Thank you for your insights, as they are valuable. I do wonder why so many people didn't vote, though. I know an election worker who said fully 10% of the people who tried to vote, who had a valid Voter ID card and a valid photo ID, were not coming up in the system, and thus not allowed to cast their vote. A few did provisional ballots, but many just left. And provisional ballots are not actually counted unless the race is close. She also said a woman came in bragging she had gotten 1600 people tossed off the rolls. I wonder if anyone is looking into how bad the voter suppression was this year?
Also, the press has become complicit and will continue to bend to the will of the people in power. We see them "obeying in advance." by failing to endorse Harris. But the Mainstream Media is dying - the eyeballs are elsewhere, and we are not there. The right-wing media universe has dominated eyeballs in many different ways. And all the big social media systems are complicit and mostly owned by right-wing billionaires, who allow Russian propaganda and lies to spread virally.
Elon Musk has data and algorithms to help him reach people. We have to hit them where it hurts. But someone with so much incredible power is hard to compete with. Scary!
Thank you for your insights, as they are valuable. I do wonder why so many people didn't vote, though. I know an election worker who said fully 10% of the people who tried to vote, who had a valid Voter ID card and a valid photo ID, were not coming up in the system, and thus not allowed to cast their vote. A few did provisional ballots, but many just left. And provisional ballots are not actually counted unless the race is close. She also said a woman came in bragging she had gotten 1600 people tossed off the rolls. I wonder if anyone is looking into how bad the voter suppression was this year?
Also, the press has become complicit and will continue to bend to the will of the people in power. We see them "obeying in advance." by failing to endorse Harris. But the Mainstream Media is dying - the eyeballs are elsewhere, and we are not there. The right-wing media universe has dominated eyeballs in many different ways. And all the big social media systems are complicit and mostly owned by right-wing billionaires, who allow Russian propaganda and lies to spread virally.
We need a way to catch up, and soon.
Thank you for this post with the great graphics and real data that is easy to interpret. I am sharing this widely.
I like your closing, with concrete strategy and tactics. Increasing voters in Texas💪
Elon Musk has data and algorithms to help him reach people. We have to hit them where it hurts. But someone with so much incredible power is hard to compete with. Scary!