

>Progressive purists; "Harris isn't good enough!". Oh, FFS! And...partly thanks to you we've got it reaaaal good, now, don't we??!!!!
[ I swear that ends up "aligning with" the "let's let it get so bad, the people will revolt!" Yeah? How's that (potential [democracy forbid!]) martial law working out for ya, then?! ]

>The majority (though somewhat smallish margin) of [my group 😑🤬] white women still voted for him. Arrrrggggg!
[subset] those who followed their husband's lead on drumphf. More arrggg!

>More Latinos/Hispanics voted for drumphf this time. Wtf?!

>Seems some quite well educated people (ftom last election results) like authoritarianism. And still do!

And other than that....Unless...you were unfortunately suddenly in the hospital, had a sudden debilitating illness (but not in a hospital if needs be yet), or accident, your area was suddenly hit with extreme weather, family, or bff had a sudden serious+ emergency you had go and help, somehow you couldn't schedule around work, or babies [I sure hope that'd been an even smaller group then previously].

you had no excuse for not voting!!!

I think I covered nearly everything.
I made sure I voted (by ?2 -3 days) early so whatever sudden X factor might have happened on the last day would not effect my vote.