• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    5 million is a small minority in a country of 300 million.

    5 million votes means a lot when it’s a close election.

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      11 days ago

      Sounds like the Dems should have pandered better to them then. They had a billion dollars to find out what marginal vote block would give them the edge.

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      11 days ago

      Even if Dems won Michigan, they still lost Georgia and Pennsylvania. 5 million votes is a lot, but where those votes come from matter in our system

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      11 days ago

      Progressives are 8% of the voting population. So they are more like 27 million voters.