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Harris' candidacy has led to surge in Black voter enthusiasm. It could make a difference in swing states - ABC News

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Harris' candidacy has led to surge in Black voter enthusiasm. It could make a difference in swing states

"Enthusiasm" has always been a "flex" for GOP these recent elections.

Is that similar to a noise meter at events?

The enthusiasm equals 2 football fields plus 6 cubits.

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Harris's candidacy has led to a surge in my enthusiasm, and I'm an old white lady.
- Then what are you doing on Lemmy?!
  /s
  
  Well I could hardly stay on Reddit. Sheesh.
  
  Judging other people’s Linux distros, probably. Isn’t that why everyone’s on Lemmy?
- Tagged as Granny 😉
- A reminder that in Florida in 2000, Republicans were experimenting with these disenfranchisement tactics (roll purges, closing polling stations, convenient road blockages in cities, the works). They won that state* by a few hundred votes in key districts, and these dirty tactics became a mainstay for the party. And that was before the SCOTUS basically said "racism is over, these voter protection laws are unnecessary now". Every vote counts, especially where they've made it difficult to do so.
  Gore probably would have won Florida, and thus the presidency, if the SCOTUS didn't halt the recount - in large part due to Roger Stone, one of the biggest pushers of dirty tactics. There are a small number of people who have caused a great deal of harm in this country.
- *gutting
- What instrument is used to measure this?
  Is it tied to the atomic clock?
  Or whether the moon is in Virgo, with a salivating Aquarius?
  eta: lol, dogpile!
  Data?
  Anyone?
  
  if you're asking what mechanism could be used to quantify "voter enthusiasm", a poll of "do you intend to vote in this election" seems like a pretty easy and obvious answer
  
  Do you know what enthusiasm means? The article you linked has a number of examples of what data might lead someone to believe in the increased enthusiasm. Did you read it?
  
  Bruh. You posted this. Go figure it out.
lol can you imagine if her nomination leads to winning a bunch of states in the south that are considered “safe red” these days? That’d be wild. I know there are obstacles to that happening but still.
- Can you imagine Kamala Harris taking Florida, Texas, or (gasp) Alabama? George Fucking Wallace would rise from the grave just so he could try to obstruct progress a little bit more.
  Stop with these fantasies, I can only get so erect.
  
  Looks like Georgia is back on the menu boys! ATL about to ride
  
  Sorry, today's nut job racist are even more pathetic than when Shirley tried to kick their ass.
Fuck the polls, go vote
I've been saying this since Friday.
I have reason to think Florida is in play.
- I think all Hispanic Americans have to bring a translated "Projeto 2025" in front of the people in Florida. Some xenophobic Cubans in Miami want to pull up the ladder behind them. In the report, there is a focus on de-naturalization if they detect fraud (p. 144). Chances are they will twist it to prosecute people with certain skin colours in particular and MAGA doesn't care if you had left your country of birth 40 years ago or yesterday. It also mentions de-prioritize processing speed of even legitimate cases held by their friends and family (p.144).
- Wild levels of hopium.
  North Carolina maybe. Georgia and Pennsylvania again are going to be tough but reasonable to hope for.
  But Florida? Ronda won with 60% of the vote 2 years ago. Winning counties that had been traditionally blue.
  Florida continues to skew older and is accelerating in average age. Mass migration of retired Boomers continues to push the state harder conservative. They're on pace for 1/3rd of the adults to be older than 65 in a couple years. It was 1/4 not that long ago.
  Number of registered Republicans has recovered since the pandemic. Is now nearly 1M above Democrats.
  
  Oh dont get me wrong. Until I finish the work I have on my plate and can really dig into the data, its pure hopium.
  I was only able to run some very preliminary stats, but in the aggregate, a move in votership of 3-5% might be plenty. It was less of a difference than that which put Obama in the white house.
  But plenty doesn't matter; where plenty happens is what matters.
- What’s your reasoning? Seems like this is never gonna happen.
  
  I am still at work and wont get to this till the weekend, but I was running some aggregate statistics looking at '12, '16, and '20 at the precinct level.
  I have the data pulled, but I need to aggregate it.
  Effectively, I'm looking at demographic shifts and mapping them to outcomes. I have the data, I just need to do it.
I wonder what happened to "Blacks for Trump"
- He was appointed to SCOTUS.

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