Smelly election data: High numbers of Dems didn't vote for president at all???

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16. It's almost like candidates matter

Is anyone actually legitimately surprised that fewer people voted for the Republican candidate for governor who was a self described black nazi? Likewise Kari Lake in Arizona was a candidate who already lost and pulled the election fraud claim that wasn't believed.

And there were always going to be people upset with either the change from Biden to Harris in general or the lack of a primary, or that Harris was a clearly an unpopular candidate in 2020. While it's possible for a previously unpopular primary candidate later winning the presidency (Biden among them as his two previous primary campaigns didn't go anywhere), most weren't the sitting VP of a deeply unpopular president. Biden himself had a popular run as VP, the Trump mismanagement of covid, his absolutely compelling family story, and a great debate performance against Trump (building on the narrative of his performance against Paul Ryan).